Product Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2008
News

Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

from outside the United States last year, proving the company’s standing as a truly global entity. And Immelt has made it a priority to ensure that the ranks of upper management reflect this new reality. “The way we train our people is global, and the way we View Details

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

products were designed to work with IBM systems and with those of other high-end systems suppliers, as well as those of Xerox. This compatibility with such systems was inconsistent with Xerox's preferred strategy to View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

developed out of Asia and are actually making their way in the US. TikTok’s a great example of that, which basically kind of became very large in China before it came out of China and then actually has made headway into the US. Large... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

New Releases

materials in their own training and development programs, focus on products covering key topics such as communication skills, change management, customer service, diversity, innovation, leadership, quality,... View Details

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2011
News

An Economy Undermined

our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S. View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

James W. Johnson

Johnson brought Band-Aid, an adhesive bandage, to the market. The product developed in 1920 soon became a standard in first-aid kits and one of the staples in the J&J family of products. James Johnson... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

April 2016 (Revised December 2016)
Case

The Container Store

By: Tatiana Sandino, Zeynep Ton and Aldo Sesia

The Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its employees first, and its cofounder and CEO Kip Tindell practices Conscious Capitalism. Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Conscious Capitalism; Merchandising; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Service Delivery; Going Public; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry; United States

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01 Jun 2017
News

Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management

market returns, companies ranked in the top quarter of the two qualities of clarity and purpose outperformed the bottom quarter by about 6 percent annually. Serafeim suspects that this link has to do with developing strong, informal... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

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Krishna Yeshwant

After graduating from Stanford with a degree in computer science, Krishna subordinated his earlier interest in medicine for one in engineering. While he enjoyed his work developing fake "honey pot" servers to ensnare would-be... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel maker based in Canton, Ohio,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

details of his theories regarding economic development and international financial interactions, as well as his indebtedness to earlier Renaissance traditions. The book also uncovers new material relating to Serra’s life and provides... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

mature brands such as Tide, which was developed in 1946 as the country's first synthetic laundry detergent. Today, Tide is available in dozens of differentiated product offerings around the world, including... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

intentions, including the potential for chilling or punitive legislation.” Fisher is the founder of Viacord and ViaCell, two Massachusetts companies that, respectively, are involved in the storing of individuals’ umbilical-cord blood and the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Feb 2013
News

Sam Adams: Now (finally) in a can

Keywords: beer; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

helped me realize that while I loved marketing, I wanted to focus on products and content that enriched or entertained. I’ve always been someone who wants to brighten peoples’ day, and I sought to integrate that into my career. I took on... View Details

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 May 2019
Blog Post

Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics

passive: the opportunity came and I took it.” But as oil prices plummeted from $110/barrel to just $40, advancement opportunities dried up and Kenya’s career pathway became much less certain. Meanwhile, she embraced a new hobby to occupy her stints on dry land:... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

15 Nov 2020
News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But the company also faces questions... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

several years ago in Asian Business magazine's annual most admired companies survey, Siam Cement Group (SCG) was one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. SCG's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

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