Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

We have developed a tool to measure management practices across operational management, monitoring, targets, and people management. In contrast, developing countries like Brazil, China, and India lag at the bottom of the management charts. Every country has some world-class firms. does not guarantee success. But the U.S.

Management 16

Management Survey Class Lean Production 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The organizational and operational benefits of targeted testing are not. But far too few organizations use targeted tests to simultaneously learn and accelerate the development process. You see this in the military's Special Forces and you see it in world-class medical institutions. These pathologies are nothing new.

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Danaher, a smaller but very profitable conglomerate with a diverse range of manufacturing businesses, has a very different set of strengths; it applies its distinctive lean production system to a variety of product sectors, often through companies that it acquires and then transforms. But that probably won't work.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8