Product Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2020
Blog Post

(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals

Sophie Bai (HBS 2020) is working with classmates Danielle Waldman (HBS 2020), Elaine Liu (HBS 2020), Natalie Knipp (HBS 2020), Graham Lieberman (HBS 2017), Arting Chang (HBS2020), Qimei Luo, Matthew Wozny (HBS 2019), Anna Ike (HBS 2021),... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less

how companies that lack resources and clout respond to a range of issues, from developing products and services, to establishing supplier relationships, to hiring and growing a staff.” In the spirit of his research, Bowen began his... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

20 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting

lesson of economics. Legislators would also be restricted to changes in rates as opposed to tinkering through myriad preferences. Publicly reporting taxes paid is a sensible first step in restoring some sanity to these parallel universes.... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

Profile

Kaki Ettinger

how I could make the greatest contribution. I came to HBS to discover and understand the different paths in this sector for someone with an analytical mind, a deep interest in technology, and a passion for storytelling and the creative aspects of View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

08 Jan 2016
News

Investing in Sustainability

production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious... View Details

Keywords: April White; Agriculture

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

operational, financing, and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which product developers can play a useful role in monitoring the deployment of their technology abroad. The analysis demonstrates that when firms want to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will produce 9.06 million cars worldwide this year, while money-losing GM will cut production (after manufacturing an estimated 9.08 million vehicles in 2005). Increasingly, the glory days... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54955 Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment By: Ferreira, Kris, and Joel Goh Abstract—Assortment rotation—the retailing practice of changing the assortment of View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 2001
News

The Natural Advantage

“polluting” pressures such as stress and fear. Problems should be “composted” — by turning negative feelings into constructive output, “waste” becomes a source of future growth. “It’s already obvious that the natural environment won’t support continued economic growth... View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

the World—With a Single Step by Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) (Creative Good) Why do companies so often fail to give customers what they want? The authors provide a roadmap for anyone wanting to create better products and services.... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint ventures, but those efforts are... View Details

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

From product push to customer pull, technology has vastly reshaped the business transaction—and in turn, the customer's place in the value chain. Today, managing the customer relationship has become the single most important dimension of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

reach that level of trading volume. Building A Consumer-products Empire But the negatives haven't scared off consumer products giant Procter & Gamble. Since 1987, the company's Latin American sales have grown by 4.5 times to $2.8... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Mar 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

products were that easy. It's not, as is made abundantly clear by authors Scott Anthony (MBA 2001) and David Duncan, a Harvard PhD, both of management consultancy Innosight. Their point: Success over time requires continual innovation,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

consistent with stock prices being subject to temporary fluctuations caused by changes in market risk aversion, which adds an additional layer of short-term volatility to stock returns. In recessions, even as long-term fundamentals remain... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Dec 2006
News

Forestalling Terror

RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

That's when removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale becomes less a question of science and more a question of economics. The United Nations' climate change commission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC,... View Details

September 2005 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Lifefont: The Case for RetailDriver

Examines how Lifefont (pseudonym), a multidivisional consumer packages goods company, develops a system to manage and measure the impact of promotional events in retail outlets. View Details

Keywords: Framework; Change Management; Compensation and Benefits; Cost vs Benefits; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Customer Relationship Management; Product Marketing; Salesforce Management; Advertising; Management Systems; Information Technology; Retail Industry

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01 Sep 2003
News

Books

scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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