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  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

does reopening look like and can we afford it? Throughout the crisis, restaurants and regulatory authorities have discussed game plans for reopening. Prominent features of these plans include reconfiguring floor plans to enable physical... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 16 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

reconfigured its internal units around customers and markets. Q: Obviously, this process involves substantial changes in the way companies do business. What can executives and managers do to motivate employees and ease the transition for... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

of what is possible. Engineers can reconfigure their systems to wring the best performance possible out of the available technology. Think about the computer industry. In its early days, you simply couldn't exist as a specialist provider.... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

enterprise which, in turn, could start to reach out towards other nationalities. During these years also Unilever's strategic thinking became more focused, with an emphasis on reconfiguring the geographical basis of its business. This was... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • Research & Ideas

8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End

Stadium (with 85,600 seats) was reconfigured into Turner Field, capacity 50,000, over a period of seven months and a cost of $200 million. The retrofit worked well for 20 years, when the site served as home to the Atlanta Braves baseball... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Sports
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

High Honors

after it was reconfigured following a merger, Barford then took up the reins of Valleydene Corporation Limited, a family-run holding company that has a majority interest in GSW and also oversees warehouse facilities, oil and gas... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

retailers will need to reconfigure as vast spaces become unproductive. The most obvious victims so far of this shift are music, video, and book retailers—these categories are virtually nonexistent outside the Internet channel. Barnes... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

“Some companies have reacted [to the spread of coronavirus] by laying off staff and closing their doors, hunkering down and waiting for the storm to pass. Others have decided to pivot. They've come up with innovative ideas of how to retool or View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Business World Gone Global

a day, the competitiveness and sophistication of international commerce have increased enormously. In the profiles that follow, five members of the Class of 1973 share their secrets for success in today's dramatically reconfigured global... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

art processes better models for knowledge work than more rules-based, scientific processes. The key to understanding these similarities is something we call cheap and rapid iteration. The Cost Of Getting It Right The cost of iteration—the cost of View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Breakthrough International Negotiation

payoff is the ability to reconfigure any landscape in ways that make agreement possible that wasn't possible before." - Margie Kelley by Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant (Jossey-Bass) View Details
Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Welcome to the Future

reconfigured (as in the rendering below of Batten’s second floor) to accommodate large group discussions or small-team collaborations, with the professor presiding from the center of the oval classroom. Each hive is slightly different in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Construction of Buildings; Construction
  • 28 Sep 2018
  • News

Pushing Progress at Panasonic

transformation, Bloomberg reports, Higuchi is tasked with reconfiguring company culture: During his first week back at Panasonic, Higuchi got a culture shock of his own. At an internal meeting, he took a random chair, only to be informed... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Great Priority Reset

future, airlines will have to make some major operational moves, from reconfiguring cabins to examining the economics of certain routes. Those traveling for pleasure, meanwhile, aren’t waiting—and they are driving change at the airport.... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2019
  • News

Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

to catch up and reconfigure your efforts as a business person, as an owner, as an entrepreneur. “I think not only the learning part helps, but it's also the connections and the networks you do, because every time you come, you meet... View Details
  • 29 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

Another explanation is that modern IT allows companies and coalitions to explore radically different organizational forms — such as so-called virtual corporations — and build whichever forms are most productive. Still, what is it about IT that is allowing this radical... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

Instead, he says, it will be able to react to shifting customer needs, with lines of wheeled Baxters and Sawyers reconfigured on the fly, based on data from both the production process and market performance. This “agile factory,” he... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • Web

Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

as a Leadership Fellow in 2009 and remained for three more years. “I worked under then Lincoln Center President Reynold Levy, the human embodiment of genius and sheer will,” says Shilla. Under his leadership, Lincoln Center not only View Details
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