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The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
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    Managing Processes

    David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details
    • 27 Sep 2016
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    September 27, 2016

    forthcoming Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges By: Kaplan, Steven N., and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper describes the available data and research on... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2019
    • Article

    Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Open Source Innovation

    By: John Winsor, Jin Hyun Paik, Michael Tushman and Karim R. Lakhani
    Purpose: This article offers insight on how to effectively help incumbent organizations prepare for global business shifts to open source and digital business models.
    Design/methodology/approach: Discussion related to observation, experience and case studies... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Innovation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 11 Oct 2016
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    October 11, 2016

    to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial, needed fixes in View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2023
    • Case

    Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (A)

    By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
    In 2018, Ana Owczarzak was appointed to lead Google Ads' new innovation and accelerator team - the Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL). The purpose of SAIL was to offer testing and incubation services for individuals within Google Ads who were developing new... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Design; Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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    • 24 May 2011
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    First Look: May 24

    perspective that Porter has taken, often as a result of his specific background and prior research interests. The chapter then turns to extensions of these core concepts in Porter's more recent work. A central focus of this work has been... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Jun 2022
    • Lecture

    The Power of Trust

    By: Sandra J. Sucher
    We were delighted to be joined by Professor Sandra Sucher of Harvard Business School, a leading researcher on management practice and the author of The Power of Trust, to explore the core elements underpinning trust in business and to talk about some real-world... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Leadership
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    Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    was co-authored by Elizabeth O. Teisberg and published in 2006 following 10 years of research into why the health care industry did not conform to the principles of competition seen in all other sectors of the economy. They described how... View Details
    • 02 Jun 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

    truth.") Now research suggests that the federal government might be able to encourage honest reporting simply by moving the signature line to the top of the form, such that signers declare that they will tell the truth rather than that... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting
    • 12 Jul 2016
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    July 12, 2016

    on preventing them. She outlines five tactics that research has shown to be effective: encourage reciprocity. You can build trust and prompt other parties to disclose strategic information by sharing information yourself. Ask the right... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Feb 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

    And, it might seem appropriate to ask, how do such philosophical questions relate to marketing? Zaltman's eponymous research tool, the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique, called ZMET for short, was designed to illuminate exactly these... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 03 Oct 2006
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    First Look: October 3, 2006

    of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area of scholarship.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

    Along with colleagues Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics, Sadun challenges this view in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Management as a Technology? They argue... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 10 Nov 2015
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    November 10, 2015

    organizational components—formal organizational structure, culture, people, and critical tasks—such that each component, and their interaction, aligns to produce performance. Substantial View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Jun 2009
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    First Look: June 9

    Bazerman Publication:Academy of Management Perspectives (in press) Abstract In this article, we define good scholarship, highlight our points of disagreement with Locke and Latham (2009), and call for further academic research to examine... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy

    By: Mihnea Moldoveanu
    I introduce algorithmic and meta-algorithmic models for the study of strategic problem solving, aimed at illuminating the processes and procedures by which strategic managers and firms deal with complex problems. These models allow us to explore the relationship... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Business Strategy
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    • 10 Jan 2012
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    First Look: January 10

    this theory, but that women communicate differently: relative to male-male and male-female pairings, female-female interactions are much more likely to occur across organizational boundaries. These findings have implications for View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Designing Productive Zones of Privacy

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein

    A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details

    Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Field Experiments; Design; Organizational Design; Performance