New Product Diffusion - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1996
News

Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

This column, which first appeared in the August 18, 1996, edition of the New York Times, was adapted from Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff's new book, Co-opetition, published last summer by... View Details

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

investments in research and development, was emphasized by several respondents. Mark Hopkinson remarked that "most big companies rely for their tech pipeline of new products on the innovation that comes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Nathalie du Preez

career? I grew up in South Africa, was educated in the U.S., and have also lived and worked in the U.K., France and India. After HBS I was looking for a career that could provide similar international opportunities. In September 2010, I started working at... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

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Insurance company filings: Statutory reports

Where can I find insurance company's statutory reports? Here is what you can do: go to S&P Capital IQ Pro type in the company name at the top search box select from choices on left to view Corporate Profile, News and reports... View Details

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Ann Chao

your cases are the moral dilemmas. Students push themselves to be genuine and accountable.” Ann’s FIELD 2 experience took her into new territory, both literally – to Accra, Ghana – and figuratively, into the world of consumer products.... View Details

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MBA > Academic-experience > Joint Degree Programs > Engineering Sciences | MBA

Download Fact Sheet (PDF) Play Harvard MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Info Session video Play Video duration: 30:42 Curriculum Faculty & Advisors Admissions & Financial Aid Frequently Asked Questions More Frequently Asked Questions What is the mission of the program? How... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

An Economy Undermined

our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S. View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Behavioral Finance — Benefiting... View Details

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

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

to choose a home page provided by a competitor). The second principle focuses on opportunity: specifically, opportunity that is facilitated by giving developers platform access and the ability to innovate and build on platform technologies to create View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)

Omowale Casselle What does your work involve? "My official title is director of product management, SAMPLEit, a new venture at redbox. In this role, I'm responsible for leveraging technology across our... View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

rejections personally because their requests were merely a few among the thousands of pieces of mail that Harpo Productions received every week. The experience also taught them the value of teamwork and the necessity of not allowing each... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

Leland I. Doan

Doan was responsible for Dow Chemical’s greatest diversification and expansion. Doan began by delegating increased authority to department heads and building a larger sales force trained to become market and production analysts. Upon... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

resources are limited, and there are more than enough attractive ways to use them - whether for tactical investment in product quality or strategic investments in new market development." A Global Issue Fri... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

build in. And they're sort of selling that stealth, and this has become a whole new industry. DM: Yeah. Let's talk about that from a company perspective, right? They're looking to identify products perhaps... View Details

02 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

cycle can mean the difference between a small business growing or just staying flat. And, the good news is that we’re seeing innovative ideas in both policy and products on this front—ideas that actually... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

01 Jun 2014
News

The Digital Deck

blackboards. When a participant speaks, his or her face appears onscreen; a discussion leader and in-studio production team orchestrate the give-and-take that is so central to the traditional HBS classroom. HBX Live will create View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

deliver, they go. I think that is pretty clear to everybody,” says Natarajan. Natarajan led the company’s turnaround by instituting an annual Vision Community exercise, which invites selected employees at all levels to join in brainstorming sessions to identify ideas... View Details

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Luc Sirois

lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

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