Product Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2005
News

India’s Oil

growth rates of China, India, and perhaps the United States. They are making windfall profits. As a result, they are impoverishing developing countries.” On the subject of outsourcing, Chidambaram asserted that it helps lower taxes for... View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

Will K. Kellogg

Kellogg invented corn flakes and created a breakfast cereal empire. Practicing pioneering advertising techniques, he managed to change the American breakfast style. Today, the Kellogg Company carries on the tradition of innovative advertising and continues to View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

between the structure of a development organization and the architecture of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often said to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Jul 2012
Article

A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses

The U.S. corporate tax code is broken. High rates and perverse incentives drive capital away from the corporate sector and toward other uses and countries. This is bad news for U.S. workers, because corporations aren't making investments that would increase View Details

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HBS Online Scaling Ventures

Scaling Ventures is for startup founders and senior leaders who have achieved product-market fit and now need to successfully guide their company through cycles of rapid growth and organizational change. Program Dates: April 30, 2019 - June 18, 2019 (Every Tuesday from... View Details

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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Collection: Data Analysis Photography has the capacity for accounting for things seen in the visual world with an exactitude... View Details

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

Keywords: by Staff

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

It's a pittance in the West. A loan of only $500 to $1,200, however, can make all the difference for a man or woman eking out a living in the developing world. Just that much—the typical range of microfinance loans, according to Michael... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

that the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has attracted companies with superior environmental performance. After developing quasi-control groups using propensity score matching, I also find that adopters subsequently... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

concealable. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/AshrafFieldLee_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries By: Comin, Diego A., Norman Loayza,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2022
News

Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter

brand,” she says. Later, she served in various roles at the company in Geneva, joining the board in 2002 and then becoming president in 2012 when her father retired. When Hubscher took the helm, the company was about to celebrate its first century. There were... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

01 Mar 2014
News

Cutting Edge

and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

restrictions risk losing out on the ability to collaborate with colleagues. Such interruptions in communication could negatively impact both job prospects for individual workers and the productivity of teams, Choudhury says. “They will be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Apr 2014
News

Meeting an essential health care need in India

When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that... View Details

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

(ii) designing incentive systems, broadly defined, that motivate both individual performance and organizational behavior. Students will learn to apply these concepts to enhance their own productivity while also View Details

09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

customers in new product development) and developing a reputation for environmentally friendly behavior. What is the role of operations management in this context? Purchase this case:... View Details