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  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Enron’s Legacy

quarterly earnings reports, reflecting the complexity of corporate restructurings and other long-term growth strategies. There are important implications of these differences for public company boards, even though they View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance
  • 08 May 2015
  • News

Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness

its “industrial Internet,” an open global network of machines, data, and people that provides analytics and designs solutions to optimize its customers’ complex operations. “The paradigm is not displacement and replacement,” says Iansiti,... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • News

On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)

When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly View Details
Keywords: retail; customer service; supply chain management; career experience; Retail Trade
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment

orders. Kiva’s distribution center automation technology simplifies operations and reduces costs while increasing flexibility. When orders are received, hundreds of autonomous mobile robots are directed by a View Details
  • Web

Doctoral Affiliates - Business & Environment

Ashley Palmarozzo is a doctoral student in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) unit at Harvard Business School. Kala Viswanathan Doctoral student Kala Viswanathan is a doctoral student in the Technology and View Details
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

specifics are determined lower down in the organization. Even if you get the plan right, implementing it is a whole other project. Some of Clark's research in the book deals with the extent to which the operating organization also has to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • News

Life Lessons on the Open Seas

to the program’s success, including learning how to think outside the box to solve complex problems, as well as developing strategies for marrying the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. He cites Professor William Sahlman's principles... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight

By: Aticus Peterson and Andy Wu
We study how learning by experience across projects affects an entrepreneur's strategic foresight. In a quantitative study of 314 entrepreneurs across 722 crowdfunded projects supplemented with a program of qualitative interviews, we counterintuitively find that... View Details
Keywords: Experience; Interdependency; Strategic Foresight; Crowdfunding; Timeline; Delay; Forecasting; Entrepreneurship; Learning; Complexity; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Development; Planning
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  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

instead, it has become integrated with the whole manufacturing process—David Upton But once that decision has been made, "sitting" is far from the operative word for IT systems, which require the same kind of continuous... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

Silicon Valley startup: “We want to bring a scaled-up version of the blockchain application to market by the end of the year.” From Baker Library: Blockchain is an innovative and complex technological advance, but what exactly is it and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

States has often turned to cutting-edge technology solutions to solve strategic and operational challenges. “Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs are skilled in industrial management and strongly... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

    J. Chadbourn Bolles

    Under Bolles dynamic direction which spanned 34 years, Chadbourn grew from a small hosiery operation with $500,000 in annual sales to an international and diversified textile and apparel complex with $68... View Details
    Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
    • Career Coach

    Kara Hardie

    Kara Hardie is an experienced healthcare consultant and an MBA/MS Biotechnology candidate. Kara spent four years at The Boston Consulting Group, partnering with clients across the healthcare sector on complex strategic issues. Kara's... View Details
    • 2012
    • Chapter

    IP Modularity in Software Ecosystems: How SugarCRM's IP and Business Model Shape Its Product Architecture

    By: Josef Waltl, Joachim Henkel and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Keywords: Business Model; Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Complexity; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property
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    • November 2001
    • Supplement

    Staples

    By: Myra M. Hart
    Provides information on the development of the office superstore concept, including building partnerships, creating the business plan, and recruiting a management team. View Details
    Keywords: Business Plan; Recruitment; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Operations; Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Complexity; Retail Industry
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    • 05 Jul 2011
    • News

    Driving Innovation

    Stewart: Helping brands navigate the complexities of today’s media. Photo courtesy Bonita Stewart What can a high-flying, high-tech giant learn about marketing from an industry that is about as nuts-and-bolts as you can get? Plenty, if... View Details
    Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 24 Feb 2022
    • Blog Post

    African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector

    your unique professional experience in the public sector at HBS? I have worked on some of the most complex operating challenges facing governments to date, including lack of public trust, deteriorating... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2010
    • News

    Eight Join HBS Faculty

    teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing... View Details
    • Web

    Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

    and develop a deeper appreciation of how legal systems operate and how to operate within the boundaries of legal systems. In response to increased student interest in private equity, a module of the course... View Details
    • 24 Apr 2014
    • News

    Managing the challenges faced by a local nonprofit

    Norm Merritt (MBA 1988) talks about using his management expertise to assist his local Audubon Society solve some complex operational issues. (Published April 2014) View Details