Product Life Cycle - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2015
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To Market, To Market

building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers in wealth-creating value chains... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

While his friends have retired, 79-year-old Merle Bushkin (AB 1956, MBA 1960), a laid-back guy with the energy of a man half his age, is rocketing full speed into the challenges of entrepreneurship—launching a startup company offering a simple View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

13 May 2014
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Willing Hands

Clinton Administration. Since joining Habitat, Spencer has overseen a significant uptick in activity. In FY 2012, construction starts numbered 80; in the first four months of FY 2014, production is on pace for 125 annual starts—without a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Oct 2001
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Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing

output has resulted in commercial products manufactured in a number of domestic and overseas industrial parks, also championed by Yeo. He, as much as anyone, has fostered the country's knowledge-based economy and set its future course.... View Details

Keywords: Government

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

come to fruition and become real, productive companies. “I remember my dad visiting ViaCord in the early days, when I had only 10 employees. He came in and said, ‘Where’s your cash register? I don’t hear the cash register ringing.’ That... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Dec 2017
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The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)

every day is the conflict between helping our existing customers and our new users. Our existing users want their apps to work well at scale, they want more speed and more features. On the other hand, new users want the product to be... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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34,000 Pages and Counting

question at a conference for alumni magazine editors in late March, I instinctively reached for my pen, hoping his answer would help explain why HBS alumni write such a torrent of class notes — edited down to nearly 2,000 pages a year. For McKibben, our enduring... View Details

Keywords: class notes; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

headphones provided, and different chairs procured,” Fieldhouse said. Training sessions were developed to assist the autistic employees with life skills, such as travel planning, financial awareness and nutrition, as well as professional... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist

attention, Matthews remains focused on new ideas and new opportunities to bring change to people who need it. “It truly is a question of, How do you execute on this invention? What do you have to do to make it come to life and reach the... View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Keeping the Faith

It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai

01 Mar 2025
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Patch Work

primary product is no longer outbound calls to voters but rather inbound calls known as “patch-throughs,” which connect constituents directly to lawmakers. This pivot over the past decade has reinvigorated Jameson’s firm and restored his... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

microscope by thousands of HBS students, tell it like it was and relate what they’ve learned and what they believe about being a leader. Toby Johnson Putting Her People First Whether leading in military or civilian life (bottom, at... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

products, from venture capital to financial services firms, from manufacturing to services, HBS graduates were helping to create, revolutionize, and reinvent industries. Indeed, life without the host of View Details

16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption

spent his entire life building roads for the government. When I was in junior high, he used to take me to the villages on his four by four, and tell me that whatever you do in life, you should give access to those who need it the most.... View Details

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

ruling radical left-wing SYRIZA party. During the campaign, Mitsotakis pledged to bulldoze the barriers that have long made Greece a difficult place to do business and set spinning a virtuous cycle of foreign and domestic investment, job... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the... View Details

25 Apr 2016
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Trail Blazer

Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

know regarding the decreasing life spans of jobs—and even careers—because of rapidly advancing technology and global competition. It’s about your first line of defense, your awareness—without which you may be blindsided. You need to... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

technology to become available for laboratory use. He calls for new approaches to research and funding to encourage a tighter, more collaborative coupling of engineering and biology. Only then, he argues, will we see the rapid advances in the View Details

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