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Best Practices for Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP
Differentiated products demand systems are a workhorse for understanding the price effects of mergers, the value of new goods, and the contribution of products to seller networks. Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) provide a flexible random coefficients logit model... View Details
Conlon, Chris, and Jeff Gortmaker. "Best Practices for Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP." RAND Journal of Economics 51, no. 4 (2020): 1108–1161.
- March 2020
- Article
Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation
By: Vikas A. Aggarwal, David H. Hsu and Andy Wu
How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation? While access to diverse knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of achieving that: diversity... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Recombination; Organization Design; Team Boundary; Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Diversity; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Human Capital; Organizational Design
Aggarwal, Vikas A., David H. Hsu, and Andy Wu. "Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation." Art. 1. Strategy Science 5, no. 1 (March 2020): 1–16. (Lead article.)
- September 2008 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
By 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Entrepreneurial Finance; New Product Development; Partnerships; Entrepreneurial Management; Venture Capital; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; Financial Services Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, William A. Sahlman, and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 809-004, September 2008. (Revised July 2012.)
- May 2009
- Case
Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products
By: John H. McArthur and Sunru Yong
Ceres is a leading player in the growing organic gardening industry, selling seeds, small plants, and related items. Their distribution depends heavily on retail sales through independent nurseries and garden centers. Because these small dealers are unable to finance... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Procedures; Marketing; Business Growth; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Marketing Channels; Credit; Financial Statements; Sales; Retail Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
McArthur, John H., and Sunru Yong. "Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-017, May 2009.
- 10 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
to clean it again through my novel filter. I had filed the patent. Lined up suppliers. Met the ridiculous margin requirements of a Fortune 500 company. The category was declining. Our last two product View Details
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New Markets
In today's business environment, every organization faces pressure to deliver sustained growth and profitability. Yet technological advances shorten product life cycles, business models change, and unanticipated competition surfaces from... View Details
- November – December 1993
- Response
'Is It Too Late for Pacer to Change Course?' A Response to 'When New Products and Customer Loyalty Collide'
Leonard-Barton, D. A. "'Is It Too Late for Pacer to Change Course?' A Response to 'When New Products and Customer Loyalty Collide'." Harvard Business Review 71, no. 6 (November–December 1993): 25–28.
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Weekend Sprints: A New HBS Signature Event?
- April 2006 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen, Robert S. Huckman and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Considers whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok--a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Competition; Consolidation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Robert S. Huckman, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 606-094, April 2006. (Revised June 2008.)
- 18 Jan 2019
- News
The Stealth Productivity Drain on American Workers
- 19 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Aspen Fellowship: MBA Student Launches Program Supporting Black Undergrads
need to succeed in corporate America. Fellows will be paired with advisors who manage the project’s scope, development, and overall direction. At the conclusion of the program, fellows will have spent valuable time implementing their advisors’ feedback, learning about... View Details
- 28 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
"Often companies don't fully exploit the latest ideas that their product has created," says Ahuja, who wrote the paper with Curba Lampert of Florida International University and Elena Novelli of City University London.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2022
- News
From Strength to Strength: A Book Launch Event with Arthur C. Brooks
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
With the 2000-2001 academic year in full swing, the expanding HBS faculty — now more than two hundred members strong — has seen a number of promotions, accessions to chaired professorships, movement of previously chaired professors to vacated chairs, and, in two cases,... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
set for massive positive impact, and the demand is there; the only real impediment is bold philanthropy,” Wolf says. At HBS, Wolf studied with Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation describes a process by which a View Details
- 21 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products
do the work to find those companies and help them grow.” A Dynamic Industry Needs Dynamic Recruiting Consumer Products is a dynamic and ever changing industry that attracts students who relate to, and are excited about, specific products.... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details