Product Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

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Commencement 2019 Address | About

to drive improvements in education, to invest in reskilling the workforce, to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, and to develop innovative ways to combat climate change. We are relying on you to restore society’s trust in... View Details

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

as a developer of technical products for Fortune 500 companies, an executive of cutting-edge startups, and a venture capitalist for eight years. This case study also reviews how private equity investment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

Not long ago, the senior management of a leading high-tech company was surprised to learn that research showed their R&D groups' creative performance to be in a prolonged slump following a corporate downsizing. The company's executives fretted that many of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

But what if technology had the power to make a small business owner significantly wiser about their cash flow, and a lender wiser as well? What if new loan products and services made it easier to create what one investor calls a “truth... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

Fast Answer

Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments

black; border-left:none" valign="top"> Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology worldwide. Topics covered include advanced... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

CareerSearch. "We've negotiated special licenses for these services on the portal - services that are otherwise unavailable to individual subscribers," explains Michalak. A Community-Wide Effort The development of HBS Working Knowledge... View Details

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

pick up passengers with disabilities. “Suddenly entrepreneurship is not about who can build a better mousetrap, but who can better ignore the law and develop a corporate advantage for ignoring the law” Consider Uber, which is involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

wanted to be consulted and those on which he would fully trust his managers. He created a task force to review some of the company's key management processes—planning, budgeting, performance evaluation, new product rollout, View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

job description required her to arrive at the office 30 minutes ahead of her male colleagues to prepare tea and wipe down their desks, in uniform. She found more space to roam in the product development... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2010
News

Lords of Strategy

original Hendersonianism: “In this new environment, the essence of strategy is not the structure of a company’s position in products and markets, but the dynamics of its behaviors. The goal is to identify and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

caregiving, and the hearts of caregivers. The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain By Kate E. Bingham (MBA 1991) and Tim Hames Oneworld Publications As chair of the UK’s task force charged with developing an... View Details

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

the conclusion that you can’t do both research and business development at once.” “I think as a small company, I’m coming to the conclusion that you can’t do both research and business development at once.”... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Schorderet, debating how the company can defend and grow its position in Saudi Arabia while also finding new sources of future growth (e.g., bringing its production model to new markets with fragmented dairy sectors or entering new View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

to become a major product family. His success in that position propelled him to a series of other assignments, including a temporary one in strategic planning, that eventually landed him a promotion to vice president and general manager,... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive... View Details