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- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
new product plans. Such decisions are either centralized near the top of the corporate ladder or decentralized and delegated to the top of a particular business unit. And the decision makers often depend on ERP software, which facilitates... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Jieliang Phone Home! (A)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Design and Levels; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-080, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
Versus Deterministic Explanations of Crowdsourcing Success" to "Patients and Caregivers as Sources of Innovative Ideas and Solutions." In addition to open innovation, a conference track was devoted to scholarship around user innovations—improvements made... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
and improve knowledge and skills regularly ." Robert Soloman observed that the problem is not universal in that "companies that follow a lean methodology, where the initial focus is on a Minimum Viable View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
highly-skilled tasks with and without AI. After establishing a performance baseline, consultants were randomly divided into two groups. The first group would “conceptualize and develop new product ideas, focusing on aspects such as... View Details
- 17 Jan 2024
- HBS Case
Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues
businesses today will need to lean hard on psychological pricing strategies to convince customers to overcome their reluctance to spend, according to recent research by Elie Ofek, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard... View Details
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
relationship caused her hair to thin. Breedlove found a product that revitalized it, and started selling the tonic, leaning hard on family and friends for labor and customers. “I was convinced it would be a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
discovery work to validate the problem or their target customers. While gut feel or personal experience with a problem can be a strong signal there is a problem to solve, without proper product discovery work you won’t truly know if you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
launch new products or programs, experiment with them, refine them, and even drop them. Digitally mature organizations leverage design thinking, lean start-up, and agile methodologies to power innovation.... View Details
- 09 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing
the same view, he says. Implications beyond universities While the study focuses specifically on academic research, it may also have meaning for other organizations, Duede says—those that similarly lean on employees for their ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
way. We’ve got to do this.’” They invested their entire life savings—$225,000—into opening the store. The store sold all of its products within four days of opening, forcing it to temporarily close. Earning $1 million in total sales, the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
values—and empower others to execute. Lean on others. We’re not talking about delegating to trusted lieutenants with similar backgrounds and the same life and career experiences. It means learning to collaborate with an increasingly... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
to the new digital context. ” Enthusiasts and advocates of the digital revolution would submit that digital transformation changes everything, from product design to how value is built and captured in the market. In some cases,... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
workplace. "Liberalizing Egalitarians" were those countries where respondents' attitudes toward gender were already egalitarian in 2002 and became even more so over the following decade (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, and Slovenia). "Stagnating... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without entrepreneurship is central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
including design thinking and lean startup approaches, that have given rise to some of the world’s biggest technology companies. But does the Silicon Valley mantra “fail fast, fail often,” which encourages early testing of new ideas and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
first time. Get help—don’t try to figure it out yourself. You will spend more working hours than you ever imagined learning how to navigate people things while running your business, fundraising, etc. Hire a coach or find friends with management experience and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin