New Product Diffusion - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1997
News

Honorable Mention

Association's task force on admissions, were recognized for their efforts to help develop a long-term strategy to boost admission of women to the MBA Program. David Hughes, section president, student senator, and HBS Show production... View Details

Alvin G. Brush

In 1935, American Home Products purchased Brush’s company, Affiliated Products, Incorporated and installed Brush as AHP’s new CEO. Over the next thirty years, Brush presided over a massive growth and... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Joseph C. Wilson II

Having grown up in his father’s photography products firm, Haloid Company, Wilson knew the business well enough to spot the need for Haloid to find a new technology in which to invest. He found such a... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

across other product categories, including both mass and luxury segments, and geographically. In the Eyes of the Beholder The spread of megabrands, and the continued diffusion of French and American beauty... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

Student-Profile

Mengjie "Magie" Cheng

behaviors in greater detail, she started to investigate the possibility of a Ph.D. “My interests were quite broad when I applied, but centered around technological innovation and new product diffusion,”... View Details

John W. Culligan

Culligan capped off a 49-year career with American Home Products as its CEO from 1981 to 1986. During his tenure he doubled AHP’s research & development budget, building a pipeline of 24 new drugs and 48... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Joseph A. Martino

Starting with the company as a 16 year old office boy, Martino went on to transform National Lead into one of the country’s leading industrial producers of lead products and paints. During his tenure as CEO, National Lead was among the... View Details

Keywords: Metals

Thomas Adams, Jr.

Experimenting with chicle (a gum substance from the Mexican Spodilla tree), Adams discovered a commercial use for the substance by utilizing it in the manufacture of a chewing gum. Adams developed public acceptance of this new and unique... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Sep 2005
News

Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point

first-ever for teenagers, was inspired by the success of a preteen program begun in 2003. After turning the discussion to favorite products (portable CD players were popular) as well as to others that didn’t work so well (toasters came in... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
News

A Call to Innovation

much as 80 percent of gross domestic product flows from the introduction of new technologies. But at the end of the day (and that end may be arriving sooner rather than later, the book suggests), Kao... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information; Management

Student-Profile

Anil Doshi

services. We collected individual performance data and found tremendous potential in providing beneficial services to our users that required the aggregation of that data. I became more interested in understanding how the disclosure, aggregation, and View Details

Jerry Della Femina

Della Femina was part of a new breed of executives that shook up the staid world of advertising in the late sixties. Wildly creative and eccentric, Della Femina pushed the envelope of provocative advertising throughout his career. He... View Details

Keywords: Services

Floyd L. Carlisle

Carlisle purchased Northern New York Utilities with a group of paper manufacturers, which allowed St. Regis Paper and the other involved paper mills to control their own supply of electric power. Acquiring Hanna Paper Corporation in 1921,... View Details

Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

January 2014
Article

Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations

By: J. Brogaard, J. Engelberg and Christopher Parsons

Using detailed publication and citation data for over 50,000 articles from 30 major economics and finance journals, we investigate whether network proximity to an editor influences research productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Performance Productivity; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

the brothers next took to expanding Loew’s into the hotel business, buying hotels in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. By 1968, the brothers had built Loews into the third largest hotel operator, with assets of $278 million and... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Samuel B. Colgate

Despite the fact that Colgate’s term as head of Colgate-Palmolive came at the height of the Depression, Colgate was able to grow the company significantly. When Colgate took over, the company had $62 million in annual sales. Five years later, Colgate had increased... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Gilbert Colgate

Colgate merged with the Peet Company and B. J. Johnson, maker of Palmolive soap, the largest selling soap brand in America in the early 1900s. Colgate led the newly merged Colgate, Palmolive-Peet Company with assets of $63 million. The company’s volume increased... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

01 Dec 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

It has been a busy fall here at HBS! Reunions went off without a hitch in early October (be sure to note the photos on page 14), the Alumni Board had a productive meeting on October 16 and 17, and record numbers of alumni volunteers plan... View Details

Guy W. Vaughan

Vaughan was instrumental in the creation of products such as the Wright Whirlwind J-6 plane, used by Charles Lindbergh, and the Wright Cyclone engine series, which were used in DC-1 aircraft. Vaughan’s real achievements, however, came... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

ratings were gathered using a two-round Delphi (in which information from the first round is given to all experts to help them make their final assessment). To assess the resource productivity of each project, the researchers calculated a... View Details

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology

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