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- February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (C)
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...
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Keywords:
Globalization;
Compensation and Benefits;
Surveys;
Innovation and Invention;
Management Practices and Processes;
Production;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Labor and Management Relations;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Manufacturing Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-082, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
- December 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Nestle S.A.
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
Peter Brabeck wants to focus Nestle as a wellness company in the global food system and do so in a way that provides both growth in sales and margins in both developed and developing countries.
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Keywords:
Brands and Branding;
Product Development;
Supply Chain Management;
Food;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Sales;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Switzerland
Goldberg, Ray A., and Hal Hogan. "Nestle S.A." Harvard Business School Case 902-419, December 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
female, women make up only 38 percent of middle management jobs, 22 percent of C-suite seats, and a grim 5 percent of CEO positions, according to 2019 data from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. “The improvement over the last...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2020
- Other Presentation
Towards Modeling the Variability of Human Attention
By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Daniel Yamins and Nick Haber
Children exhibit extraordinary exploratory behaviors hypothesized to contribute to the building of models of their world. Harnessing this capacity in artificial systems promises not only more flexible technology but also cognitive models of the developmental processes...
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Keywords:
Exploratory Learning Behaviors;
Modeling;
Artificial Intelligence;
AI and Machine Learning
Kim, Kuno, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Daniel Yamins, and Nick Haber. "Towards Modeling the Variability of Human Attention." In Bridging AI and Cognitive Science (BAICS) Workshop. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 26, 2020.
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much...
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- September 2022
- Case
HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential
By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp
Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Grants;
Scaling And Growth;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Opportunities;
Gender;
Income;
Employment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Human Capital;
Mission and Purpose;
Motivation and Incentives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Employment Industry;
Health Industry;
Education Industry;
Consulting Industry;
Europe;
Netherlands
Trelstad, Brian, and Idelès Kaandorp. "HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential." Harvard Business School Case 323-024, September 2022.
- November 2018
- Case
Komatsu Komtrax: Asset Tracking Meets Demand Forecasting
By: Willy Shih, Paul Hong and YoungWon Park
Komatsu's Komtrax system started as a way of remotely monitoring and tracking equipment for the purpose of improving operational efficiency. This case follows its evolution towards other uses including demand forecasting for its sales, marketing, and production...
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Keywords:
Big Data;
Manufacturing;
Manufacturing Industry;
Data Strategy;
Internet Of Things;
Construction;
Production;
Analytics and Data Science;
Strategy;
Performance Efficiency;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Industrial Products Industry;
Construction Industry;
Japan
Shih, Willy, Paul Hong, and YoungWon Park. "Komatsu Komtrax: Asset Tracking Meets Demand Forecasting." Harvard Business School Case 619-022, November 2018.
- Article
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case
By: Robert Lagerström, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Alan MacCormack
In this paper, we test a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) based method for visualizing and
measuring software portfolio architectures. Our data is drawn from a power utility company, comprising 192 software applications with 614 dependencies between them. We
show that the...
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Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Alan MacCormack. "Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case." Special Issue on DSM Conference 2014. Journal of Modern Project Management 3, no. 2 (September–December 2015): 114–121.
- October 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Nasdaq Japan: E-Merging Markets
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kristin M. Kohler
Describes the design and launch of Nasdaq Japan. Addresses issues concerning the design of electronic markets, the impact of information technology on market structures and relationships, the launch of new ventures by established firms, and the cultural issues that...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Markets;
Technological Innovation;
Management;
Industry Structures;
Competitive Strategy;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Japan
Applegate, Lynda M., and Kristin M. Kohler. "Nasdaq Japan: E-Merging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 802-056, October 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
- 09 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Where the Cloud Rests: The Economic Geography of Data Centers
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by Shane Greenstein and Tommy Pan Fang
- Web
Required Curriculum - MBA
integration Product development Information technology Technology and operations strategy Required Curriculum Term 2 Course Descriptions Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) This course introduces tools for studying...
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- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
further one's career, or desire to protect one's livelihood (or, one might add, one's loved ones)." In an organization, doing what's right starts at the top. Ashraf Khan commented that "Individual managers (tone at the top) play...
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by Jim Heskett
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
In the decades prior to the advent of radial tires," writes Donald Sull in Business History Review, "Firestone Tire & Rubber was viewed by some observers as the best managed U.S. tire company." But in the face of French...
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- 13 Dec 2014
- News
The openness revolution
- August 2013
- Technical Note
Raising the Level of Abstraction
By: Willy Shih
This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to think at a higher level. This lowers entry barriers to using (and reusing) a...
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Keywords:
Abstraction;
Modularity;
Commercialization;
Information Technology;
Information Infrastructure;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
United States;
Asia;
Europe
Shih, Willy. "Raising the Level of Abstraction." Harvard Business School Technical Note 614-019, August 2013.
- March 1993 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
Intel Corporation: Going into OverDrive
In May 1992, Intel Corp., the leading supplier of microprocessors for IBM-compatible personal computers, announced the retail availability of OverDrive processors, a new line of performance upgrades for the Intel 486 series of microprocessors. The case chronicles the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Expansion;
Product Marketing;
Computer Industry;
Semiconductor Industry;
Retail Industry
Dhebar, Anirudh S. "Intel Corporation: Going into OverDrive." Harvard Business School Case 593-096, March 1993. (Revised June 1994.)
- 27 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
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by Werner Erhard & Michael C. Jensen
- 12 Aug 2019
- News
World in Motion
- August 1995 (Revised June 1997)
- Case
Hillcrest Research Associates, Inc.
Hillcrest designs and administers testing procedures for drugs to determine whether they pass FDA specifications. As the company grows, it encounters problems with information technology and with the clinical research associates, who feel pressured to report more...
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Keywords:
Growth Management;
Information Technology;
Health Testing and Trials;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Barnes, Louis B. "Hillcrest Research Associates, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 496-021, August 1995. (Revised June 1997.)
- 2012
- Chapter
Integrated Reporting Requires Integrated Assurance
By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Liv A. Watson
In the wake of the recent financial crisis, increasing the effectiveness of auditing has weighed heavily on the minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and...
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