Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

intelligent choice so important to effectively functioning markets. Worse yet, the financial products were created by financial engineers motivated to make them complex and therefore harder to understand. What is to be done? According to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

about their activities to make sure they're in sync with where the boss is trying to take the business. Q: To traditional ratios like return on assets and return on equity, you add a new qualitative measure called return on management (ROM), which you express as the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

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Paris Wallace

trying to build a valuable company when for us means helping a lot of people. We started out in fertility. We’ve now built a pregnancy product and we’ll be launching a mom and baby product soon. Ultimately,... View Details

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Adam Kanner

the marketplace, balancing supply and demand. You don’t want to acquire customers unless you have products to offer them. So building an effective marketplace is key. How are you making that happen? Through customer acquisition and... View Details

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

sector though, and my passion for making Moderna’s products more accessible showed.” Embracing the Challenge Llano’s internship is exactly the combination of challenge and contribution she hoped for, and she looks forward to bringing... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small companies to compete... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

their very success at product development and fundraising often heightens the chances that they will be replaced. After the founder has successfully met the initial operating challenge of getting the product... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Administration; Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; and researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA 1996) handled the telecom equipment maker’s production in Suzhou amid... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

sanction each year with close to two million dogs in competition. Are there any plans for expansion? We are currently working to upgrade our work process in order to provide better, more timely service to our constituents and to make available a host of information... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Aug 2014
News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

established, I envision a set of products that represent the cabana boy on the go: a suite of products and amenities that a cabana boy at a five-star hotel might bring you beachside." Can you finish this... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable

business; last October, he was named chairman and CEO of Marsh Crisis Consulting, a unit of Marsh & McLennan that provides a full range of services to corporate clients to help them avoid, plan for, and manage crises such as natural disasters, View Details

Keywords: counterterrorism; terrorism; National Security and International Affairs; Government

March 2005 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Morgan Stanley and TRAC-X: The Battle for the CDS Indexes Market

Morgan Stanley's credit derivatives business, specifically its collateralized debt obligation (CDO) business, has been hugely successful. One of its leading offerings is the TRAC-X product, jointly created and marketed by Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. However, a new... View Details

Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Product; Competition; Capital Markets; Financial Services Industry

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23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

their desires to help make their organizations more effective and responsive. I met many individuals with great ideas and insights working in large organizations that seemed to be enacting policies or producing products that didn't... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control for regional business managers is... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

productively in pursuit of learning, some discomfort is OK,” Bransby says. That is, people may get more comfortable with feeling uncomfortable over time. The dynamics of a particular team matter. While psychological safety can quickly and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

April 2002
Article

Local Versus Global Mimetism: The Dynamics of Alliance Formation in the Automobile Industry

By: Carlos Garcia-Pont and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Local Range; Global Range; Production; Auto Industry

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12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, managers should experiment with operational transparency—the deliberate design of windows into and out of the organization's operations... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

trials. As a result, this could change the types of products that can be profitably brought to market. To better understand the landscape of precision medicines, we use a comprehensive database of over 130,000 global clinical trials over... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

optimality of capital control taxation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52787 Summer 2017 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

campus, rediscovering old haunts, the friends enter into an animated discussion. Their conversation offers keen insights into how each individual has a unique brand, which must be as thoughtfully cultivated as product brands. Personal... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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