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- 2016
- Working Paper
Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle
By: David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein and Egon Zakrajsek
Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean reversion in credit-market conditions.... View Details
Lopez-Salido, David, Jeremy C. Stein, and Egon Zakrajsek. "Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21879, January 2016.
- May 1976 (Revised January 1985)
- Background Note
Life Cycle Analysis for Manufacturing Planning
Abernathy, William. "Life Cycle Analysis for Manufacturing Planning." Harvard Business School Background Note 676-170, May 1976. (Revised January 1985.)
- May 2005
- Article
Break Free from the Product Life Cycle
By: Youngme Moon
Moon, Youngme. "Break Free from the Product Life Cycle." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 5 (May 2005).
- 2018
- Working Paper
Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing.
By: Xiaojia Guo, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr. and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
We introduce an exponential smoothing model that a manager can use to forecast the demand of a new product or service. The model has five features that make it suitable for accurately forecasting product life cycles at scale. First, the trend in our model follows the... View Details
Keywords: New Product Development; Demand Forecasting; Product Adoption; Innovation Diffusion; Product Development; Demand and Consumers; Forecasting and Prediction; Adoption
Guo, Xiaojia, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., and Yael Grushka-Cockayne. "Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-038, October 2018. (Darden Business School Working Paper, No. 2805244, July 2016.)
- December 2018 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale
By: Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi and Johanna Mair
Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Instituto Dara in 1991 to help poor families break the cycle of poverty and illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on... View Details
Keywords: Social Innovation; NGO; Scaling; Health; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Poverty; Health Industry; South America; Brazil
Battilana, Julie, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi, and Johanna Mair. "Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale." Harvard Business School Case 419-048, December 2018. (Revised July 2023.)
- September 2010 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time ≠ Cycle Time?
By: Willy Shih and Ethan Bernstein
The case was prepared to be used as part of a process review in the first year Technology and Operations Management course at HBS. It offers students an opportunity to discuss the context of a manufacturing process choice, and then examine actual production numbers... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Research and Development; Design; Six Sigma; Measurement and Metrics; Production
Shih, Willy, and Ethan Bernstein. "Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time ≠ Cycle Time?" Harvard Business School Case 611-012, September 2010. (Revised December 2012.)
- December 2007 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling
Montague has developed a major innovation that creates a new sub-category in the bicycle industry: a full-sized, high-quality bicycle that folds. In contrast to existing small-wheeled folding bicycles that are portable, but with inferior performance characteristics,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Adoption; Bicycle Industry
Tripsas, Mary. "Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling." Harvard Business School Case 808-087, December 2007. (Revised July 2008.)
- 1997
- Book
Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business
By: K. Gersick, J. A. Davis, M. M. Hampton and I. Lansberg
Gersick, K., J. A. Davis, M. M. Hampton, and I. Lansberg. Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous boom in the venture capital industry. The pool of U.S. venture capital funds has grown from less than $1 billion in 1976 (Charles River Associates 1976) to over $60 billion in 1999. This growth has outstripped that... View Details
- June 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Teaching Note
Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling
By: Mary Tripsas
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Edward Chang noticed something interesting: To fill the vacancy, then-President Donald Trump replaced Ginsburg with another woman, Amy Coney Barrett, even though... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research
- September 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Teaching Note
Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time =/= Cycle Time? (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 611012. View Details
Keywords: Electronics Industry
- 1994
- Article
Accelerating the Design-build-test Cycle for Effective Product Development
By: S. C. Wheelwright and K. B. Clark
Wheelwright, S. C., and K. B. Clark. "Accelerating the Design-build-test Cycle for Effective Product Development." International Marketing Review 11, no. 1 (1994): 32–46.
- 2005
- Working Paper
The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research
By: Paul R. Carlile and Clayton M. Christensen
Carlile, Paul R., and Clayton M. Christensen. "The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-057, February 2005.
- 1998
- Chapter
Resource Configurations Over the Life Cycle of Ventures
By: M. M. Hart, C. Brush and P. Greene
- May 2009
- Article
On the Integration of Growth and Business Cycles
By: Diego Comin
Comin, Diego. "On the Integration of Growth and Business Cycles." Empirica 36, no. 2 (May 2009).
- December 2003
- Article
Stochastic Technical Progress, Smooth Trends, and Nearly Distinct Business Cycles
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Stochastic Technical Progress, Smooth Trends, and Nearly Distinct Business Cycles." American Economic Review 93, no. 5 (December 2003): 1543–1559.