Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community. The result?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Have you ever wondered if a person's childhood experiences influence the way they operate as a professional later in life? They may react negatively to consensus building on the job and gravitate towards leaders who operate independently and exude an aura of confidence.

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Power Advertising System Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. Question: Have you seen cases of catastrophic failures in process improvement programs? Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. Customer service Customers Health Operations'

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Health Care Policies Porter System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Operations in a Connected World. So they started asking a few key questions: How can we go from what’s been working well, to go even further?

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Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

“Introduce yourself, and take a little time to get to know people, how they operate, and how they act.” That positive, innovative approach is not only far more likely to lead you to a beneficial solution, but also to a place of trust. We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But after their patents expired and the competition became heated, the idea of merging them made sense: Consolidating their sales forces and operations would reduce costs.

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Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. He explains why this is so by dissecting and analyzing his own experiences—using himself as a case study. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. DeLong takes the reader inside his own head and heart.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. digital giants in these countries. counterpart, Match.com.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2017

For example, a surgeon in the hospital operating room could view an X-ray you had taken at an urgent care center. In our white paper, “A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare,” we proposed a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs using blockchain technology, which we called MedRec.

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