product launch - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

organizations to overemphasize the potential for integration and synergy between a newly launched business and the core business. When disruptive technologies are first exploited, they are applied in new ways with new customers. Over... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

to compete with Sprite. So why don't we come up with something called Crystal Pepsi?" And that happened. So it's these decisions to launch products that you think will achieve something but you really don't... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

integrity and social sensitivity are implicit in the idea of professionalism. . . . Nor has the School ever doubted that the concept of professionalism includes the components of social responsibility and accountability." In the 1980s and 1990s, the Bulletin detailed a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

the Valley's "Band of Angels," a group of entrepreneurs who are recycling their capital and energies into new ventures. This month the Center's first two intellectual products will make their debut in Sahlman's Entrepreneurial Finance... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

look at an opportunity as just 1 + 1 = 2," says Ahmad Hammouda, cofounder and CEO of Thndr, a Y Combinator–backed investment platform launched at the end of 2019. "It has to be the team, the idea, the market, and above all, the impact; as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

founding CEO. When the duo partnered again at Handspring, they launched another foundational tech revolution with the smartphone. But long before she redefined consumer technology, Dubinsky customized bowling shirts. When overcrowding at... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

over the scheme of maneuver, running through radio calls, and memorizing headcounts. After a mission I would complete post mission products and then experience the sleep that is only possible after expending every ounce of adrenaline in... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Keeping the Beat

fan to be comfortable with consuming musical experiences in a virtual format.” —Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) Dan Morrell: Artist and activist Madame Gandhi got her big break in the music industry when she was invited to join the group MIA on their world tour—which View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

London, traveling to the Continent several times a week to help launch MTV Europe. By the following year she had left MTV, married a Frenchman, and moved to Paris, where she consulted briefly for HBO. After the birth of her first child,... View Details

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307051 Yale School of Management Harvard Business School Case 308-011 In the fall of 2006, the Yale School of Management launched a new core curriculum in its MBA... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

product in this period. Now suddenly, we're so good at those two things that by the 1950s and 60s we start to overwhelm the environment. So we're making good stuff, we're making lots of customers and we're taxing our world. And that's the... View Details

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

(e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues per capita and, thus, lower cost of capital. We also explain that the variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments (i.e., the fact... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

case considers the challenges of entering the fiercely competitive retirement market, introduces students to the large literature on the behavioral biases of individual investors, and asks students to evaluate an innovative new financial View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

traditions with you. This guide gives tips about turning everyday ingredients and products into a simple, two-minute ritual in four steps: purify, polish, prep, and nourish. But this book is also about a lifestyle, how you eat and sleep.... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable division. After that, I was View Details

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