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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
Wheelwright, Steven C., and Ann B. Winslow. "Operations Management Reading: Forecasting." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8042, 2013.
- November 1994
- Case
Hewlett-Packard: French Manufacturing Operations
By: Robin Cooper, Patricia Bost and Robert S. Kaplan
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
Hawkins, David F. "Accounting for Foreign Operations." Harvard Business School Background Note 100-024, November 1999. (Revised June 2011.)
- Dataset
Tesco: Countries of Operation
- March 1974 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
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
Lorsch, Jay W. "First National City Bank Operating Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 474-165, March 1974. (Revised June 1996.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist in measurement systems and... View Details
- 22 Oct 2019
- News
2019 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence
- June 1990
- Teaching Note
Operations Strategy, Module Overview: Planning and Implementing Operations Strategies Over Time
By: David A. Garvin
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
Exercise: Challenging Operational Assumptions
By: Frances X. Frei and Christine van Keuren
Teaching Note for [608128]. View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?
Keywords: Health
- June 2017
- Article
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
Trichakis, Nikolaos, Dan A. Iancu, and Gerry Tsoukalas. "Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?" Management Science 63, no. 6 (June 2017): 1730–1761.
- 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
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Note on Operating Exposure to Exchange-Rate Changes." Harvard Business School Background Note 288-018, September 1987. (Revised November 1992.)
- TeachingInterests
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
- 01 Jul 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency
- January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
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
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.)
- August 1986 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
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
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Wal-Mart Stores' Discount Operations." Harvard Business School Case 387-018, August 1986. (Revised April 2007.)
- Dataset
Ford: Countries of Operation
- 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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Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral
Technology & Operations Management The doctoral program in Technology & Operations Management prepares students to conduct important research on a broad range of issues in View Details