Product Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2024
News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Apr 1997
News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

MIS faculty, as well as faculty from other units whose research is related to MIS, are currently engaged in research to track the evolution of information technology and to determine how IT infrastructure can create value in the marketplace. Nolan, who View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

29 Jul 2021
News

A Clean Start

it a reality, and the plants and factories to scale it. OCO’s bread and butter is a processing device called an electrolyzer, which combines electricity and CO2 and splits water to make formic acid. That formic acid can then be sold to customers who use it to create... View Details

08 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Summa was developed under a new private equity model that sought to “future-proof” businesses by focusing on long-term value creation and growth, in addition to traditional private equity practices of implementing best practices and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2024
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

motivated the case protagonist; how ethical, responsible, and productive were their business practices; what were the broader political, economic, and cultural contexts that contributed to their failures or successes; and what were the... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

context in which to study the missing link. Product development cycles are long, usually between seven and ten years. Millions of dollars are spent before a product ever gets... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

rejections personally because their requests were merely a few among the thousands of pieces of mail that Harpo Productions received every week. The experience also taught them the value of teamwork and the necessity of not allowing each... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 May 2023
News

Alumna Snags an Emmy

Plays) resulted from many hours of user research to understand the unmet needs of sports fans and then months of prototyping and iteration, all of which were hard skills I learned in TOM and the Product Management course. The View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

07 Jun 2024

MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Information Session

science, or a related technical field; and have at least two years of full-time work experience, ideally in product development roles, before starting the program. View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

Web

Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

advertising for special products and industries, advertising contests and awards, advertising mediums (catalogs, magazines, billboards), and art in advertising. The Trade Catalog Collection is also a helpful resource for tracing the View Details

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

looks to build a mobile technology product development team by executing an "acquisition-hire" (i.e., "acqui-hire") to acquire New York City-based start-up Stamped, a mobile application... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

Determination to make what they regarded as best-of-class offerings tailored specifically to consumers' emerging needs. They knew their products and services fit consumers' preferences because each had spent enormous time and effort... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

closely with our hardware marketing partners, who are responsible for ensuring we continue to build and promote great VR headsets, and with the product teams and developers making the applications... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance and View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

World One Smart Innovation at a Time When institutions let us down, look for leadership outside of hierarchies, says Rosabeth Moss Kanter. These leaders "don’t wait to be asked; they just get moving." Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and... View Details