New Product Diffusion - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2000
News

A Plastic Fantastic Friendship

collectors, according to an obituary in the New York Times (August 23,2000). "We plunged instead of hedging," Morse once explained, "and after a while I was becoming known as the nut who was backing a dark horse. Or vice versa." During... View Details

Keywords: Salvador Dali; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing

19 Apr 2016
News

LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility

Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization... View Details

Keywords: Blavatnik; Scientific Research and Development Services

Career Coach

Sasha Grinshpun

learning languages, including Russian, Portuguese and Spanish. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and their two daughters. Having coached over 3000 business executives, Sasha has been featured in such prominent news forums as NPR... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

diverse units, employees, and constituencies. In this chapter, we describe how effective leaders customize their organization's measurement and management system to partner with their employees for strategy implementation. We also discuss how the View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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Company, topic, & industry alerts

How do I set up an alert for articles/new info on a specific company, topic or industry? Baker Library Industry Highlights: Newsletters curated by Baker librarians covering major players and HBS recruiters, analysis of trends in the industry and the... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

employees much more effectively—creating high-performance teams reliably, matching people to projects that fit both their skills and their interests, and dramatically increasing the probability that work will be productively creative. We... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Leading Change

doubling down in China, where over half of its workers are based. Yang aspires to introduce new competitive strategies to the entire textile and apparel industry, and to be a leader in positive economic development in China. Esquel is... View Details

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, and S’well. From... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

Lots of people have great ideas for new products and services, but most lack the imagination and doggedness to actually get them launched. Darren Rovell is a notable exception. As a college student, he had a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

16 Mar 2023
Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

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

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

productivity in the service sector has been accompanied by increasing employment, a phenomenon somewhat at odds with experience in the glory days of manufacturing. Thanks in part to new technology, service... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog

company asks individuals or other businesses to trade good money for the products and services it offers, that ineffective pricing practices tend to creep in and value regrettably “leaks out” of the relationship—making both parties, and... View Details

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- 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... View Details

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

percent over the 2002-2007 period. Since 2000, the annual release of new albums has more than doubled, and worldwide feature film production since 2003 is up by more than 30 percent. How markets for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Jun 1997
News

HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus

student volunteers from the Communications, Media, and Computing Ventures Club who organized seven provocative panel discussions and a number of leading-edge product demonstrations and entrepreneurial workshops. The two-day event... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside the Bestseller List with Neil Pasricha

equipment” went viral, and in 2009 the site won a coveted Webby Award. A book deal soon followed. The first Book of Awesome was a bestseller, with more than a million copies sold, and spawned a top-rated TED Talk and a series of books and other View Details

Keywords: April White

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

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

or six companies, and it's very possible they could be competitors with each other" sometimes, he said, simply because it's as important to support the development of the technology. A company does not have to be first to market with a View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

empty. Dennis Campbell and Tatiana Sandino discuss their new case study. How to Be a Rebel Leader In the book Rebel Talent, Francesca Gino argues companies should encourage rebellion in their workplaces. Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I... View Details