product development - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

elements of the marketing mix when it comes to brand building. Developing new products provides an edge in product differentiation, he said, and pricing should be as important... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

revenue production are brought into the picture? The question is not hypothetical. In recent years, an ever increasing number of corporations have developed and adopted socially responsible behaviors,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores

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

25 Mar 2025
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

ClimateCAP is an initiative manage by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business whose mission is to prepare business leaders to understand and respond to the climate challenge. They provide learning resources for MBA students interested in the intersection of business... View Details

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

14 Nov 2017
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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

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

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on the View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

data in a variety of business analysis and valuation contexts. The fourth edition of Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements allows you to undertake financial statement analysis using a four-part framework—(1) business strategy analysis for View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1998
News

Playing to Win

model that features directives from headquarters. Furthermore, at Adidas, an in-country head is a native of that country, whereas American companies often have Americans running their international divisions." Louis-Dreyfus devotes about half of his time to new View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

regulatory approval, the product was ready to launch. This October, the modlet will be honored for its innovation by the nonprofit Alliance to Save Energy. While ThinkEco targets businesses as its primary customers, Shibata (to the right,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

engrained in your organization, communicating the impact of this culture to potential new hires is very impactful. Case studies about how your organization has developed more inclusive practices or created new View Details

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

From product push to customer pull, technology has vastly reshaped the business transaction—and in turn, the customer's place in the value chain. Today, managing the customer relationship has become the single most important dimension of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

& Gamble Aguirre said the company followed several guiding principles in setting its Latin American strategy. It focused on strong global and regional brands, on global product development efforts, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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

March 2022 (Revised December 2022)
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Perch

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Stacy Straaberg and Julia Kelley

In May 2021, Perch CEO Chris Bell needed to decide whether his e-commerce aggregator company, which bought and scaled Amazon Marketplace brands, should acquire up to three acquisition targets. The prospective acquisitions, Web Deals Direct, HomeCo, and Future Brands,... View Details

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Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

Born and raised in Ghana, Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu saw “the impact that business and the private sector have on developing nations.” After graduating from Ashesi University College, she pursued a dynamic career at General Electric where she... View Details

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