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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
analysis highlights the difference between operating core units designed for efficiency and market-facing units designed for responsiveness. We introduce key concepts that are essential to the effective design of performance measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
and develop a deeper appreciation of how legal systems operate and how to operate within the boundaries of legal systems. In response to increased student interest in private... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now
operations to take advantage of the opportunities, and skirt the dangers raised by the prospect of climate change,” Reinhardt says. Each company must evaluate its use of energy in its own context. In some cases, other firms or governments... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
to go outside them in terms of conduct or operations or strategy"; and also the belief systems, which don't simply set forth a list of Thou shalt nots, but which address what the organization positively stands for in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- Profile
Andrew Dervan
Like many of his colleagues, Andrew Dervan entered medical school to fulfill a passion. And like many of them, Andrew says, "I'm frustrated with the system. One out of seven dollars in the US is spent on health care. It's just incredible that so much money is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
deeper questions that should be asked of any system of corporate governance: “What’s the central objective? Who are the key players? How is authority allocated? How is accountability ensured? Whatever country a company View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
ROOFTOP GARDEN: HBS project manager Kevin Ruby surveys Shad Hall’s newly planted perennials. Photographs by Neal Hamberg When it came time to replace the leaky roof on Shad Hall — runners joked of dodging buckets placed on the indoor track to catch ceiling drips — the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
designs. At higher frequency, managers use designs to search for high-performing operational choices. The two searches are coupled: organizational design molds the choice among operational alternatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 1994
- Background Note
Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus
Proposes models of organization that address the various product-market environments posed by the product life cycle. Frames these changes along the two dimensions of uncertainty and diversity. Offers three sets of organizational characteristics to reflect the three... View Details
Keywords: Business Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Complexity; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Product Marketing; Markets; Product
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus." Harvard Business School Background Note 594-119, May 1994.
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
initiatives — Apple, Claris, Palm, and Handspring — and it’s been rewarding to look back and see all the value and products created, as well as the customers served by those efforts. The Visor PDA uses the same operating View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
requirements. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19018 Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture By:Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
style-driven business, but go with it. —Ted Hibben (MBA 1986) Start the delivery operation but structure it for spin-off, because there’s clearly an opportunity for e-commerce logistics in Mexico. As part of the startup, look for other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
sophisticated communication systems that include detailed weekly reports from UCC’s sales force and senior managers. As long as her days may be — talking on the phone with customers, following up on issues raised during a weekly... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- November 1992 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Process Control at Polaroid (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Steven C. Wheelwright
Describes the initial efforts at a film production plant to shift from a traditional QC inspection mentality to a worker-based process control mentality. Students can prepare SPC charts, propose actions needed, and combine steps into an overall action plan. View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Operations; Quality; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Processes; Change Management; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Steven C. Wheelwright. "Process Control at Polaroid (A)." Harvard Business School Case 693-047, November 1992. (Revised January 2002.)
- February 1990 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Quantum Semiconductor, Inc.
By: Janice H. Hammond and Roy D. Shapiro
Quantum is faced with a difficult ethical dilemma--industry studies provide evidence that chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing may cause women working in fabrication cleanrooms to suffer a higher likelihood of spontaneous abortions. The possibility of other... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Prejudice and Bias; Law; Equality and Inequality; Cost; Production; Ethics; Health; Gender; Semiconductor Industry
Hammond, Janice H., and Roy D. Shapiro. "Quantum Semiconductor, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 690-059, February 1990. (Revised March 1990.)
- Web
Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
for a government in an emerging or frontier market, as well as for those who wish to acquire a richer conceptual understanding of the nature of capitalism, globalization, and economic development worldwide. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
Summing Up The authors of a recently-published book, Creative Destruction, have more work to do to convince our readers of their primary argument that creative destruction, based on an assumption of discontinuity, is a more effective management principle than View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett