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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
Michael Porter on health-care reform strategy (New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 2009). “There are relatively fewer and fewer consumers willing to pay a premium or suffer a deficit in product quality in order to be patriotic and... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
shift slightly in mindset to optimize for their work more often. Related Reading: Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All Why You Are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- Profile
Jake Flomenberg
startups and companies who are leaders in various technology fields and build relationships that I maintain to this day. How has HBS prepared you for your current role & your long term career? As a product manager, I leverage my HBS... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious production-control issues. Stuntz now has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
products next to Apple’s own products such as charging cables. Anker has also managed to partner with offline retailers Best Buy, Costco, Target, and Walmart and sell through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
similarly demands new kinds of management leadership, organizational forms, and institutional arrangements. Once again, HBS is in a position to prepare its students for the challenges and rewards of leading companies whose View Details
- November 1999 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Fresh Connections
Mary Alice McKenzie is facing numerous issues in growing her Vermont-based fresh-prepared foods business. She must address immediate operational problems--such as bottlenecks and capital equipment decisions--as well as decide on a long-term strategic position. This... View Details
West, Jonathan, Susan Harmeling, and Christian G. Kasper. "Fresh Connections." Harvard Business School Case 600-022, November 1999. (Revised November 2003.)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Design Moguls
The HBS Design Fair 2000, held December 4 in Kresge Hall, showcased final projects for the MBA elective course, Managing Product Development, taught by Associate Professor Stefan Thomke. Second-year students... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
Summing Up Is the Potential Negative Impact of New Information Technologies on Customer Loyalties Overstated? Customers will remain loyal to brands that meet their needs, regardless of the effects of new information technologies on their general knowledge about View Details
- May 1989
- Teaching Note
Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (B), Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-188-143). View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
effectiveness – I will essentially be a general athlete supporting the management team and a number of other functional areas.” Aaron’s internship began on June 11 in Los Angeles. He’s confident it will be a View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
It’s going to be a beautiful summer…
portions of your audience variations. This way you can compare differences in response rate/actions of the variations against the control. Pretty technical! But that’s the beauty of Sephora: the stark contrast and intimate blend of beauty View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- April 1988 (Revised September 1989)
- Case
Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (C)
Provides the rationale behind the design of the new cost system. View Details
Cooper, Robin. "Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (C)." Harvard Business School Case 188-144, April 1988. (Revised September 1989.)
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
also differentiated by percentage of cacao solids, from 50 percent to 70 percent. In her HBS application essays, Endline wrote of wanting to start a business but instead went to Yahoo! as a product manager... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production
- Profile
Cynthia Samanian
through the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, including the Minimum Viable Product Fund (MVP) and Business Plan Competition. Overall, these experiences at HBS gave me the confidence to pursue my goal of working at a startup and eventually... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
recommends alternatives that can result in stronger companies in the long run and reduce the damage layoffs do to workers and communities. “Typical layoffs harm employees, communities, and companies,” Sucher says. Mass layoffs were uncommon prior to the late 1970s,... View Details
- October 2022
- Supplement
The SAH Group: The Time is Right, Instructor Spreadsheet
By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar
In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, CEO of the SAH Group, was preparing to present the company’s future growth plans to its board of directors. The Tunisian company was a leading producer and distributor of personal care and packaged hygiene products. In 2019, it expanded... View Details
Keywords: Growth Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Decisions; Growth Management; Vertical Integration; Distribution; Competition; Strategy; Supply Chain; Presentations; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Tunisia
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
prices. Third, opening new stores and launching a blizzard of new products create only superficial growth. Such strategies take top management's eye off of improving same store sales year-on-year. This is the heavy lifting of retailing,... View Details