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- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even generate sales) or pitch the idea for... View Details
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Introduction – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
exhaustive archival record of the experiments reveals the art and science of this seminal behavioral study—and the questions and theories it generated about the relationship of productivity to the needs and motivations of the industrial... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies
- 06 Jun 2023
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Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
which they are harvested. Chip System Installed in New Facility. Image source: The authors. This digitalization strategy allows the company to monitor the harvesting progress, collect and gather data and continuously improve View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
Concept to Product draws on the extensive holdings of the Polaroid Corporation Collection at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. This remarkably comprehensive collection... View Details
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Credits - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Credits Website Credits Supported by the de Gaspé de Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School Project manager: Karen Bailey, Historical Collections, Baker Library Production manager: Ben Dubrovsky, Baker Library Information... View Details
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A5): Solaris 7: Rich Green on Product Strategy and Culture Change
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Solaris, Sun Microsystems' version of the UNIX operating system, was an amorphous collection of capabilities that had accumulated over the years, a product the company vaguely wished it could market and sell better. Developing and marketing Solaris 7 would help... View Details
Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia
Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective,... View Details
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Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
programs included the introduction of safety shoes, eye goggles, and guards for heavy machinery. To better understand worker productivity and job satisfaction, Western Electric became increasingly interested in studies from the social,... View Details
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: Advertising Products National Markets... View Details
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Electroplating - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The... View Details
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The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
and inspection operations, and Western Electric became one of the forerunners in applying scientific management (inspired in part by Frederick Taylor’s time and motion studies) to its production units. Employee Welfare Illumination... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
From Concept to Product Left: Patent 3,142,567, July 28, 1964. Polaroid Corporation Legal and Patent Records, b. II.165, f. 12. Right: Patent 2,435,720, Feb. 10, 1948. Polaroid Corporation Records Related to Meroë Morse, b. VII.10, f. 24.... View Details
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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Next A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana A New Vision Fritz J. Roethlisberger, ca. 1958. Yousuf Karsh, photographer. © YOUSUF KARSH The Hawthorne Studies began in 1924 as an attempt to improve worker View Details
- April 2008
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A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products
By: Larry E. Greiner and Elizabeth Collins
Alex Sander is a new product manager whose drive and talents are attractive to management, but whose intolerant style has alienated employees. This tension is presented against the backdrop of a 360° performance review process. Sander works in the Toiletries Division... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Conflict Management; Behavior; Management Practices and Processes; Talent and Talent Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Problems and Challenges; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Europe
Greiner, Larry E., and Elizabeth Collins. "A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products." Harvard Business School Brief Case 082-177, April 2008.
- 29 Oct 2014
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Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
social network that would allow everyone to share their lives with one another across geographies. "Compared to the value of the global network idea, the value of the actual product of a platform for college kids was much less,"... View Details
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The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The... View Details
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A finisher - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The... View Details
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The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The... View Details
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The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Message: Confidence in Corporate America Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site... View Details