Product Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

rather, how do we get the organizations of the world to agree to standardized job types?" Suresh Annappindi points out that "...although people and products cannot be equated and subjected to the same exact metrics ... we can... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2008
News

Faculty Books

their experience that they tell their stories to others, persuade them to try a product, and provide constructive criticism and new product ideas. Employee-owners are so enthusiastic about their organization that they infect customers... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

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

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

advantages might be unique to the skills that they've developed in South Africa. They're used to innovating to serve poorer clients within South Africa, and the poorer members of the South African population would resemble many of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2019
News

Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the new joint MS/MBA:... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

process, quite different from the market research traditionally employed to guide sustaining innovation. The implication is that the initial concept for a new product or service is probably going to be wrong. Therefore, 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

Article

U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962

By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock

This article presents a new database on U.S. multinationals active in British manufacturing between 1907 and 1962. Britain was the largest European host economy for U.S. direct investment in manufacturing and the second largest host worldwide. This article identifies... View Details

Keywords: Production; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Research and Development; Business Subsidiaries; Policy; Investment; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Great Britain

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12 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Electric Mobility in India

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details

John R. Kimberly

During this time, Kimberly-Clark became a leading developer of such products as disposable clothing, bedding and cleaning products. By the end of Kimberly’s tenure, the firm had over 80 plants in 28... View Details

Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Competition of Countries

like companies, must find a means of creating total factor productivity if they are to grow. Some other countries, meanwhile, have grown quite slowly for decades, despite great locations and immense deposits of natural resources. In these... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

companies. 26 As head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, Bush enlisted Polaroid in the cause, and the company entered into a contract with the National Defense Research Committee to create a range of... View Details

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Case

The Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy: Settling the Opioid Crisis

By: Kristin Mugford, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Susan Pinckney

How to get to a fair outcome for claimants in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy given its significant role in the U.S. opioid crisis. View Details

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Educators

Purchase

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

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

and practices, or to product developments in complementary industries."14 However, another leading strategist, Igor Ansoff, argued that Levitt was asking companies to take unnecessary risks by investing... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Apr 1996
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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

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Business School Case 617-024 Product Development Fundamentals This note introduces key managerial issues in new product development. It describes the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

concentrated in Japan); and all technology and new product development came from headquarters. The delegation of responsibility and authority was more constrained than at either Philips or General Electric,... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Product Published: April 23, 2012 Upgrades to existing product lines make up a huge part of corporate research and development activity, and with every upgrade comes the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

Santosh Iyer is originally from Toronto, Canada, and pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He is currently an EC student and will graduate with the Class of 2020. Post HBS,... View Details

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