Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But it was clear that Guillermo was much more of an engineer than a businessman, and despite his outgoing nature, he hadn’t been able to find new mentors or investors. operations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

.” Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Friends since their engineering days at Stanford, VV Tikekar and Reza Rastegar had each been involved in several start-ups before joining forces on AndFound.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Four times each year, we launch a new team of astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS, where they will stay for six months to one year, performing engineering tasks, research, maintenance, and upgrades to prepare for future commercial vehicles. A Case Study: Conducting Ultrasounds in Space. Apollo, Skylab, ISS, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The result is underinvestment in infrastructure, education, and technology, all of which could be — but aren’t, Stiglitz says — engines of future American prosperity. A classic case of disruption? That’s one among several Bain recommendations for fighting the fickle nature of consumers. Not so fast.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. While not historically dedicated to connected devices, these companies are good case studies for the commercialization and valuation of their data assets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. No two organizations are the same, and neither are the cultures and contexts in which they operate. Does your organization prefer weekly staff meeting announcements, newsletter case study examples, quarterly prizes for model behavior, or financial incentives?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

You can also use technology to begin "experiencing" the new culture while still at home. Case Study #1: Knowing when to adapt. In the 1990s, he was transferred to an operations position in the Middle East. The engineering team he worked with was made up of several Arabs, most from different countries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. It turned out that on the first shift the airflow was weaker because there were more lines operating using the same technology than at night.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology. And, if they are not known, those lessons can't be learned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

“If we don’t see male kindergarten teachers or female engineers we don’t naturally associate women and men with those jobs, and we apply different standards” when hiring, promoting and evaluating job performance. To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. Another ousted from the CEO role by a co-founder, former boss, and seed investor.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

New managers will be able to see through excessive boasting or kissing up pretty quickly, and most are wary of overt political operators. Case Study #1: Adapt to the boss’s communication style. ” Case Study #2: Make a connection and bring solutions. Don’t lay it on too thick — or too thin.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Social Media Influence [.]

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Ideas make the future happen.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” According to our study, the Cost of Cash in India , these institutions spend $3.5 billion annually in currency operations costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Most obviously, the Internet of Things has the power to profoundly change operations — that’s where much of the coverage of this burgeoning network has focused. These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Marketing Strategy Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Most obviously, the Internet of Things has the power to profoundly change operations — that’s where much of the coverage of this burgeoning network has focused. These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Marketing Strategy Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is frequently the case in industrial production. Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. Case Study: Putting This into Practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 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 its business was manufacturing lightweight small arms technologies, so-called LSATs, for the U.S. Now it seemed like a hornet’s nest. Twin Debates. government. “A

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