Product Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their conversion rates. This result holds... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53587 The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

through ratings of securitized products and sovereign debt. It further describes changes already enacted by the U.S. and the EU, as well as other reform proposals considered by lawmakers. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

economic model. Even a simple time-driven ABC model will fundamentally change the way the company manages its process improvements, its product variety, and its individual customer relationships. Typically,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

08 Dec 2021
Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital

to move from Toronto, Canada to Maranello, Italy to join the Ferrari Product Development team and kick off his career in the automotive industry. However, this is not a story about Memme’s career designing engines for some of the top... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

adoption of some cost-reducing, consumer-facing, and life-saving technology innovations. Herzlinger—dubbed the “godmother of consumer-driven health care”—has helped to shepherd countless new health care products to market. But she’s never... View Details

Keywords: April White

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; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

In fact, job creation appeared not to be a major concern of most respondents. For example, Jade Chang Sheppard said "Small business is where society's culture, motivation and inspiration come from. It is the American Dream"... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Research Resources | Baker Library

1905–2000 (Series III) Records of Polaroid scientists documenting the manufacture of innovative products during World War II and the creation and development of instant black-and-white and color photography. Photographs and Correspondence... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

their espoused strategy and management principles. Beer and Eisenstat began implementing the process ten years ago at Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical products and diagnostic systems supplier. "Ray Gilmartin, who was CEO at... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

system with an annual budget of only $10 million, helping network members get what they need to succeed as microfinance institutions and change agents. Under Barry's leadership, the organization has also led the microfinance industry in... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

serious player. The merger with Bank of Boston got us up to a required level of significance on the nationwide landscape." Now the rules of the game may have changed again. Commenting on the recent proposed megamerger between Citicorp and... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Sep 2006
News

Strange Bedfellows

United States could junk the dual-book system and require corporations to pay taxes, at a considerably lower rate, on profits reported to capital markets. Such a change would save the considerable resources now dedicated to dual-reporting... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

depends on (i) how changes in the number of developers affect the incentives to invest in the open platform, and (ii) how investment in the open platform affects the revenues of the proprietary platform. Finally, a proprietary platform... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

changes be brought about slowly--one model shows an adoption curve ending in 2020--or with more of a big-bang approach? There appeared to be general agreement that the time for action is now. "I believe that every participant left... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

China—face challenges and opportunities under President Xi Jinping. We will delve into China's domestic business environment and the changing relationship between the private sector and the Chinese Communist Party. Students will gain an... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates

Fischer It’s been a busy — and productive — spring for the dedicated volunteers who make up the Alumni Association Board of Directors. I want to quickly recap the highlights. The Global Leadership Forum Committee, chaired by Jean-Marc... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Alumni Association Board of Directors; committee; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

growth. Central to Ferrari’s strategy is its response to disruptive changes in the automotive industry and their impact on the company’s products and brand. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building collaborative capabilities, assuming that their existing people and... View Details