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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

The second in a series of occasional reports on current research from some of the many faculty members whose classroom presentations to alumni have been a cornerstone of recent HBS reunions, this month we report on Professor Howard H.... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

hyper-rational equilibrium play and would have consequential properties that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting behavior under other procedures, including one... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

hiring and productivity, says Jeffrey T. Polzer, the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management at Harvard Business School. His recent paper probes how organizational researchers should study people analytics practices, which... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real

Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2017 Management Science Best Paper Award in Operations Management. Antonio Moreno : Recipient of the 2017 Management Science Distinguished Service Award. Antonio Moreno : Winner of the 2017 Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research... View Details
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Trade-offs between Productivity and Quality in Selecting Software Development Practices

By: Alan MacCormack, Chris F. Kemerer, Michael A. Cusumano and Bill Crandall
Keywords: Quality; Applications and Software; Research and Development; Practice; Performance Productivity
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Change Your Unix Command Prompt - Research Computing Services

Shell , there's plenty of explanation. So let's present one customization to make this always visible line a productive tool that shines! Show Me Where I Am! You can see that with the default prompt, we're presented with the current user... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Interview

Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin
This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details
Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation
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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

full glory of their wealthier pasts. The point is that they are becoming places where people want to live, shop, run businesses, and go to school." At HBS, a number of faculty are engaged in research and teaching projects that treat these... View Details
Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
  • September 2015
  • Technical Note

FIELD 2: Situation Analysis

By: Jill Avery
In this note, we present a method, the 5 C's Analysis, for collecting and analyzing information about the internal and external environments that firms face. This analysis will enable you to develop design ideas for a new product or service for your Global Partner that... View Details
Keywords: Design Thinking; Innovation; Market Research; Marketing; Customers
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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

and beverage, semiconductor, and high technology. Passport
Market research reports about various consumer products and industries worldwide from Euromonitor International. Includes economic indicators,... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

integrity and learning value of the research. What kind of help can faculty who come to the office expect? We seek to help translate faculty research interests into productive View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • September 2018
  • Article

An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India

By: Budhaditya Gupta and Stefan Thomke
Recent research has studied innovation in emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this... View Details
Keywords: India; Product Development; Emerging Markets; Situation or Environment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; India
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The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

  • 2006
  • Book

Service Productivity Management: Improving Service Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis

By: H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu
Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance—Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific... View Details
Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Economics; Operations; Mathematical Methods
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    Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

    We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

    • March 1985
    • Article

    Seihin Kaihatsu Process no Management (Management of the Product Development Process)

    By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka
    Keywords: Management; Product; Research and Development
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Ethical Hedonism? How Consumers' Prosocial Behavior Varies Along the Utilitarian-Hedonic Product Spectrum: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

    By: Kristin Sippl
    The marketing literature classifies products along a spectrum from utilitarian (e.g. rice) to hedonic (e.g. cannabis), and additionally using terms such as “luxury” and “illicit.” Research in business ethics has proposed a counter-intuitive mismatch between ethics and... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Luxury; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability
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