Product Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

the Miami Culinary Institute. He sits on the board of Northeast Organic Farming Association in New Jersey, which incubates artisanal food production businesses. And he indulges the would-have-been academic in him by regularly attending... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2012
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In Brief

one by envisioning what she could not find: sexy, comfortable underwear that absorb odor and wick away moisture. More New Post for Palepu Professor Krishna Palepu, Senior Associate Dean for International Development at HBS, has been... View Details

Keywords: meta; contests; awards

01 Mar 2015
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Cracking Conferences

Margaret Molloy (MBA 2000) came to New York in 1994 for a marketing internship with Enterprise Ireland, a government agency promoting the country’s products in the United States. She had $200 in her pocket and no family connections on the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

Strategic Management Product Market Strategy By: Menon, Anoop, and Dennis Yao Abstract—Product market strategy is the collection of choices, actions, and activities of a firm that determines how it positions itself in its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2019
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GE Appliances: Implementing Haier's Made-In-China Management System

By: Dennis Campbell, Marshall Meyer, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; China; United States

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01 Jun 2004
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There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad

(MBA ’91), a managing director in the firm’s Boston office. (See the International Checklist.) Working abroad can also develop new skills and open doors to future opportunities. Sean Keohane (MBA ’96), for example, had never visited Asia... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; international; relocation; employment

25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1998
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Designing Students

(from left) Karena Wells, John Semel, Denton Chase, Lee Falck (partly hidden), and Rich Lim, all members of the HBS Class of 1998, demonstrate how to use the Vita-Tech 2000, a handy vitamin dispenser they created for the Managing Product... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief

step back and ask, What are the big projects that we want to work on, and who will be dedicated to these projects? When we had 282 projects, nobody was dedicated 100 percent to anything. Now we have dedicated teams.” Gaining control over an unwieldy View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

high-pressure realities of the research and development of new products for the US military. 1 Georges F. Doriot to Alice and Lewis Strauss, 17 May 1928, Lewis L. Strauss Papers - Early Career Name and... View Details

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

"fallacies" that sometimes enter into discussions of art in relation to money. This, in turn, leads us to propose a framework to support more productive discussion and to describe a direction for management research that might... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2014
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Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society

accelerate the development of our products, we are growing and investing more in product and capacity, which in turn contributes to economic solutions around the globe,” said Fields. “Our goal is to serve... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor

day or less. The number of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid’s peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with markets in the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Auto worker creates stripe guns - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response The Collection The Medium The... View Details

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

durations, and dispatch it as electricity on demand. Cal's role prior to HBS was an Aerospace Industry Application Engineer at Mathworks. Aditya Desai (MBA 2022, Section J), Summer Internship: MBA Summer Intern at Natron Energy Natron Energy is the world's leading... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management

to figure out how to operationalize these insights. We have developed two credit products with Sanghamithra that are based on these ideas, and we’ve just deployed the first few dozen of each of them. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk

successfully in global markets while also supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. America is not more competitive if businesses succeed by paying lower wages. Actually, the need to cut wages reflects a lack of View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details