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  • 17 Aug 2015
  • News

Harvard prof’s advice for product firms: keep it simple

    Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

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    • 19 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 19, 2016

    is “liking” simply a symptom of being fond of a brand? We disentangle these possibilities and find evidence for the latter: brand attitudes and purchasing are predicted by consumers’ preexisting fondness for brands and are the same... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Jun 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

    investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social pressure fueled View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 Jan 2021
    • News

    Top Ten Technology Books Of 2020

      Customers As Innovators: A New Way to Create Value

      Product R&D at many companies is a major bottleneck. The difficulty is that fully understanding the needs of just a single customer can be an inexact and costly process--to say nothing of the needs of all customers or even groups of them. In the course of... View Details
      • 08 May 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: May 8

      supported this prediction. Auxiliary analyses suggest that contrast effects and non-random scheduling of interviews are unlikely alternative explanations. Six Myths of Product Development Authors:Stefan Thomke and Donald Reinertsen... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 22 May 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

      exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up skilled labor to be used for... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • Article

      Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence

      By: Stefan Thomke and Gary W. Loveman
      Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and act... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Science; Leadership Style
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      • 19 Dec 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

      Bühler Group, Stefan Scheiber is mapping a courageous plan to combat food waste and climate change. Ranjay Gulati hears from Scheiber about how he challenges his own company, its customers, and himself to face sustainability problems... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost
      • 02 Aug 2020
      • What Do You Think?

      Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

      level. Their work has been both influenced by and reported recently by several academics. Harvard Business School professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman track experimentation in decision-making back to the... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
      • 03 Jul 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

      link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54665 forthcoming R&D Management An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India By: Gupta, Budhaditya, and Stefan... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 12 Jul 2020
      • Book

      The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

      What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • 09 Nov 2020
      • News

      Best Business Books 2020: Strategy

      • 19 Feb 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

      joining a bubble. In the recent paper, "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles," Harvard Business School's Robin Greenwood and Stanford's Stefan Nagel compared the returns of young and older mutual fund managers during and after... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
      • 10 Jul 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Entrepreneurship in Europe

      "and we have no experience in how to handle it. The old economy has to adapt, has to change. I think we are doing that." Stefan Muennighoff (HBS MBA '99), co-founder and CEO of GloMediX, said entrepreneurs can draw on the... View Details
      Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
      • 12 May 2020
      • News

      The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

      • December 2023
      • Article

      Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency

      By: Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler and Stefan Reichelstein
      Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we provide a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of system prices and conversion efficiency for three currently prevalent... View Details
      Keywords: Clean Technology; Green Hydrogen; Carbon Emissions; Decarbonization; Learning By Doing; Environment; Energy; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Cost Accounting; Innovation and Management; Technology Adoption; Energy Policy; Engineering; Green Technology; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Transportation Industry; North America; South America; Africa; Europe; Asia
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      • 23 May 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

      to do with the innate nature of the product itself, the features built into it. And if you start with a product that does well on these five factors, then life gets a lot easier. Stefan Thomke How can a... View Details
      Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson
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      Automotive Product Development

      At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details