Toyota Production System - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2022
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What Really Makes Toyota’s Production System Resilient

17 Feb 2022
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Auto Industry Reconsiders Production Systems after Border Protests

29 Jul 2021
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Support System

To the people of Ghana, shea butter is known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey shea-nut trees... View Details

09 Jul 2009
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Systemic Risk and the Fed

17 Jul 2020
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In Africa, shea butter is sometimes known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from skin care to stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

08 May 2025
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Building Readiness for AI Agents in Healthcare Systems – with Raheel Retiwalla of Productive Edge

25 Nov 2013
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Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

17 Nov 2009
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Inventing a Better Patent System

07 Nov 2014
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How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition

14 Dec 2022
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Santa Claus Debates Whether to Outsource Toy Production

07 Dec 2015
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Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food View Details

01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

to meet with BFFS faculty to promote the productive exchange of ideas. “We began by mobilizing Harvard research around the realities of how markets, individuals, and institutions behave ,” says Greenwood. “Ultimately though, we want the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real

Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley