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- June 2020
- Case
Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center
By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and James Palano
Consumer products companies were beset by changes on all sides during the 2010s. Customers were increasingly turning to ecommerce platforms rather than shopping in-store. Meanwhile, nimble, digitally-savvy competitors were gaining market share by capitalizing on the... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Retail; Ecommerce; Alibaba; Consumer Products; Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; China
Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, and James Palano. "Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center." Harvard Business School Case 820-087, June 2020.
- Article
Innovations in Retail Operations: Thirty Years of Lessons from Production and Operations Management
By: Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman
We review papers published in Production and Operations Management (POM) during its thirty-year history that deal with retail operations issues with an empirical approach. The papers span a range of issues, from traditional ones like forecasting and inventory... View Details
Keywords: RFID; Innovation and Invention; Technology Adoption; Operations; E-commerce; Strategy; Retail Industry
Fisher, Marshall, and Ananth Raman. "Innovations in Retail Operations: Thirty Years of Lessons from Production and Operations Management." Special Issue on The 30th Anniversary Issue of Production and Operations Management edited by Subodha Kumar and Christopher S. Tang. Production and Operations Management 31, no. 12 (December 1, 2022): 4452–4461.
- Article
Agile Product Development: Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments
By: S. Thomke and D. Reinersten
Thomke, S., and D. Reinersten. "Agile Product Development: Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments." California Management Review 41, no. 1 (Fall 1998): 8–30. (Translated into German and reprinted in Harvard Business Manager (May 1999). Also reprinted in Engineering Management Review 28, no. 1 (2000), special issue on Strategy and New Product Design.)
- February 1996
- Case
Active Coatings, Inc. (A): Challenges in Managing Product Development
Two entrepreneurs face a tough decision when confronted with disappointing test results from the medical application they have chosen to commercialize their innovative process technology. They must decide whether to redesign the technology's current lead-application or... View Details
Teisberg, Elizabeth O., and James Leonard. "Active Coatings, Inc. (A): Challenges in Managing Product Development." Harvard Business School Case 796-061, February 1996.
- summer 1987
- Article
Managing Across Borders: New Strategic Requirements
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Bartlett, Christopher A., and S. Ghoshal. "Managing Across Borders: New Strategic Requirements." MIT Sloan Management Review 28, no. 4 (summer 1987): 7–17. (Also in The History of Management Thought, edited by Peter J. Buckley, Ashgate Publishing, 2002.)
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
Moses (HBS MBA '03) is an American who works for VASC, a state-owned Vietnamese telecom and media company. "The people who manage business well in a foreign environment do create a new style of doing... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- July 2015 (Revised March 2016)
- Teaching Note
Uber and Stakeholders: Managing a New Way of Riding
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
This case provides a vehicle to analyze stakeholder relations as a company grows, particularly in the context of new business models that challenge established industries. It introduces the dilemmas posed by rapid growth, new technologies, regulatory uncertainty, and... View Details
- November 2023
- Teaching Plan
Geely SEA: New Electric Vehicle Platforms
By: Willy Shih
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 622-001. Kent Bovellan, the Chief Engineer and Head of the Vehicle Architecture Center for Geely Holding, the Hangzhou, China headquartered global automotive group, was debating the platform choice for an upcoming "D" segment midsized... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- News
4 Ways Managers Can Increase Flexibility Without Losing Productivity
- 2007
- Chapter
Creativity in Product Development
Managing new product development is a key area of management, straddling strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship and macro-organizational behaviour. All of the contributors in the Handbook of New Product Developmet Management are well-known and leading exponents to... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Research; Creativity
Fleming, Lee, and Santiago Mingo. "Creativity in Product Development." In Handbook of New Product Development Management, edited by Christoph Loch and Stylianos Kavadias. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Workplace Design: The Good, the Bad, and the Productive
By: Michael Housman and Dylan Minor
We study the effects of performance spillover in the workplace-both positive and negative-on several dimensions, and find that it is pervasive and decreasing in the physical distance between workers. We also find that workers have different strengths, and that while... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Human Resource Management; Peer Effects; Productivity; Spillovers; Toxic Worker; Strategy; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity; Human Resources
Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor. "Workplace Design: The Good, the Bad, and the Productive." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-147, June 2016.
- 2003
- Chapter
Managing Across Borders: New Organizational Responses
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
- Teaching Interest
Immersive Field Course: Decarbonization and Sustainable Production
By: Willy C. Shih
A course looking at pioneering efforts in sustainable production methods and technologies supporting the energy transition. View Details
- February 1996
- Supplement
Active Coatings, Inc. (B): Challenges in Managing Product Development
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Teisberg, Elizabeth O., and James Leonard. "Active Coatings, Inc. (B): Challenges in Managing Product Development." Harvard Business School Supplement 796-062, February 1996.
- 1988
- Book
Innovation and Competition: The Global Management of Petrochemical Products
By: Robert B. Stobaugh
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry
Stobaugh, Robert B. Innovation and Competition: The Global Management of Petrochemical Products. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1988.
- June 1993 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
IBM: A Product for Managing Local Area Networks (A)
Dhebar, Anirudh S. "IBM: A Product for Managing Local Area Networks (A)." Harvard Business School Case 593-122, June 1993. (Revised June 1994.)
- fall 1995
- Article
Shooting the Rapids: Managing Product Development in Turbulent Environments
By: Marco Iansiti
Iansiti, Marco. "Shooting the Rapids: Managing Product Development in Turbulent Environments." California Management Review 38, no. 1 (fall 1995).
- 2007
- Working Paper
The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Victor Calanog
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Victor Calanog. "The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-063, April 2007.
- May 2013
- Teaching Note
Launching Krispy Natural: Cracking the Product Management Code (Brief Case)
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Heather Beckham
This case study concerns a review and interpretation of test market results for a new packaged good product. The purpose of the case is to provide students with practice and guidelines in the analysis of quantitative test market data while illustrating the roles of... View Details