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  • 23 Jul 2020
  • News

The Four Imperatives Emerging From The Pandemic And What To Do About Them

  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

Carliss Baldwin, and Stefan Thomke of HBS, Eric von Hippel of MIT, and Benjamin Mako Hill of University of Washington, in coordination with HBS Digital Initiative. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

competing on the basis of discounts, U.S. carmakers need to get to the point where people want to buy their cars. —Stefan Thomke Although the Big 3 (or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler's merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 17 Aug 2015
  • News

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

    Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

    * Top 10 Technology Books of 2020 (Forbes)
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    * 9 Best Business Books for 2020... View Details

    • 19 Jun 2018
    • First Look

    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
    • 06 Nov 2017
    • Research Event

    Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

      CAMBRIDGE, Mass — On a rainy afternoon in late October, Mohsen Mostafavi stood before a packed auditorium at Harvard University and considered the history of cities in terms of three cooked eggs. Mostafavi, the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, described... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 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
    • 27 Apr 2015
    • News

    Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

    • 04 May 2020
    • News

    The right way to use experiments to create better products more quickly

    • 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
      • 29 May 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

      drugs, and will they be less expensive?' My answer is, 'I don't know, and probably not.' Lechleiter was one of several panelists to discuss, "Breaking the Genetic Code: The Business of Life Science in the 21st Century" at the 2001 Global Alumni Conference,... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 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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      • 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
      • March 2017
      • Exercise

      Designing Transformational Customer Experiences

      By: Stefan Thomke
      Anyone who has recently travelled, gone shopping, or tried to have a problem solved may have little recollection of the experience. Worse yet, some are frustrated by the lack of responsiveness or empathy that they encountered. The reality is that most customer... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Experience; Exercise; Learning By Doing; LEGO; Storytelling; Customer Satisfaction; Design; Innovation and Management; Transformation; Service Delivery
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      • 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
      • 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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      • 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