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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Pioneer (Dis-)advantages in Markets for Technology

By: Moritz Fischer, Joachim Henkel and Ariel Dora Stern
This study sheds new light on first- and early-mover advantages in the context of product innovation. Research on this classic topic often assumes that each firm participates in the entirety of the innovation and commercialization process. However, a division of labor... View Details
Keywords: First-mover Advantage; Product; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Acquisition; Technology
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  • December 2009 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

Monsanto: Helping Farmers Feed the World

By: David E. Bell, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Mary Shelman
Monsanto has led the effort to bring biotechnology to bear on food production. Through some management missteps and consumer resistance the company had difficulties in its early years. But since Hugh Grant became CEO the picture has brightened with widespread adoption... View Details
Keywords: Food; Global Strategy; Leadership; Production; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 24 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World

    stories contain pearls of management wisdom for today’s executives looking to lead with excellence. “Without exception, all these people are opportunity seekers,” says Simons of the leaders profiled, which include former British Prime... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Research Summary

    Exploring the Tail of Creativity: An Evolutionary Model of Breakthrough Invention

    This research, under the direction of Lee Fleming, argued for a distributional approach to new product development and has formed the basis for my subsequent research. View Details

      Michael W. Toffel

      Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

        Jill J. Avery

        Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

        Keywords: consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products
        • 12 Feb 2016
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

        Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel; Education
        • March 2019 (Revised March 2023)
        • Case

        Accion's Fintech Strategy

        By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Tricia Gregg
        Accion, an NGO, had been a pioneer in microfinance since its entry into that sector in the early 1970s. Its investments in Banco Compartamos paid off, when the microfinance bank went IPO in 2007, leaving an influx of $138 million for Accion. Under a new CEO, Michael... View Details
        Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Financial Inclusion; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Non-Governmental Organizations; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Business Growth and Maturation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Industry Growth
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        • August 1999 (Revised June 2008)
        • Case

        Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A)

        By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
        Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home because of complications with her pregnancy. Unable to travel for at least the next six months, Swan must decide how... View Details
        Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams
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        • November 1994 (Revised November 1995)
        • Case

        SweetWater

        By: H. Kent Bowen and Thomas D. Everett
        Focuses on developing a promising idea into a viable product design by considering customer needs early in the design process. Following an Alaskan fishing trip, Sandy Platter, a computer peripherals engineer, has a new idea for a portable water-filter device for use... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Independent Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Customers; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Colorado
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        • 22 Nov 2023
        • Research & Ideas

        Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle

        highly-skilled tasks with and without AI. After establishing a performance baseline, consultants were randomly divided into two groups. The first group would “conceptualize and develop new product ideas,... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
        • 01 Oct 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Better by the Bundle?

        Sales can soar when companies bundle products together into one cheaper package—Happy Meal, anyone? Yet a buyer's affinity for such deals comes with a big caveat, according to new research: These groupings... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
        • March 17, 2021
        • Other Article

        Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

        By: Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza and Laura Castrillo
        A first look at how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted e-commerce apparel shopping in the US and the UK. Extensive analysis and interactive graphics utilizing millions of transactions.
        While the pandemic is still playing out, our preliminary investigations... View Details
        Keywords: Retail; Retail Analytics; Consumer; Pandemic; COVID; COVID-19; Apparel; Ecommerce; Online Shopping; Online Apparel; Online Sales; Returns; CRM; Customer Retention; Customer Experience; Customer Value; Digital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customers; Health Pandemics; Consumer Behavior; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Behavior; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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        • 11 Jan 2010
        • Research & Ideas

        Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

        approaching it product by product.” Their findings highlight the complexities managers face in navigating an increasingly competitive industry. But if there's no easy recipe for software firms, even in the... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
        • June 1994 (Revised September 1994)
        • Background Note

        Commercializing Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs

        By: Dorothy A. Leonard
        The transformation of technology into commercially successful products is a process fraught with risk and uncertainty, and increasing pressure on time to market is exacerbating the difficulties. This note first describes a study conducted by Hewlett-Packard to improve... View Details
        Keywords: Transformation; Communication Strategy; Customers; Design; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Research; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Technology Adoption
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        • August 2014
        • Article

        Incentives in a Stage-Gate Process

        By: Raul O. Chao, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
        Many large organizations use a stage‐gate process to manage new product development projects. In a typical stage‐gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from research and exert effort in development while senior executives make intervening go/no‐go... View Details
        Keywords: Stage-Gate Process; Production; Operations; Product Development; Innovation and Invention
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          Jan W. Rivkin

          Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

          Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
          • April 2007
          • Article

          Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict

          By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David B. Yoffie
          We study competitive interactions between Intel and Microsoft, two producers of complementary products. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in turn, depends on the... View Details
          Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Competition; Cooperation; Value; Performance Effectiveness; Research and Development; Motivation and Incentives; Investment; Price; Product Launch; Product
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          • 11 Dec 2017
          • Book

          'Don’t Show Up Empty-handed' and Other Tips for Finding the Right Job at a Startup

          Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne