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- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a company's order View Details
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Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton and Bjarne Rugelsjoen
The article addresses failures in strategic alliances and illustrates, via a detailed description of the successful strategic alliance between Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Quintiles company how the creation of a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard helps align the...
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Keywords:
Alliances;
Balanced Scorecard;
Employees;
Alignment;
Corporate Governance;
Interests;
Management Practices and Processes;
Goals and Objectives;
Partners and Partnerships
Kaplan, Robert S., David P. Norton, and Bjarne Rugelsjoen. "Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2010): 114–120.
- Article
Political Forecasting as a Management Tool
By: James E. Austin and David Yoffie
Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Government and Politics;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Austin, James E., and David Yoffie. "Political Forecasting as a Management Tool." Journal of Forecasting 3, no. 4 (October–December 1984).
- January–February 1996
- Article
Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton
Kaplan, Robert S., and David Norton. "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System." Harvard Business Review 74, no. 1 (January–February 1996): 75–85. (Reprint #96107.)
- March 2006
- Background Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Course Overview Note
The Harvard Business School Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes multiple levels of analysis--from creating and executing...
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Keywords:
Curriculum and Courses;
Innovation and Management;
Projects;
Opportunities;
Perspective;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Problems and Challenges;
Managerial Roles
MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Course Overview Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-105, March 2006.
- October 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Store24 (A): Managing Employee Retention
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Provides a retailing context in which employee retention strategies are explored through analyzing detailed store-level data.
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Keywords:
Retention;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Analytics and Data Science;
Strategy;
Mathematical Methods;
Retail Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Store24 (A): Managing Employee Retention." Harvard Business School Case 602-096, October 2001. (Revised October 2017.)
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Finding New Markets for New and Disruptive Technologies: Managing Innovation, Overview Teaching Note for Module 2
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Provides instructors with an overview teaching note for the second module of the Managing Innovation course in which students explore the challenges and methods for defining and creating new markets for new technologies. In addition to summarizing each of the cases...
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- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
for a while The technique of continuous forecasting was there, we just needed to adopt and tailor it. continuous forecasting/budgeting/planning requires more effort to think about the future than the former...
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by James Heskett
- June 2010 (Revised October 2014)
- Teaching Note
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)
By: Anette Mikes
Teaching Note for 109-001
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- 16 Oct 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Core Earnings? New Data and Evidence
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
This overview to Managing Product Development (MPD) both previews course material, cases, exercises, and lectures--and provides its conceptual and academic underpinnings. Additionally, this note links these materials to the activities students will be undertaking in...
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- April 1970
- Background Note
Strategic Scanning: Some Practical Considerations for Top Management
By: Francis Aguilar
Aguilar, Francis. "Strategic Scanning: Some Practical Considerations for Top Management." Harvard Business School Background Note 370-002, April 1970.
- March 2006
- Module Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 4: Sensing Opportunity
Describes the fourth module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Projects;
Opportunities;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Perspective;
Value Creation;
Networks;
Alignment
MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 4: Sensing Opportunity." Harvard Business School Module Note 606-104, March 2006.
- March 1999 (Revised April 2017)
- Teaching Note
Citibank: Performance Evaluation
By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila
Teaching Note for (9-198-048).
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- 30 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action
- January 2002
- Case
Intrinsix: Managing Growth at an Electronic Design Service Company
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Intrinsix is a 15-year-old semiconductor design services company that wants to continue its growth and market reach and appears to be ready for an initial public offering (IPO). This case leads up to this strategic decision point by tracing the growth of Intrinsix from...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Initial Public Offering;
Growth Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Style;
Marketing Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Competitive Strategy;
Electronics Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Intrinsix: Managing Growth at an Electronic Design Service Company." Harvard Business School Case 602-067, January 2002.
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon More Ways to Listen iHeartRadioPlayer.fmAudacyCastboxPocket...
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- March 2017 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
The Strategy Execution Series
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
This is the teaching note for the 15-module Strategy Execution series. New management tools and techniques are needed to implement strategy in the 21st century. Rapid innovation, entrepreneurial competitors, and increasingly demanding customers have radically altered...
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Keywords:
Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Strategy Execution;
Performance Measurement;
Profit Planning;
Organization Design;
Profitable Growth;
Management Attention;
Organizational Conflict;
Job Design;
Business Strategy;
Management Systems;
Entrepreneurship;
Competition;
Organizational Design;
Performance Evaluation;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
- 08 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries