Remove Human Resources Remove Lean Production Remove Marketing
article thumbnail

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. That would never fly in marketing, operations research, or even accounting, where academics are all over new developments. A few decades ago, U.S. Let me explain. So schools need to step up.

article thumbnail

Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

The conventional wisdom has ranged from skepticism that lean could be successfully applied in places like Vietnam and India, to the hypothesis that lean actually exposes workers to greater risk of exploitation and injury than mass manufacturing. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.