Production Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

another shot and afterward immediately felt how exercise improved her productivity and mindset. Gomih was hooked and started quickly introducing lifestyle changes to make fitness and wellness central to her life. Business School,... View Details

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

human cost of rampant outsourcing. "Every outsourced stop along the supply and production chains holds the potential for tainting the mother ship” What to do? Certainly, the newly announced plan by a... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

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 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 21

their core differ in their approaches to identity (how they think about sustainability), strategy (how they plan for sustainability), and design (how they act toward sustainability). Advocating a holistic approach to these three... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

Case 407-050 Gianna Angelopoulous-Daskalaki led the bidding organization that secured the 2004 Olympics for Athens and then later the preparations for those Games. Tracks her leadership style and how she and her team won the bid. After substantial View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

the Valley's "Band of Angels," a group of entrepreneurs who are recycling their capital and energies into new ventures. This month the Center's first two intellectual products will make their debut in Sahlman's Entrepreneurial Finance... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2016
News

Case Study: On the Table

furniture design but in a warehouse, a fleet of trucks, and a staff of drivers—the type of capital-intensive vertical integration he planned for later on, after Gaia Design had established its reputation as a source for well-designed,... View Details

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

collar and a sketch on a Palo Alto bar napkin helped launch a tech giant. READ MORE Jen Flint: I wondered if the two of you could go back and tell us the story of how you wound up writing this business plan together as a school project... View Details

Profile

Arthur Rock

a simple but profound desire: he wanted to help talented people build great companies. “Anyone who comes into the office and says `I have this business plan and you’re going to make a lot of money if you invest with me’ doesn’t stand... View Details

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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

used LEAN and Scrum frameworks that are common in manufacturing and product development. These are methodologies that prioritize breaking large, complex challenges into smaller, prioritized tasks. That kind of structured approach is... View Details

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

says Kendall, executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, which is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that increases the production and consumption... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

Career Coach

Cheryl Rousseau

While a Senior Vice President for global consulting firm Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), Cheryl was invited to join their International Center for Executive Options (ICEO) practice where she is a Confidential Advisor and Coach to C-Suite and E-Suite executives. In her 15... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

days, because consumers' demand for information about goods and services tends to be inelastic. As the model illustrates, additional forces drive industry change as well. Alternatives to advertising, known as substitutes in Porter's framework, include options like... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

03 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

investigates the drivers of success and failure of media and entertainment products such as motion pictures and video games. Her paper, "Demand and Supply Dynamics for Sequentially Released Products in... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the 1930s, investments were generally targeted for trusts, pensions, and other conservative funds rather than emerging industries. 32 The urgent military needs during World War II had fostered the rapid creation of new View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products and systems and the ways in which they evolve... View Details

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

pounds of production per year. The case describes how Johnson took charge of the plant and her action plan for implementing a new set of changes. During Johnson's tenure at Williamsport, the plant was... View Details