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- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
like product attributes, pricing, and distribution. My vision of the future changed to product management in the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
consortium of asset management companies (AMCs) that included the Turkish branch of Lehman Brothers. When Lehman went bankrupt, Turkasset acquired a $200 million portfolio of non-performing loans (NPLs). After that, it continued to... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Living up to Purpose and Performance at Parker Hannifin
By: Hubert Joly, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter
In 2019, Parker Hannifin, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of motion and control technologies, did something unusual for an industrial company: it created a purpose statement. Even though it already had a clear business strategy and longstanding culture of... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Communication Strategy; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Cleveland; Ohio; United States
Joly, Hubert, Alicia Dadlani, and Martha Hostetter. "Living up to Purpose and Performance at Parker Hannifin." Harvard Business School Case 525-015, July 2024.
- October 2009
- Case
Digital Chocolate
By: Linda A. Hill and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Trip Hawkins founded Digital Chocolate in Silicon Valley in 2003 to develop outstanding games for mobile devices. By 2008, the company had expanded its operations into four countries, and Digital Chocolate was one of the top developers of soloplayer games for standard... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry
Hill, Linda A., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Digital Chocolate." Harvard Business School Case 410-049, October 2009.
- November 2003
- Case
Procter & Gamble 2000 (B)
By: William A. Sahlman and Ryland Matthew Willis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Launch; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Ryland Matthew Willis. "Procter & Gamble 2000 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 804-100, November 2003.
- October 2007 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
On August 1, 2007, 61-year-old Jan-Olaf Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Auto Industry; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Norway
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and David Kiron. "TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company." Harvard Business School Case 808-070, October 2007. (Revised April 2009.)
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Laurie Matthews
her husband live in Boston’s South End with their crazy Portuguese Water Dog and awesome cat. Work Experience: Advertising Account Management at Y&R; Deutsch; Grey; Arnold, among others View Details
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Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog
iteration, metrics that matter and developing a product and operations roadmap. Establishing The Startup Organization: Structuring early teams and the processes by which to operate your business. Topics will include: Who to hire and when... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
companies students are interested in as well, from startups to high growth to the Fortune 500. Product management continues to be a popular functional area for students eager to use their general View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
of antique mustard pots to posters from the Napa Valley Mustard Festival, where the company's product has earned more than a few gold medals. Less expected is the sculpture of a phoenix that graces the office of Plochman's president,... View Details
- April 1999 (Revised August 1999)
- Case
R&B Falcon
R&B Falcon is the world's leading offshore drilling contractor. Amid surging exploration budgets and increasing deepwater drilling activity, the company makes huge investments in several new state-of-the art $300 million ultra-deep-water drilling rigs. As day rates and... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Change Management; Industry Growth; Mining; Product Marketing; Mining Industry
Corts, Kenneth S. "R&B Falcon." Harvard Business School Case 799-110, April 1999. (Revised August 1999.)
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a great performer at one company can replicate that performance at another," they... View Details
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Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response The Collection The Medium The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
Aragon worked alongside Executive Producer Ruby Kam (HBS '03) and Production Manager Jonathan Mendelson (MBA '02). “The talent here is amazing,” said Kam. “People come to HBS to get a business degree, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
unsatisfied, they need to have a means of communicating their emotions.” Interestingly, when employees are asked to amplify certain positive emotions — to deliver a product with a smile, for instance — their job satisfaction increases.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
on information and computer systems, control, environmental and nonprofit management, and production and operations management (POM). He was POM chairman from 1968 to 1972. In retirement, McKenney continued... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Information Age business innovations include: Digital production and distribution technologies (broadband and wireless networks, sophisticated content creation, flexible knowledge management) An operating model (integrated supply chains... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
creating marketing efficiencies. Although the digital revolution promised to democratize content production and distribution, the reality is that blockbuster strategies are more applicable and entrenched than ever before. Citing companies... View Details
- August 1991 (Revised September 1994)
- Background Note
What Is Industrial Marketing?
Discusses the key distinguishing aspects of industrial as compared to consumer marketing. These differences are highlighted for organizational as well as marketing mix aspects. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Core Relationships; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "What Is Industrial Marketing?" Harvard Business School Background Note 592-012, August 1991. (Revised September 1994.)