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22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

own." Unfortunately, lean's prevalence has led to some misconceptions. "Some people think lean means 'not fat,' as in laying people off," Upton says, noting that in their paper they propose that the difference in a lean... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

13 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 13

software and IT services industry as players seek to develop their capabilities for their growing domestic market. We describe the implications of our findings for CIOs in developed countries. Our main prediction is that the challenges of serving the domestic market... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

didn’t fully explain the wide productivity gap between opt-in and opt-out employees. The findings suggest that “unobservable characteristics largely drive the decision to forgo mentoring,” meaning that hard-to-detect shyness,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

Someone is out to shoot down your best ideas. Do you know how to defend yourself? In their new book, Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, HBS professor emeritus John P. Kotter and University of British Columbia professor Lorne A. Whitehead teach how to... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

installation/repair is $3K/home [16,17]. Electrical paneling: Electrification of the home requires 100-200A of electrical service, meaning most homes will need some type of electrical infrastructure upgrade. According to a study conducted... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s deadline to complete a module of the course and fully answering questions posed therein, including satisfactory performance on the quizzes at the end of each module (earning... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

insensitivity to others.” Power fallacies According to the authors, “three pernicious fallacies” surround the topic of power. People often assume that power is something a person possesses, such as monetary fortunes and personality traits; or that it’s “positional”... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

develop a wide range of entrepreneurial skills to build a successful business. Go To Article How are Innovation and Entrepreneurship Connected? Innovation is a unique and valuable product, service, business model, or strategy. It can be disruptive or sustaining , View Details

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Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Changing consumer behaviors have redefined what it means to be direct to consumer ("DTC"). What once began online a decade ago as a distribution and disintermediation strategy has since evolved into a multifaceted approach for the modern-day brand.

The... View Details

October 2019
Case

Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé

To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States

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Avaya (A)

Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Performance Improvement; Relationships; Sales; Cooperation

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01 Nov 2012
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09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

the job,” according to Bell. The company began looking for ways to attract new demographic groups to truck driving, including women and young people. Another important move has been what the company refers to as its “grow-your-own strategy.” That View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Unidentified Industries Ratios Over Time Show Hide Details Concepts Examining the Balance Sheet Utilizing Ratios Finding Meaning Case: Unidentified Industries Comparisons Featured Exercises Categorize financial ratios DuPont Analysis... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

automatically when you advance the film for the next picture. . . . You can have your pictures when they mean the most. You can share and enjoy the pictures together with others in the pictures." 76 Users also had the benefit of... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

image. The relationship between the two is rich with meaning and resonance and becomes the arena for navigating the empirical, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions of authentic and compelling narrative. To our minds, portraiture is a perfect... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

Credits “A river of red ink runs through American history.” — Lendol Calder, Financing the American Dream (2000) There is a myth of a lost golden age of economic virtue. Once upon a time, the story goes, people lived within their means... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

unmitigated disaster with the communications available in the first decade of the twentieth. Shipments arrived late, or piled up on docks with no means to unload them. By 1905 the New York Times was complaining that the Isthmian Canal... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

finding jobs in existing firms that are commensurate with their skills—either because of discrimination or because companies don’t know how to interpret their skill set. “Imagine I gave you a CV of somebody who had a bachelor’s degree from [China’s] Guangzhou... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

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