Product Pivot - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can the world's largest economy build... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

K., and Laurence A. Green Abstract—Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger's career, this paper describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Springbank Collective, a coalition of investors seeking to eliminate the gender gap, believes the “gender equity lens” for investing is a gateway to bigger themes, such as the future of work, the aging population, and the work View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Print View - Course Catalog

will also bring in a former student who successfully executed a pivot when the original product idea failed to sell. Course Administration/Grading: Enrollment for this course is by application only. To... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

up at the park while his father, Bobby Bonds, played for the team — the Giants won 103 games in 1993 and set a new attendance record for Candlestick Park. As the on-field product and public image of the team improved, behind the scenes,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

great, but the model was that advertising agencies were either Spanish advertising agencies or English. So in trying to do this, we launched and got off to a great start, but ultimately we had to pivot and Viacom didn't want to continue... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom had to View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

helpful to them going forward. They also start to build personal relationships with faculty and administrators who may be pivotal to their adaptation process during their two-year stay." The student government at HBS now includes... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

don’t want it to be a big secret. So when people ask us, ‘What does it do?’ We don’t say, ‘It’s a big secret, we can’t tell you.’ We say, ‘Go look at it.’ ” About a year and a half ago, though, Numenta began to shift its focus to research. Sample View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up... View Details

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

which is why the decision to pivot Lotus to a support network for women entrepreneurs was easy to make. In partnership with local sponsors, Lotus hosts monthly breakfasts for investors and female founders—a time of day more compatible... View Details

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

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

range of online cyber attacks, from spam to large DDoS attacks, and will make it easy to add third-party services. That first sentence of the business plan is what we do today. I think that it’s gotten broader, but we didn’t really pivot... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Christensen (MBA 1979, DBA 1992), Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan (HarperBusiness) The long-held maxim that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation is wrong. Customers don't buy products or services; they “hire”... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

industry is desperate for good help. Ben Minden’s Bear Hug Cattle Company proposes a two-birds, one-stone solution. The Golden Thread Teresa Amabile spent decades studying creativity, motivation, and productivity in the workplace. At 60,... View Details

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair... View Details

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