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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
innovation adopted as well as inward-facing company concerns such as launching innovative products while managing an existing core business. “The second half of the course focuses in part on how a company’s... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
JOANN: Joannalytics Inventory Allocation Tool
By: Kris Ferreira and Srikanth Jagabathula
Michael Joyce, Vice President of Inventory Management at JOANN, championed an effort to develop and implement an inventory allocation analytics tool that used advanced analytics to predict in-season demand of seasonal items for each of JOANN’s nearly 900 stores and... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Machine Learning; Optimization; Inventory Management; Mathematical Methods; Decision Making; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Resource Allocation; Distribution; Technology Adoption; Applications and Software; Change Management; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Ohio
Ferreira, Kris, and Srikanth Jagabathula. "JOANN: Joannalytics Inventory Allocation Tool." Harvard Business School Case 621-055, September 2020. (Revised March 2022.)
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" developments like poor weather or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
AI at Work | Working Knowledge
right even when it’s wrong . Tools can be persuasive enough to convince users to question their own conclusions. Productivity gains can help managers focus on what matters . A study of software coders found that AI didn’t just help them... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many factors—some of them a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
partnership that has remained strong through three start-ups. Dubinsky and Hawkins built Palm Computing and made the PDA the most rapidly adopted consumer electronics product at that time. "The PalmPilot... View Details
- November 2008
- Case
Syngenta International AG: Tropical Sugar Beet
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Alwin R. Kopse
Syngenta has developed a new sugar beet crop especially useful to tropical climates that enable double cropping to take place and provide both food and energy from the soil. Thus both the governments of Colombia and India are enthused about the new technological... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
the high-tech industry? Growth. I had learned as a banker [at Philadelphia National Bank] that most career opportunities are presented by areas that are growing quickly, and the personal computer industry fit that description. I was also attracted to the View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
multidivisional enterprises that have diversified into related product lines. The present book aims to fill in this gap in the literature by adopting a coherent approach to this elusive subject. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
rules of commerce: Instead of selling the “means” (their products and services), they adopt innovative revenue models to pursue “ends” (actual outcomes). They show that paying by the pill, semester, food... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- May 2006
- Case
Esterline Technologies: Lean Manufacturing
By: Richard L. Nolan, Karen A. Brown and Subodha Kumar
Raises the issue of the appropriate role of IT in lean manufacturing. Most large manufacturing companies have implemented ERP IT systems to support lean manufacturing practices. The Kerry plant of Esterline Technologies attempted an ERP implementation and then... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Technological Innovation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Production; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry
Nolan, Richard L., Karen A. Brown, and Subodha Kumar. "Esterline Technologies: Lean Manufacturing." Harvard Business School Case 906-417, May 2006.
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
explicitly a function of current product offerings. The setting illustrates firms' dual incentives at work: A firm better differentiates products under a looser standard but may want to induce a tighter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
demand, and on pleasing the best customers - can ultimately weaken a strong firm. In The Innovator's Dilemma, Christensen shows how significant breakthroughs in products and services are often initially rejected by mainstream customers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
other economic environments. Productivity Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities Author:Kristina Steffenson McElheran Publication:Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
acquisition and brand-building, products and services that are often free or deeply discounted, and abundant funding provided by exuberant capital markets."The problem," he says, "is that everyone understands the strategy,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
corporate practices, and the persona of the expert witness. This paper describes an actor-network coming into being and shows how credible institutions, organizations that manufacture integrity as their main sellable product, adopted a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace