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Operations Management Reading: Forecasting

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Ann B. Winslow
This reading provides an introduction to forecasting methods. It includes a brief summary of methods based on judgment and a longer section on quantitative analysis. It also provides sample data so students can develop an understanding of concepts such as correlation,... View Details
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Wheelwright, Steven C., and Ann B. Winslow. "Operations Management Reading: Forecasting." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8042, 2013.
  • November 1994
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Hewlett-Packard: French Manufacturing Operations

By: Robin Cooper, Patricia Bost and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; France
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Cooper, Robin, Patricia Bost, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Hewlett-Packard: French Manufacturing Operations." Harvard Business School Case 195-120, November 1994.
  • November 1999 (Revised June 2011)
  • Background Note

Accounting for Foreign Operations

By: David F. Hawkins
Students are required to compute and explain the quality annual earnings per share figures and major differences between managing domestic and global operations. View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Globalized Firms and Management
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Hawkins, David F. "Accounting for Foreign Operations." Harvard Business School Background Note 100-024, November 1999. (Revised June 2011.)
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Technology and Operations Management (TOM)

By: Willy C. Shih

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as... View Details

  • 12 Jul 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations

Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Gary Pisano
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration

By: Anita L. Tucker
Operational failures persist in hospitals, in part because employees work around them rather than attempt to prevent recurrence. Drawing on a process improvement tool—the Andon cord—we examine three work design components that may foster improvement-oriented behaviors:... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Process Improvement; Organizational Learning; Behavioral Operations; Prosocial Behavior; Experiments; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry
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Tucker, Anita L. "Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-044, November 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
  • July 1987 (Revised April 1990)
  • Teaching Note

Operations Strategy, Course Overview

By: David A. Garvin
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Garvin, David A. "Operations Strategy, Course Overview." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 688-002, July 1987. (Revised April 1990.)
  • 01 Jul 2014
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Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency

Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Tami Kim & Chia-Jung Tsay
  • 2013
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Operations Management Reading: Forecasting

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Ann B. Winslow
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Wheelwright, Steven C., and Ann B. Winslow. "Operations Management Reading: Forecasting." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Harvard Business Publishing 8042HBH, 2013.
  • April 2008
  • Teaching Note

Exercise: Challenging Operational Assumptions

By: Frances X. Frei and Christine van Keuren
Teaching Note for [608128]. View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Performance Improvement
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Frei, Frances X., and Christine van Keuren. "Exercise: Challenging Operational Assumptions." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-129, April 2008.
  • 12 Sep 2023
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Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?

Keywords: Health
  • March 1974 (Revised June 1996)
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First National City Bank Operating Group (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Growth in the banking field has produced new demands on the "back office." Traditional management practices in check processing and paper handling operations have resulted in ten years of cost increases and quality loss. New manager of the operating group faces an... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Banking Industry
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Lorsch, Jay W. "First National City Bank Operating Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 474-165, March 1974. (Revised June 1996.)
  • June 1990
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Operations Strategy, Module Overview: Planning and Implementing Operations Strategies Over Time

By: David A. Garvin
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Garvin, David A. "Operations Strategy, Module Overview: Planning and Implementing Operations Strategies Over Time." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 690-090, June 1990.
  • August 1986 (Revised April 2007)
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Wal-Mart Stores' Discount Operations

Facilitates a discussion of the sources of Wal-Mart Stores' competitive advantage in discount retailing, and the future sustainability of that advantage. Also profiles the company's major diversification move in the early 1980s. View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; United States
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Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Wal-Mart Stores' Discount Operations." Harvard Business School Case 387-018, August 1986. (Revised April 2007.)
  • June 2017
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Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?

By: Nikolaos Trichakis, Dan A. Iancu and Gerry Tsoukalas
We study the inefficiencies stemming from a firm's operating flexibility under debt. We find that flexibility in replenishing or liquidating inventory, by providing risk-shifting incentives, could lead to borrowing costs that erase more than a third of the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Covenants; Risk-shifting; Inventory; Agency Costs; Debt Financing; Risk Management; Borrowing and Debt
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Trichakis, Nikolaos, Dan A. Iancu, and Gerry Tsoukalas. "Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?" Management Science 63, no. 6 (June 2017): 1730–1761.
  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
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AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT&T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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Gross, Daniel P., and William R. Kerr. "AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century." Harvard Business School Case 718-486, January 2018. (Revised May 2018.)
  • September 1987 (Revised November 1992)
  • Background Note

Note on Operating Exposure to Exchange-Rate Changes

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Describes the effects on operating cash flows of a real change in exchange rates. Describes different elements of operating exposure and includes illustrative examples. View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Fluctuation
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Luehrman, Timothy A. "Note on Operating Exposure to Exchange-Rate Changes." Harvard Business School Background Note 288-018, September 1987. (Revised November 1992.)
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Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor

This course is designed to impart to students who plan to become investors an understanding of firms' operations, and to students, including entrepreneurs, planning to operate companies an understanding of how to interface with investors. The course also... View Details

  • fall 1991
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Beefing-up Operations in Service Firms

By: R. H. Hayes and R. B. Chase
Keywords: Operations; Business Ventures; Service Industry
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Hayes, R. H., and R. B. Chase. "Beefing-up Operations in Service Firms." MIT Sloan Management Review 33, no. 1 (fall 1991): 15–26.
  • April 2006 (Revised April 2008)
  • Course Overview Note

Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role

By: Frances X. Frei
Describes Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role, a second-year MBA course that consists of three modules. The first module, Conceptualizing the Customer Operating, explores the operational challenges and opportunites of managing... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations
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Frei, Frances X. "Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 606-092, April 2006. (Revised April 2008.)​
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