Publications

06 Apr 2020
News

How to “Boost” Productivity and Engagement in a Remote Work Environment, According To A Successful Remote-First Company

Article

Sustainability, Business, and Health

By: George Serafeim, Amanda M. Rischbieth and Howard K. Koh

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has demonstrated that response demands involvement from every sector of society. As a major example, some businesses have stepped up in ways previously unimaginable. Garment companies have repurposed production to face... View Details

Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Sustainability; Health And Wellness; Corporate Social Responsibility; Health Pandemics; Health; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment

April 1987
Supplement

Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (J): Walking Beam Furnaces

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Steel Industry

April 1987
Supplement

Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (L): Closed Loop Shape Control

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Steel Industry

12 Nov 2021

How HBS Enhanced My Career as a Product Manager

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting recent alumni who were Product Managers pre-HBS or transitioned to the PM role post HBS. Hear how their pre-MBA experiences prepared them for the HBS case method View Details

May 2010
Case

Flare Fragrances Company, Inc: Analyzing Growth Opportunities

By: John A. Quelch and Lisa D. Donovan

Flare Fragrances, a manufacturer of perfumes for women, faces a growth challenge in a difficult economic environment. CEO Joely Patterson outlines two growth opportunities for her marketing staff to evaluate. One involves launching a new scent -- and possibly... View Details

Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Market Segmentation; Product Introduction; New Product Marketing; Product Lines; Product Positioning; Distribution; Product Launch; Segmentation; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry

Educators

Purchase

March 1994
Case

Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.: Cost Reduction for Mature Products

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Cost Accounting

The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine... View Details

April 1987 (Revised May 1988)
Supplement

Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (D): The Varrick Claim

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Steel Industry

April 1987
Supplement

Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (C): The Zincrometal Event

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Steel Industry

01 Feb 2022
News

4 Ways Managers Can Increase Flexibility Without Losing Productivity

12 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

managers to make decisions about pricing, product displays, or brand-related social media content. On one hand, that makes good sense because they are more informed about local conditions and customers than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Other Unpublished Work

Cross Sectional Analysis of Phantom Products at Retail Stores

By: Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman

Keywords: Distribution; Logistics; Retail Industry

2006
Working Paper

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

By: Nava Ashraf, James Berry and Jesse M. Shapiro

The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world rests, in part, on whether higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use... View Details

Keywords: Price; Attitudes; Health Industry; Zambia

March 2010
Article

Female Empowerment: Further Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a... View Details

Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Product; Microfinance; Decision Making; Policy; Welfare or Wellbeing; Gender; Power and Influence; Philippines

December 2004
Article

Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War

By: Sven Beckert

06 Dec 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment

Keywords: by Kris Johnson Ferreira and Joel Goh; Retail

Article

Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs

By: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek

We study a duopoly model where consumers are heterogeneous with respect to their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition... View Details

Keywords: Duopoly and Oligopoly; Customers; Quality; Product Positioning; Competition; Management; Cost; Product

Purchase

Second Quarter 2024
Article

Venture Capital in a Time of Turmoil

By: Josh Lerner

One area of consensus among academic economists and policymakers is the need for greater innovation. This concern is rooted in worries about the lagging rate of productivity growth in many Western nations. In the U.S., for instance, the productivity growth rate... View Details

Keywords: Productivity Growth; Economic Growth; Innovation and Invention; United States; Europe