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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
occupational licensing, personal/psychological costs, and economic costs. He is currently studying productivity effects of new forms of remote work, such as “work from anywhere” and “all-remote work”... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Verdant Power cofounder Ron Smith (MBA 1979) stands aside the East River in New York, where his company launched the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States. It’s a muggy July... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
management. The Development Factory by Gary P. Pisano (Harvard Business School Press) Product development has long been a source of advantage for firms. In The Development Factory: Unlocking the Potential of Process Innovation, Associate... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
sectors. A new book by HBS professor Janice H. Hammond and coauthors Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop (both of Harvard University), and David Weil (of Boston University) examines this transformation. A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing... View Details
- April 2008
- Case
A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products
By: Larry E. Greiner and Elizabeth Collins
Alex Sander is a new product manager whose drive and talents are attractive to management, but whose intolerant style has alienated employees. This tension is presented against the backdrop of a 360° performance review process. Sander works in the Toiletries Division... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Conflict Management; Behavior; Management Practices and Processes; Talent and Talent Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Problems and Challenges; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Europe
Greiner, Larry E., and Elizabeth Collins. "A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products." Harvard Business School Brief Case 082-177, April 2008.
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
in the world of digital communications will lie not in knowing how to engineer big technological breakthroughs but in how to develop products and services by creatively combining new and existing... View Details
- 27 Mar 2020
- News
A Healthy and Productive Guide to Virtual Meetings
- 2018
- Book
American Capitalism: New Histories
By: Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal... View Details
Beckert, Sven and Christine Desan, eds. American Capitalism: New Histories. Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Aug 2016
- News
Advanced Industries: A New Mental Model for a New Economy
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
other user pain points. By talking with users and observing how they used the app, I developed two additional product changes focused on improving onboarding for experienced learners: one that got users to View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
self-interest rather than in the interests of the whole. Thus, the decentralized organization must also develop new control systems. Jensen asserts that there are three main elements in an organization's total strategy: competitive,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
Rob Sundy (MBA 2004) has an unabashed fondness for Americana. It’s an interest he traces back to an unexpected source: his time as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. “It’s a historic unit,” says the West Point graduate, noting that many of the military’s heroes... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Career Wanted
When contemplating a move that will set your career on a new course, be sure to sharpen your navigational skills. “The research and preparation that go into making a move are crucial to success,” counsels Christine Sullivan, director of... View Details
- November 2009 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
New York Life and Immediate Annuities
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and John T. Gourville
By positioning Immediate Annuities as "guaranteed lifetime income," New York Life has built itself a $1.4 billion per year business by 2009. However, to make Immediate Annuities a mainstream financial product for retirees, New York Life must understand why many... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Personal Finance; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Retirement; Salesforce Management; Insurance Industry
Rotemberg, Julio J., and John T. Gourville. "New York Life and Immediate Annuities." Harvard Business School Case 510-040, November 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Managing Experimentation: Module Overview Note for Managing Product Development(Note for Instructor)
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Describes the conceptual foundations and pedagogy for a module on managing experimentation in the development of products and services. The module has been taught in the second-year elective MBA course Managing Product Development. The purpose of the module is to help... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
participate because of low skill level or low wealth. The initial product for this new market usually isn't very good; in fact, it's usually "crummy," Christensen said. But it's good enough. When... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne