Publications

1995
Book

The Product Development Challenge: Competing through Speed, Quality, and Creativity

By: K. B. Clark and S. C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Product Development

Web

Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Driving Profitable Growth Course Number 2165 Professor Juan Alcacer Professor Raffaella Sadun Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Course Overview Virtually every organization considers View Details

Article

Trade-offs between Productivity and Quality in Selecting Software Development Practices

By: Alan MacCormack, Chris F. Kemerer, Michael A. Cusumano and Bill Crandall

Keywords: Quality; Applications and Software; Research and Development; Practice; Performance Productivity

Article

Market Integration in Developed and Emerging Markets: Evidence from the CAPM

By: Robert Bruner, Wei Li, Mark Kritzman, Simon Myrgren and Sebastien Page

Beta, as measured by the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), is widely used for pricing stocks, determining the cost of capital, and gauging the extent to which markets are integrated. The CAPM model assumes that equilibrium conditions prevail. The choice of which... View Details

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December 2022
Article

The Contribution of Price Growth to Pharmaceutical Revenue Growth in the United States: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies

By: Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew and Amitabh Chandra

Context: To what extent does pharmaceutical revenue growth depend on new medicines versus increasing prices for existing medicines? Moreover, does using list prices, as is commonly done, instead of prices net of confidential rebates offered by manufacturers, which are... View Details

Keywords: Revenue; Price; Policy; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry

June 2023 (Revised August 2023)
Background Note

Subscription Models: Recurring Revenues for Lasting Growth

By: Elie Ofek and Amy Konary

This note offers a comprehensive exposition to subscription revenue models and aims to explain their recent rise. It covers the advantages to firms of employing a subscription-based approach to monetization (as opposed to “one-off” upfront payment), as well as the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Revenue; Product Design

Educators

There is growing interest in impact investing, the idea of deploying capital to obtain both financial and social or environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation, one of the largest and... View Details

30 Jun 2021
News

What Drives Growth in Midsize Firms?

June 2020
Teaching Note

Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A) and (B)

By: Laura Huang and Elizabeth Jiang

2009
Book

Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950

By: Aldo Musacchio

In Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil

2003
Working Paper

Internet Companies' Growth Strategies: Determinants of Investment Intensity and Long Term Performance

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy

Web

Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Economic Development in ... Economic View Details

November 2018
Case

Cepuros Foods Malaysia: Finding the Secret Sauce for Growth (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine B. Hartman

Shelby Diaz, country manager for Cepuros Foods International—Malaysia (CFI-M), must decide a growth strategy for the expansion of CFI-M's line of salsas, particularly regarding whom to target and how to allocate marketing investments. CFI-M could expand aggressively by... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Communications; Product Positioning

Educators

2024
Book

The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to Developing and Leveraging Your Leadership Capital

By: Archie Jones

In The Treasure You Seek, I share my lessons in leadership―focused on the notion of leadership capital and the 5 Cs (capability, culture, communication, connection, and confidence). Each of the 5 Cs is a tool for readers to develop and deploy leadership capital... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career

2007
Working Paper

Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton

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04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

Tell us about what you were doing before joining HBS and what inspired you to join the Career & Professional Development team. I joined HBS in 2010, one year after graduating from law school, in the... View Details

Six Myths of Product Development

Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused techniques. While this tactic can boost the performance of factories, it generally backfires with... View Details

March 2022
Supplement

Washio (C): From Growth to Margin

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman