Improving Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

technologically advanced product money can buy, right? Not necessarily, says Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen. Sometimes a cutting-edge item is more than people need or want. "When does the customer view something as 'new and... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

13 Nov 2020
News

Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

virus. “They created products and services that have the potential to reduce the spread of the virus, improve patient care, and create community when in-person gatherings aren’t possible,” explains Matt... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee

Courtesy Peet’s Courtesy Peet’s Ketchup. Potato chips. Chewing gum. Coffee. “These are products that everyone can relate to, that people understand,” says Casey Keller (MBA 1989), a longtime executive in consumer-packaged goods with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

March 2014
Module Note

Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations

By: Michael W. Toffel

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Purchase

01 Jun 2012
News

Made in the USA

survey cited specific actions their companies had implemented to remain competitive. The majority had taken steps such as improving worker training, investing in technology, growing exports, and expanding to new markets. Among the... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

local retailers operate with low inventory and depend on LEGO for just-in-time delivery. The company could build molding factories in Asia to shorten lead times and improve efficiency, but pushing down View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

Christensen). Look at the product to be developed and assess its chances for success, Barron said. A start-up that develops a so-called disruptive business—one that dramatically improves upon the status-quo... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

required to create and deliver a product or service, from procurement through conversion to distribution." In the following interview, Hayes explains why operations usually gets relegated to a support role and what needs to be done... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms: within-firm View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

experimentation will improve performance over time. However, the benefits of experimentation vary. Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2001
News

HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology

online materials in business education; and for online access to the intellectual capital of HBS. It draws upon the breadth of the HBS faculty as well as the unparalleled resources of Baker Library. HBSi's products will complement... View Details

Keywords: HBSi; HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Novo Nordisk

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

them to build a business where they could: Help their customers unlock value while improving their impact on society Put their Finance, Consulting and SaaS experience to good use. Conversations with HBS alumni at large, mid-sized, and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices

States will continue to play the role of swing supplier for years to come. And because improving technology will allow the North American oil and natural gas production sector to respond ever more quickly to... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

Crest and Pampers, for example, have regained market share after losing their number one positions in the United States several years ago to Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark, respectively. Crest won back the top spot recently by introducing teeth-whitening View Details

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Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

Gen AI has the potential to disrupt business models. How can businesses improve productivity and efficiency using Gen AI? How can businesses innovate using gen AI? How are business functions changing because... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Rebooting Europe

through 2019. “The big objective of my tenure is to help Europe to be able to have an ecosystem where you can actually create the conditions for fundamental science and research to be transformed into real products and businesses that... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; European Union; Government; Health, Social Assistance

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

becomes a source of incremental improvements whereas anything revolutionary could only come during the 'breaks' in the dialogue." And Caleb DeGrenier commented that "companies still need to surprise the market with innovative... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2011
News

Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund

Nine HBS student-led teams received grants in March averaging $5,000 to $7,000 to launch and test their start-up business ideas. A total of $50,000 was made available through the pilot Minimum Viable Product Fund program run by HBS’s... View Details

Keywords: awards

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