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B-Schools Aren’t Bothering to Produce HR Experts

Harvard Business Review

In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. The State University of New York at Albany is one of the few trying to meet the market, with a program that blends information technology and human resources. A few decades ago, U.S. Let me explain.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

The initiative sought to improve manufacturing operations — to deliver high-quality products in relatively small batches and on shorter production deadlines. Our research focused not on the success of this initiative, per se , but on the impact of lean production on the workplace.