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15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

process analysis—a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management—in a setting that didn't involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting cranberries. Students got to see the design of a system, linked together in a... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
News

Answering the Call

associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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5.2 Use of Harvard Name & Logo | MBA

for Harvard Business School are found on the Marketing & Communications Brand & Style Guide website . Policies & Guidelines The Harvard University Office for Technology and Trademark and Licensing must authorize any use of trademarks, such as the school’s name and its... View Details

11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

Companies that spent decades understanding consumer-buying psychology traditionally assumed that specific products could satisfy discrete consumer needs. Now, they will need to define consumers by their fundamental life intentions (the... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

01 Dec 2019
News

Making Eco Easy

formulated, concentrated products that consumers reconstitute with water in Blueland’s reusable acrylic spray bottles—tinted pink for bathroom cleaning, yellow for multisurface, and blue for glass or mirrors. The company also recently... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

January 2017 (Revised April 2018)
Background Note

Introduction to Incentive-based Sales Compensation Systems

By: Willy Shih

This background note explains the structure of incentive-based sales compensation systems. View Details

Keywords: Sales Compensation; Sales Force Compensation; Sales Force Management; Sales; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States

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Purchase

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

managers substantial benefits that would be difficult to realize without the ERP IT infrastructure. Q: Must a company have an ERP system in place to use time-driven activity-based costing? A: Clearly, having an automated data feed facilitates the calculation of View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative... View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

"Listen carefully to what your customers want and then respond with new products that meet or exceed their needs." That mantra has dominated many a business, and it has undoubtedly led to great View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

01 Mar 2012
News

Where Innovation Rules

hundreds of cases, HBS students are trained to view every business situation as open to improvement, and therefore an opportunity to build a new or better product or service. HBS alumni even have gone on to create entire industries, such... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg;Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Educational Services; Management

01 Sep 2020
News

Good Odds

manufactured goods go to waste in the production process, Philip Behn says, because items come out too thick, too thin, or otherwise not perfect. “So we put our own private label on them and now we sell broken pretzel bits.” As much as 15... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; food industry; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

14 May 2013
Blog Post

MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans

with CEO, Tim Williamson, and Director of Product Management, Sara Thomas, (GSB ’09) to develop a strategy for supporting start-ups that have outgrown the early stages of their business and are dealing with challenges of scaling. We... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

16 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Health Care Club: Summer Spotlight

about regulation, IP, and production capabilities (CMC). I will also be looking at the potential commercial prospects which are the basis for Shires interest. It is important for Shire to have a picture of both the opportunity and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

Profile

Rob Casper

through four different product ideas, then dropped them,” Rob says. “Our big idea, which the client liked, was a video game application that would appeal to the right people: adolescent girls.” View Details

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Iva Teixeira

explains, “but over time, I created my own rotational program, doing everything from supply chain and human resources to financial analysis and new product development. In the end, I was very close to being an internal consulting analyst... View Details

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About Baker Library | Baker Library

unlocks insights across campus, the university, and beyond. We are at the vanguard of academic library innovation, experimenting with linked data, semantic data modeling, and digital product development to disseminate faculty research... View Details

29 Jul 2021
News

A Clean Start

it a reality, and the plants and factories to scale it. OCO’s bread and butter is a processing device called an electrolyzer, which combines electricity and CO2 and splits water to make formic acid. That formic acid can then be sold to customers who use it to create... View Details

27 Mar 2019
News

Sharing the Road

not owning assets, and give them a product that allows them to do it in a seamless, frictionless manner, that's the success that we're trying to achieve. “My biggest takeaway from GMP has been the idea that if we collaborate well, if we... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

locations in India, as one solution. She also explored ways that health care products can be produced at lower costs, making them accessible to larger populations, while working for a Boston-based medical technology company during the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

with the right investors," advised Burgstone. Satchu added, "Choose a business model you can be passionate about 24/7, then focus on the product and listen to the customer." View Details

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