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- May 2018
- Supplement
Video Supplement to Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A. case (693-019): An updated video of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Georgetown, KY site showing seat installation
By: Willy C. Shih
This is an updated video of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) assembly facility in Georgetown, KY. It is meant to be paired with the 693-019 Toyota Motor Manufacturing U.S.A. case, but with higher quality video. The vidoe shows a line tour of Assembly Two...
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Keywords:
Manufacturing;
Manufacturing Strategy;
Lean Management;
Toyota Production System;
Just-in-time;
Lean Production;
Automotive Industry;
Automobile Manufacturing;
Automotive;
Automotive Supply Chain;
Production;
Operations;
Logistics;
Auto Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy C. "Video Supplement to Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A. case (693-019): An updated video of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Georgetown, KY site showing seat installation." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 618-713, May 2018.
- March 2020
- Technical Note
Intrapreneurship: Leading Innovation Efforts in Established Organizations
By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
“Intrapreneurship” is the use of entrepreneurial management techniques within established companies to create new environments that foster innovation. Mature firms have consistently faced risk of elimination from competitors, shifting consumer preferences, and...
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Keywords:
Intrapreneurship;
Innovation;
Corporate Venture Capital;
Accelerators;
Incubators;
Lean Startup;
Hypothesis Testing;
Business Ventures;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Framework;
Disruption
Mills, Karen G., and Annie Dang. "Intrapreneurship: Leading Innovation Efforts in Established Organizations." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-096, March 2020.
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
ensure that the casinos' best customers return to play another day. “It's not absolute freedom—it's freedom within a framework" —Francisco de Asís Martinez-Jerez And it turns out that casino hosts are ideal subjects to gain insight into an ongoing question debated for...
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- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Cheaper" program. To Read More: ARTICLES HBS Cases: LEGO Stephan Thomke on managing creativity for 80 years. Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups The power of 'lean' start-ups, according to Scott Cook. How...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
pathways and standardization. Successful lean operations at Wipro involved a small rollout, reducing hierarchies, continuous improvement, sharing mistakes, and specialized tools. How Can A Company's Order View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
excitement and the growing enthusiasm, at times even the frenzy, about these new phenomena, on the grounds of the pressing demands on managers to deal with the new reality and on academics to understand these phenomena. “Existing strategy...
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- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Wholesale upskilling: Walmart’s workforce value proposition Businesses are getting strategic about skills building, focusing on what they and their employees need to reach their respective goals. As the largest...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Taking stock of Eastern Bank’s expansive community banking model Eastern Bank is betting that bigger is better when it comes to serving small businesses and supporting local communities and philanthropic...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Parsing 5G’s potential for work and learning As the realities of 5G wireless networking and the Internet of Things catch up to the hype, the effects are expected to be sweeping, from smart infrastructure to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Can we automate our way to better decision making? The pandemic has forced organizational change and spurred the development of new business models. It’s also prompted workers and the public to reexamine their...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Virtually present: Meta’s vision for the hybrid workplace The pandemic has forced businesses to reassess how, where, and when work gets done. The competition to provision this transformation is intense....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
things that we try to get across to managers is, “We’re all in this together. You’re right. We all don’t know how all of these various aspects are going to work, but we need to lean in and experiment, and...
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- July 2020
- Case
Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within
When Kathy Fish, Procter & Gamble’s Chief Research, Development & Innovation Officer, and a 40-year company veteran, stepped into her role in 2014, she was concerned that the world’s leading consumer packaged goods company had lost its capability to produce a steady...
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Keywords:
Female Protagonist;
Organizational Change;
Organizational Behavior;
Culture Change;
Digital;
Innovation;
Lean Startup;
Experimentation;
Metrics;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Disruption;
Innovation and Invention;
Digital Transformation
Truelove, Emily, Linda A. Hill, and Emily Tedards. "Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within." Harvard Business School Case 421-012, July 2020.
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Ep 14: The gift of global talent: Why talented people are the world’s most precious resource In a special episode, Professor Bill Kerr talks with co-host Professor Joe Fuller about his new book on global...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Coursera: From virtual lecture hall to platform for lifelong learning Coursera Chief Enterprise Officer, Leah Belsky, on how online education is facilitating workforce development, mitigating Covid job losses,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Dropbox founder Drew Houston on streamlining the digital workspace Is work-life balance possible when you’re always connected? The pandemic has forced advances in the digital underpinnings of remote and hybrid...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Veeva’s distributed approach to building institutional knowledge and shared culture Life sciences cloud software company Veeva's origins as a highly decentralized organization and its early adoption of video...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Microsoft’s AI perspective: From chatbots to reengineering the organization AI’s revolutionary potential is best realized incrementally, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Modern Work and...
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- February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (B)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have...
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Keywords:
Managing People;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Production;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Management Practices and Processes;
Compensation and Benefits;
Labor;
Surveys;
Decisions;
Manufacturing Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-081, February 2009. (Revised August 2021.)
- June 2014
- Teaching Note
Lit Motors
By: Thomas Eisenmann
In mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an efficient electric 2-wheeled...
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