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- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
the company's success: Its product development relies less on finding out what customers want than it does on what its employees think would be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
including NFL and NHL teams. Use cases also include military and elder care markets. All told, Unger estimates peak revenues to reach about $375 million. Nix is still in the midst of product development, but View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
structure became expensive to maintain. Philips responded by installing a matrix organization—with countries and product divisions as its two legs—and spent roughly two decades trying, without much success,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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5.2 Use of Harvard Name & Logo | MBA
for Harvard Business School are found on the Marketing & Communications Brand & Style Guide website . Policies & Guidelines The Harvard University Office for Technology and Trademark and Licensing must authorize any use of trademarks, such as the school’s name and... View Details
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Kemi Akenzua | MBA
emerge better equipped to navigate the future of the technology industry. Tech areas of interest: I’m very interested in user design, product management, and tech policy. Additionally, I’m passionate technology as View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
we first launched InMobi, it became the first company in the product space to essentially kind of, you know, go from east into the west. There’ve been numerous companies in the enterprise View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
trends for the apparel industry, with J. Crew and Century 21 Stores filing for bankruptcy, while ecommerce sales saw double-digit growth. We set out to compare consumers who already shopped online before the pandemic with those who started buying View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
high-value innovation that was conceptually and strategically right for us." An initiative launched by Lafley calls upon P&G to find half of its new products outside its walls,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
wanted to do with my life and career. As I listened to him, I realized that he’d figured it out. He wanted to do something that was important in the social context, to be successful in the business context, and to have a deep and... View Details
Hans W. Becherer
Becherer rebuilt Deere & Company, following the financial farm crisis of the 1980s, into a diverse, global competitor. In 1998, revenues from outside the United States accounted for approximately 25% of Deere & Company sales. Becherer so successfully... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Camille Dreyfus
Celanese Corporation showed a profit every year after 1925 with its breakthrough year coming in 1939. The company grew by 700% from 1929-1939. By 1940, Dreyfus held 233 patents in the U.S., most of which were concerned with the View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
that group. This is particularly important when building for busy parents, because they don’t have time for so-so products. But give them a product that five friends have said is incredible, and it will take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
India’s Oil
areas of concern: pressure on government spending, the need to attract domestic and foreign investment, and oil prices. “I think oil prices are outrageous,” said Chidambaram, whose country imports 70 percent of its petroleum.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
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 new... View Details
James E. Burke
When Burke took over Johnson & Johnson, the company had thousands of products including Tylenol, which had a 35% share of the analgesic market. Two incidents of cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules dropped Tylenol’s market share to 7%.... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Lever Brothers’ Lifebuoy Soap, launched in 1926, warned of the grave personal and business consequences caused by “body odor,” a concept which Lever invented and its products prevented. Hygiene was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
customers, it is hard to match the interaction of the kiosk. At the heart of the challenge is the question of positioning: Lovepop makes a product that looks a bit like a greeting card, but acts much more... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load but needed to arrange debtor in possession... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
East, and in Cuba, where he was introduced to it last April while attending an ozone symposium. Murray reports that results from the treatment to date have been unspectacular but decidedly positive, with some new sensation in his affected... View Details