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- August 2018 (Revised July 2019)
- Background Note
Conducting a Kaizen
By: Willy Shih
Kaizen, meaning change for the better in Japanese, is a set of activities directed at improving standardized work, equipment, and procedures for carrying out daily production or other business operations. It was popularized by Toyota as an integral part of its Toyota...
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Keywords:
Best Practices;
Continuous Improvement;
Kaizen;
Process Improvement;
5S;
Muda;
Toyota Production System;
Production;
Service Operations;
Performance Improvement;
North and Central America;
Asia;
Japan
Shih, Willy. "Conducting a Kaizen." Harvard Business School Background Note 619-016, August 2018. (Revised July 2019.)
- August 1994
- Case
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords:
Energy Industry
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program." Harvard Business School Case 195-078, August 1994.
- August 1994 (Revised May 1999)
- Teaching Note
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program TN
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
- Summer 2021
- Article
The Origin and Development of Firm Management
By: Michela Giorcelli
This paper examines the historical origin and diffusion of management practices. Despite their centrality in the modern world, the concepts of ‘management’ developed fairly recently. Only with the Industrial Revolution, due to the increased firm size, owners needed a...
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Keywords:
Productivity;
Kaizen;
Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
History;
Performance Productivity;
Technology
Giorcelli, Michela. "The Origin and Development of Firm Management." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 37, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 259–275.
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
easy. This norm is kaizen, and it basically states that whatever you do today is “not good enough.” It is one of the reasons Toyota, Honda, and Sony piled up such quick successes as Japan was still lifting itself out of the rubble of World War II. My twin brother and I...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA 2008) when he cofounded View Details
- Profile
Michael O. Braimah
marketability." After Amal Sale, Michael reached out to an HBS contact he met a few years earlier at the Africa Business Conference, joining him at his private-equity firm, Kaizen Venture Partners. There, Michael was part of a small...
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