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  • 2024
  • White Paper

Healthy Outcomes: How Employers' Support for Employees with Caregiving Responsibilities Can Benefit the Organization

By: Joseph B. Fuller
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity; Employees; Human Capital
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  • October 25, 2022
  • Article

Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business

By: José A. Tiburcio, Lino Miguel Dias and Robert S. Kaplan
Subsistence dairy ranchers in Central America struggle to stay afloat during the dry season when grass is scarce. Global life sciences company Bayer has launched a program to enable them to produce their own corn silage feed. The results of this program are helping to... View Details
Keywords: Sharing Economy; Innovation; Economic Growth; Poverty; Production; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Central America
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  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

efficiently as possible. Increasing the company's product line was a potentially quick, inexpensive way to shape a nascent market for processed food. It was also a means, Heinz reasoned, of building the brand. In the 1870s, branding was a... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Electric Mobility in India

its expanded production capacity of over 400,000 units. With 1,600 employees, the facility hosts two vehicle lines and three battery lines. Ather's success in the market, amid customer uncertainty, can be attributed to their focus on... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay

By: Jillian Berry Jaeker and Anita Tucker
We use two years of inpatient data from 243 California hospitals to quantify the relationship between hospital-level workload and patient length of stay (LOS), and its "spillover" effects across patient types. Patients are categorized as medical or surgical, and the... View Details
Keywords: Workload; Processing Times; Healthcare; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity; Time Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; California
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  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

Are Private Equity Firms Better Managed?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Improvement; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; United States
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  • September 2001 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Cafe de Colombia

By: Rohit Deshpande and Alexandra de Royere
Discusses sustaining brand equity after a highly successful commodity-product branding ad campaign. View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Brands and Branding; Advertising Campaigns; Product; Goods and Commodities; Colombia
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  • June 2000 (Revised December 2001)
  • Case

Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (B)

By: Brian J. Hall, Edward Lazear and Carleen Madigan
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance Productivity; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Auto Industry
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  • January 1995 (Revised August 1996)
  • Case

Pacific Dunlop China (A): Beijing

Describes the predicament of an overworked Western plant manager in a Chinese joint venture. The fourth in a line of such managers, he must deal with the combined problems of an inability to delegate, different customs and practices, and difficulties in information... View Details
Keywords: Production; Joint Ventures; Management Skills; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Manufacturing Industry; Beijing
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Radiator Shells - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next Radiator Shells ca. 1937 Pontiac Motors Division Photographer unknown Radiator Shells that will... View Details

    Christina Melas-Kyriazi

    Christina joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2021, where she focuses on early-stage investments in fintech and commerce.   Christina was previously Head of Product for Consumer Foundations at Affirm, where she led a team of View Details
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    Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog

    learn through the startup they are working on, but through the 19 other startups in the course. Taking the perspective that there is more to just “build it and they will come”, the course will explore four modules: Getting To Product... View Details
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    Smokestacks at the Ford Rouge Plant - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next Smokestacks at the Ford Rouge Plant ca. 1936 Ford Motor Company Photographer unknown The conveyors... View Details
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    Electrical factory of Moscow - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next Electrical factory of Moscow ca. 1931 Amtorg Company Photographer unknown The great electrical... View Details
    • Career Coach

    Erika Osterling

    Transportation (General Management, Services, Business Operations, Product management, Supply Chain, Expat), Cameron, Avery Dennison, PepsiCo (Marketing and Sales Strategy) View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Oil & Gas; Energy; Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing
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    Boston Manufacturing Company Records | Baker Library

    be known as the Waltham system. The Boston Manufacturing Company records contain administrative material, financial records, correspondence, and labor and production records of the Waltham-based textile firm founded in Waltham,... View Details
    • Web

    Tulsi Patel | MBA

    to create a positive impact in the world. Tech areas of interest: Social Impact Tech & Startups, Product Management, Education, AI/ML, Consumer Technology Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: As one of the... View Details
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    The Experience | Information Technology

    online meetings, the HBS Live Online Classrooms let you interact with learners in amazing ways. High-definition LED screens and directional speakers instantly orient you—when a participant speaks, you know exactly where to turn. The multi-camera View Details

      Hans W. Becherer

      Becherer rebuilt Deere & Company, following the financial farm crisis of the 1980s, into a diverse, global competitor. In 1998, revenues from outside the United States accounted for approximately 25% of Deere & Company sales. Becherer so successfully... View Details
      Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

        Camille Dreyfus

        Celanese Corporation showed a profit every year after 1925 with its breakthrough year coming in 1939. The company grew by 700% from 1929-1939. By 1940, Dreyfus held 233 patents in the U.S., most of which were concerned with the production... View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial