Improving Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

and leadership to pull it off effectively. At the same time, as their research shows, the benefits of improved productivity and firm performance can make implementing basic management practices worth it. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

trip by, for example, vacationing closer to home; drive more economically and less aggressively to improve miles per gallon; and buy a specific dollar amount of gas rather than filling up every time, even though this may mean more visits... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Frameworks - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

globe with the overarching goal of value for patients. Drivers of Competitiveness Competitiveness is the productivity with which a location (nation, state, city or region) uses its human, capital, and natural endowments to create value.... View Details

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

To improve any business, managers need to understand how much it costs to produce a profitable product. It seems a simple task, but the process of securing and analyzing the data can be incredibly complex and organizationally taxing. In... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Yaoxin Ding

automotive program in the world” at the University of Michigan. After graduation, he became the only non-PhD engineer at Cummins, where he worked on efficient gasoline engines for the Chinese market. Two years later, he worked with Fiat Chrysler on hybrid mini-van... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Blog Post

The HBS Show Must Go On

The HBS Show is a cherished tradition at Harvard Business School. Twice a year, theater nerds among the student body congregate and perform two productions – the fall cabaret and the spring full-scale musical – designed to poke fun at... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

U.S. bank holding companies (2000–2015) and contrasts these with 1,452 nonbanks. Our findings indicate that most post-2008 improvements occurred in "process controls," e.g. Chief Risk Officer (CRO) appointments increased from 53%... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

experimental methods to further demonstrate causality and to consider the effects of potential moderators. These findings have implications for decisions related to product pricing, placement and assortment, store layout, and the choice... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

needle on climate change exist today but need help being brought to market. At Pattern Ag, we are harnessing innovations in genetic sequencing to help farmers improve their soil health and in turn, improve... View Details

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54665 forthcoming R&D Management An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India By: Gupta, Budhaditya, and Stefan... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

motivated, to find meaning at work during this crisis. Research by Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between decision rights and improvement rights (zones of slack), and for set periods of experimentation (zones of time). By balancing transparency and... View Details

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

in a truck. The company's main products continued to be tomato-based, including a 40% share in the tomato paste and diced tomato market in 2013. Different from traditional manufacturing companies, Morning Star relied on self-management to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

intense and substantive actions is much more productive in creating a climate where it's clear that the manager is concerned enough to improve the systems." Of the 20 hospitals that participated in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

2010
Case

Groupe Ariel, S.A.: Parity Conditions and Cross-Border Valuation: Brief Case.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and James Quinn

Groupe Ariel evaluates a proposal from its Mexican subsidiary to purchase and install cost-saving equipment at a manufacturing facility in Monterrey. The improvements will allow the plant to automate recycling and remanufacturing of toner and printer cartridges, an... View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Valuation; Business Subsidiaries; Policy; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; International Finance; Problems and Challenges; Production; Currency; Manufacturing Industry; Mexico

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09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

boss deserves a big salary, but only when the number is fully explained. Research Papers Driven by Social Comparisons: How Feedback about Coworkers’ Effort Influences Individual Productivity At a Japanese bank, researchers examine the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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California - Global

covered many subjects beyond language, allowing the company to tap into the $56 billion ed-tech market. The company had recently started to explore this direction by adding new subjects, such as math and music. This product line... View Details

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Review articles, How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition (November 2014), and How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies (October 2015) address the role of information... View Details

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

26 Sep 2023
Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

to the new digital context. ” Enthusiasts and advocates of the digital revolution would submit that digital transformation changes everything, from product design to how value is built and captured in the market. In some cases,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

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