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Kristen Jones
woman. My choices had to be built around our audience, not the product category.” While Kristen found retail interesting, she did not feel it was a lasting fit. “It’s hard to describe the feeling,” she says. “I knew I wanted to do more... View Details
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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library
labor problem in a hypothetical shoe manufacturing plant of the same name: workers were routinely leaving the plant 45 minutes early, adversely affecting production while the plant was struggling to fill its orders. The one-page case... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
on the individual level, or on tracing a line from the macro to the micro level, Higgins is taking a separate yet complementary path for exploration: examining large-scale organizational dynamics from the direction of individuals'... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
to make a concrete recommendation about where to draw the line between the closed and the open parts of an ecosystem like this one, but fundamentally, it is not an either-or proposition. Management should set smart criteria for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
"We remained profitable," notes Bajaj, "because we quickly realized we needed to restructure our product line and increase the productivity of our workforce." Through a... View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
Arnott put it, "Entrepreneurship is the motor that gets technology to market." According to Kamal Gupta, "Scientific research and technological innovations create new products, but the top line and bottom View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently businesses and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have joined forces to achieve their separate, but related missions. When these partnerships crossed the View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hungary: Launching Production (A) This case examines design choices in the construction of flow lines. Flow lines are a popular way of arranging production because they are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Patricia Barron
our approach to China, saying he could jeopardize our negotiations. I was often the lone voice pushing for line jobs for talented women for whom staff moves were the norm. Business is more productive if one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
rigorous research in areas with a clear connection to practice. For example, to study the conditions under which workplace transparency improves performance, Bernstein embedded Harvard undergrads on production View Details
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Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library
assignments. The first, an unskilled position such as a production line worker, sales clerk, or office clerk, familiarized students with supervision issues and customer-employee relations. "Our students find... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
Madrolly When Should a Board Encourage a Triple Bottom Line Philosophy? Respondents to this month’s column provided a resounding “no” to the question of whether CEO Satya Nadella should accede to the wishes of a vocal minority of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
committee's work will focus on reviewing and possibly refining the Class Notes production process; developing informative presentations that could be taken on the road and delivered through clubs; developing a more robust alumni database... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
an executive’s pay is in line or out of line with performance over a long period of time, like 10 years.” With its benchmarking, the model helps companies and their investors know if pay and performance are... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
the boundaries in financial services, the two giants have challenged more conventional banking mergers in which organizations merely seek to grow larger while remaining banking concerns." Crozier also sees the current merger trend as beginning to divide the industry... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
mortgage or with very little debt. Unlike in the United States, banks are also less on the line in real estate. We should always keep in mind that the Chinese property market was stagnant or worse (nonexistent) for 30 years after the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
the same time giving them cover against criticism by allowing them to point to "healthier alternatives" in their product portfolios. When entrepreneurs first created e-cigarettes and marketed them as a way to quit smoking, they... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
characterized disk drive capability. In fact, it had been HP's consistently superior capacity that had enabled the DMD to hold a profitable position. DMD's existing customers, high-performance laptop and desktop manufacturers, were not interested in the 1.3" model... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
right to have it," Mark explained. "But not much has been done to increase the supply and quality of the supply of water and to be able to economically allocate it to the right locations." Mark grew up on a farm and as a result was savvy from an early age about crop... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
Executive Education — typically contribute more than half of the total budget. But both units are vulnerable to economic downturns, and demand for HBP products and programs offered by Executive Education were projected to suffer from a... View Details