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Technology and Operations Management - MBA Required Curriculum
This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as... View Details
- May 1996
- Background Note
The GM's Operational Challenge: Managing Through People
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda
Highlights and explores how a general manager adds value to the firm at the operational level by managing through people. Discusses how assumptions about human motivation influence the employment contract that the general manager implicitly enters into with the workers... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Contracts; Managerial Roles; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Value
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Ashish Nanda. "The GM's Operational Challenge: Managing Through People." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-400, May 1996.
- 1991
- Book
Operations Strategy: Text and Cases
By: David A. Garvin
Garvin, David A. Operations Strategy: Text and Cases. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991.
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
The specter of "headquarters" usually looms large in the business world's imagination, but few managers—and few CEOs, especially new CEOs—understand how size, structure, and performance of headquarters interact. To investigate, Harvard Business School senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Technology and Operations Management - MBA Required Curriculum
This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's... View Details
- 2003
- Chapter
Operating as a Knowledge System
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Operating as a Knowledge System." In Knowledge Capital: How Knowledge-Based Enterprises Really Get Built, edited by Jay L. Chatzkel. Oxford University Press, 2003.
- May 1989
- Case
Hercules Incorporated: The Pyrrhidone Operation
Schaack, Christian. "Hercules Incorporated: The Pyrrhidone Operation." Harvard Business School Case 189-143, May 1989.
- 1975
- Text Book
Operations Management: Text and Cases
By: Paul Marshall, William Abernathy, Jeffrey G. Miller, Richard P. Olsen, Richard S. Rosenbloom and D. Daryl Wyckoff
Marshall, Paul, William Abernathy, Jeffrey G. Miller, Richard P. Olsen, Richard S. Rosenbloom, and D. Daryl Wyckoff. Operations Management: Text and Cases. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1975.
- November 1980
- Background Note
Overview of IBM Operating Systems
Cash, James I., Jr. "Overview of IBM Operating Systems." Harvard Business School Background Note 181-044, November 1980.
- August 2001 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Operations at the Donner Company
By: H. Kent Bowen
A small manufacturer of circuit boards faces product and operations-management problems. This case analyzes the production capacity at various stages and examines bottlenecks and product flow decisions. A detailed look at the problems and a discussion of the tools and... View Details
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Technology and Operations - MBA Required Curriculum
By: Ryan W. Buell
This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Technology and Operations - MBA Required Curriculum
By: Feng Zhu
This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of... View Details
- 2002
- Book
Production Systems: Handbook of Operations Management
By: L. Gaio, Francesca Gino and E. Zaninotto
- October 2018
- Article
The Operational Value of Social Media Information
By: Ruomeng Cui, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno and Dennis J. Zhang
While the value of using social media information has been established in multiple business contexts, the field of operations and supply chain management have not yet explored the possibilities it offers in improving firms' operational decisions. This study attempts to... View Details
Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang. "The Operational Value of Social Media Information." Special Issue on Big Data in Supply Chain Management. Production and Operations Management 27, no. 10 (October 2018): 1749–1774.
- May 2018
- Teaching Note
AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-486. 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
- March 2006
- Background Note
Influencing Customer Behavior in Service Operations
By: Frances X. Frei and Amy C. Edmondson
Explores ways in which service firms can influence the behavior of their customers. Drawing from research on employee motivation and applying it to customer motivation, the note describes two levels of managerial control: instrumental control, which shapes behavior... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Governance Controls; Consumer Behavior; Service Operations; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Service Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Influencing Customer Behavior in Service Operations." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-061, March 2006.
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Technology and Operations Management - MBA Required Curriculum
This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its... View Details
- 2019
- Introduction
Operations in an Omnichannel World
By: Antonio Moreno and Santiago Gallino
Moreno, Antonio, and Santiago Gallino. "Operations in an Omnichannel World." Introduction to Operations in an Omnichannel World. Vol. 8, edited by Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno, 1– 11. Springer Series in Supply Chain Management. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019.
- March 1985 (Revised July 1986)
- Background Note
Foreign Operations Accounting and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: International Accounting
Hawkins, David F. "Foreign Operations Accounting and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-063, March 1985. (Revised July 1986.)