Diversified Production Technologies - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2014
Blog Post

BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up

I have been so happy at BaubleBar. A product I believe in, a great group, a perfect job for me. So just don’t take it personally when you have to keep plugging – it’s worth it. Do it!” -Laurie Matthews, Career & Professional... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology

30 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Cambridge to Nairobi

business ideas with peers. At first glance it’s San Francisco—except that we’re 9,586 miles away, in Nairobi, Kenya. This summer, I’m interning at Ushahidi, a non-profit technology company that uses crowdsourcing for social activism and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

decade of technological progress will result in major changes, and I believe the site will morph into a potent and active force in people's lives. Today, Facebook is a passive vehicle where users manually post pictures, status updates,... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

10 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

Indian software maker Infosys specifically, and other Indian firms more generally.We document the under-studied effect that global product and labor markets can play in the convergence of corporate governance systems worldwide. This... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

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Rhea Acharya | MBA

Rhea Acharya Applied Mathematics Eliot 2025 Cohort 7 Living through this unprecedented period of technological growth has presented us with both ground-breaking solutions and new challenges. As we navigate these unknowns, we must turn to... View Details

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including pricing), and people in operations... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

15 Jun 2021
News

The Value of Difficult Conversations

Page, director of multimedia development at HBS’s Technology Product Group, is also available to the public on the School’s website. It features the images and voices of Tulsa’s Black community, past and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

23 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

which is dominated by white, urban, professional men. To truly recognize the potential of products appealing to women and other groups, Koning says, companies must continue the hard work of diversifying... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Oct 2024
Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

technologies for greenhouse production through its incubator, Division Q. In these Dutch greenhouses, technology rules the roost—from cultivar selection to pest control and... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

A Juicy Story

to expand its product line into handheld devices like the iPod and, now, the iPhone? The Apple case originally appeared in 1992 and has been rewritten five times since then. “The company always looks a little different, yet many of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

that’s actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

investment in technology and related resources? Or are capital inputs in relation to those of labor somewhat less important in boosting productivity in an information economy? Will the U.S. continue to offer... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2000
News

Core Values Keep Airline Flying High

Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Air Transportation; Transportation

September 2023 (Revised August 2024)
Case

Avive: Resuscitating a Defibrillator from the Regulatory Brink

By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks

Avive Solutions set out to create a better Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) that would solve many of the problems with existing solutions, including lack of connectivity, difficulty-of-use and requiring prior training for successful use of the device, data... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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01 Sep 2010
News

Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

complete profile. As Yahoo! president, entrepreneur Sue Decker led the company’s global business operations, including sales, product, product marketing, and distribution. Since leaving Yahoo! in April 2009, she spent the past academic... View Details

Keywords: awards; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology

Profile

Yaping Wang

"I wanted a job in an industry instead of a PhD." For more than eight years, Yaping worked for Mars in Beijing, conducting research for product innovation. "I probed for consumer insights, then helped translate those... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Healthcare/Biotech; Retail/Hospitality

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Dhilan Ramaprasad | MBA

bridge that gap by creating solutions using knowledge from many different backgrounds. Tech areas of interest: EdTech, IoT and Smart-home Devices, 5G Technologies, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (FPGA) Formative experience at the intersection of View Details

2010
Working Paper

Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing

By: Bradley R. Staats, Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance trade-offs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach a team can take is to specialize, such... View Details

Keywords: Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Quality; Groups and Teams; Information Technology Industry; India