Production Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2015 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Corning, 2002

Corning, with large investments in fiber optic technology, was hit particularly hard by the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2001. With over $4 billion in debt, the firm's survival appears to rest on raising additional equity capital. James Flaws, the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Condition; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Capital; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry

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01 Mar 2003
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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

Keywords: Laura Morgan Roberts; Stephane Cote; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the... View Details

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

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 Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

01 Sep 2017
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Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable

US elections. David Perpich (MBA 2007) oversaw the development of that groundbreaking paywall and has led the company in the development of successful new digital products such as NYT Cooking. Now we ask Perpich—named president and... View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

John W. Brown

by 2004, and the number of employees increased from 325 to 15,000 during the same time period. Brown steadfastly expanded the company’s product lines and introduced an effective decentralized management... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

18 Mar 2014
Blog Post

BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up

where she managed the development, launch, and operations of their e-commerce business. Also, be ready for a possible multi-step job process, Julia said. Maybe you work in tech over the summer (think Yahoo, etc.) and then in your 2nd... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

July 2010 (Revised March 2016)
Case

MacroMarkets LLC

By: Robin Greenwood and Luis M. Viceira

MacroMarkets co-founder and CEO Samuel Masucci III is meeting with a strategic partner for his firm. Co-founded with Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, MacroMarkets' main innovation is the "MacroShare," which allows investors to take long or short, levered or... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Financial Instruments; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Innovation and Invention; Risk Management; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Financial Services Industry

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Jeremy Sasson

specifications.” Seeking more influence on the customer-facing part of the product, Jeremy moved from software development into product management at DocuSign, participating in a View Details

Keywords: Tech

October 2014
Supplement

Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 Powerpoint Supplement

By: Mihir Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer

This is the PowerPoint supplement to the teaching note: Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A) - (B), number 215-022. View Details

Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Republic of Ireland

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October 2014
Teaching Note

Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A) and (B)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Elizabeth Meyer

This is the teaching note to HBS case 214-085: Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A). View Details

Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Republic of Ireland

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01 Dec 2013
News

Single Mom at 15 Now Silicon Valley Star

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

about their activities to make sure they're in sync with where the boss is trying to take the business. Q: To traditional ratios like return on assets and return on equity, you add a new qualitative measure called return on management... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

01 Sep 2012
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Faculty Books

How did the United States lose its leading edge in producing innovative goods and services? Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Shih, professor of management practice, demonstrate the disastrous... View Details

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

01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers

movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Tom Nicholas Associate Professor of Business Administration Emma Rothschild Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History Website Design and Production : Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work

was very thoughtful about these questions, and described his concerns about the next 10 to 20 years if we don’t manage the workforce transformation in a productive way,” says Kerr. “I don’t see technology as... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

07 Mar 2019
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Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

“And today, we have 250 to 300 products and brands that are properly represented at a store level. We're also starting to develop our own set of products and brands to try to maximize the possibilities of a... View Details