Publications

September 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Palm Computing: The Pilot Organizer

Palm Computing appears to be the first to have gotten it "right" in the PDA (personal digital assistant) market. Palm Computing has designed a radically new product which will appeal to certain market segments. However, it is unclear how Palm Computing will fare... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Product Launch; Electronics Industry

01 Mar 2009
News

Alumni Books

innovation management breakdown, premature core abandonment, and talent shortfall. The book includes methods for articulating and monitoring strategic assumptions and ends with a self-test built around fifty signs of an impending growth... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

exercise unless management approaches them with military discipline." Mike Kirkeberg goes even further in saying, "All new management philosophies and strategies work ... until they don’t. ... It seems very simple: Make a good... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2008
News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters of Intent), the new... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

traffic are sufficiently improved relative to the offerings of the ad auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Investing in Improvement: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

to capital for small businesses froze. For years after, the outlook was bleak. In Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, Mills—the former U.S. Small Business Administrator and Senior Fellow at HBS— focuses on the needs of small... View Details

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

unveiled its Signature Crafted Menu, featuring three upscale sandwich accompaniments: pico guacamole, sweet BBQ bacon, and maple bacon Dijon, adorning either chicken or burger. “Our strategy is to innovate... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

July 1997
Case

We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation's Cardiac Pacemaker Business

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Illustrates how a new management team at Medtronic's Cardiac Pacemaker business reversed a steep decline in market share by adopting certain management principles for new product development: clarifying strategy, aggregating project planning, accommodating the number... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Health; Technology; Change Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

November 2020
Case

The Rise and Fall of Nokia (Abridged)

By: Juan Alcácer and Tarun Khanna

In 2013, Nokia sold its Device and Services business to Microsoft for €5.4 billion. For decades Nokia had led the telecommunications (telecom) industry in handsets and networking. By the late 2000s, however, Nokia's position as market leader in mobile devices was... View Details

Keywords: Mobile Phones; Smartphones; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Emerging Markets; Technological Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Telecommunications Industry