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  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

Harder to Capture True U.S. Productivity

  • September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Obsidian: Product or Platform?

By: Karim Lakhani, Peter Barrett, Julia Kelley and Kerry Herman
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  • 20 Jan 2019
  • News

You can’t be productive without routines and rituals. Here’s why

  • November 1988
  • Case

Honeywell Residential Division: New Product Development

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Describes three different product development efforts at the Residential Controls division of Honeywell, Inc. Each of the three projects was for a different market and competitive environment. Each was tackled in a somewhat different way within the Honeywell... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Construction; Outcome or Result; Situation or Environment; Business Divisions; Product Design; Change Management; Construction Industry
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  • November 1996 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

Living on Internet Time: Product Development at Netscape, Yahoo!, NetDynamics, and Microsoft

By: Marco Iansiti and Alan D. MacCormack
Describes how four companies in the Internet software market approach product development. Drawing upon short case studies of three recent projects, students are invited to synthesize the common attributes of development practice in turbulent environments. View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Situation or Environment; Volatility; Risk and Uncertainty; Research and Development; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • Article

Products to Platforms: Making the Leap

By: Feng Zhu and Nathan Furr
Following the path of companies such as Apple and Amazon, more and more firms are trying to become not just product purveyors but also platform providers, facilitating direct connections between customers and other groups. Although launching a platform can generate new... View Details
Keywords: Product; Digital Platforms; Expansion
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  • January 1980 (Revised August 1985)
  • Case

Cumberland Metal Industries: Engineered Products Division--1980

By: Benson P. Shapiro
Cumberland Metal Industries has developed a new product to help contractors drive piles faster. They are trying to decide how to price it. Provides substantial information on the industry, competition, etc. Students must decide what factors are relevant in making an... View Details
Keywords: Price; Information; Marketing Channels; Distribution Channels; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry
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  • January 2011
  • Case

Clean Edge Razor: Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning

By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham
After three years of development, Paramount Health and Beauty Company is preparing to launch a new technologically advanced vibrating razor called Clean Edge. The innovative new design of Clean Edge provides superior performance by stimulating the hair follicles to... View Details
Keywords: Project Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Conflict Management; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Relationships; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • December 1995 (Revised April 1997)
  • Teaching Note

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Project ICON (D) TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan
Keywords: Projects; Chemical Industry
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  • November 1990
  • Case

Techsonic Industries, Inc.: Humminbird - New Products

By: Melvyn A. Menezes
After several new product failures, the company began using customer input to help develop new products. In 1989, the fishing electronics industry is experiencing a downturn, and the company's sales and profits are slipping. The company, which has one product line... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Marketing Reference Programs; Product Development; Electronics Industry
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  • September 2017
  • Teaching Note

The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?

By: Laura Alfaro and Hayley Pallan
In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details
Keywords: Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Technological Innovation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Globalization; Business and Government Relations
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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Entry, Exit and Labour Productivity in U.K. Retailing: Evidence from Micro Data

By: Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun
The paper investigates the U.K. retail sector using store and firm-level data between 1998 and 2003. First, we present the first exhaustive description of the U.K. retail sector using micro data sources. Second, in the spirit of Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2002),... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Market Entry and Exit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

lead to choice deferral; consumers simply give up and delay choice. Other times, we find, it can drive consumers toward another brand that offers a simpler assortment. In a sense, the consumer is saying, "I can't decide which View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products
  • 17 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

tends to be sunny one day and overcast the next. The purpose of the lab study was to determine whether the distraction created by the temptation of outside activities was indeed what caused a decrease in worker View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Want from Your Products

get done, and design products and brands that fill that need. In this excerpt, the authors look at designing products that do a job rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook & Taddy Hall; Consumer Products
  • August 2020
  • Teaching Plan

Obsidian: Product or Platform?

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Peter Barrett and Julia Kelley
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 620-018. View Details
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  • May 1984 (Revised July 1984)
  • Teaching Note

Mass Production and the Beginnings of Scientific Management, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow
Keywords: Management; Production
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  • 13 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

really goes away. Since the dawn of advertising, retailers have made a point of marketing separate lines of branded products for men and women in many categories, even in cases where their functions are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • 1988
  • Book

Innovation and Competition: The Global Management of Petrochemical Products

By: Robert B. Stobaugh
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry
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  • May 1997
  • Supplement

Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions

By: Linda A. Hill and Mara Willard
Suzanne de Passe talks to an MBA class in October 1996 and discusses her perspective on leadership, her experience making "Lonesome Dove," and her company: de Passe Entertainment. Designed for use with Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions (A) (9-487-042), (A1)... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Perspective; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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