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- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation in 1926, the company's senior... View Details
- 2001
- Working Paper
Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in New Product Development
By: Alan MacCormack and Roberto Verganti
- January 1997 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
Improving the Product Development Process at Kirkham Instruments Corp.
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Describes the efforts of a manufacturer of scientific instruments to implement new methods of managing new product development, which its executives had learned in a Harvard Business School seminar. The executives left the seminar excited to implement a new way of... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Product Launch; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Christensen, Clayton M. "Improving the Product Development Process at Kirkham Instruments Corp." Harvard Business School Case 697-058, January 1997. (Revised September 1997.)
- March 1988
- Case
Productivity on Missile Development Program 309
By: J. Ronald Fox
Fox, J. Ronald. "Productivity on Missile Development Program 309." Harvard Business School Case 388-119, March 1988.
- January 2013 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (A)
By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding a CTO, or outsourcing. He only has a little over two months before he presents his alumni networking app to Brown... View Details
Keywords: Start-up; Mobile App; oDesk; Outsourcing; CTO; Minimum Viable Product; App Development; Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Intellectual Property; Product Development; Globalization; Technology Industry; Massachusetts; Boston; India
Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-122, January 2013. (Revised February 2013.)
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
- January 2011
- Case
AIC Netbooks: Optimizing Product Assembly
By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Sunru Yong
AIC Systems, located in Taichung, Taiwan, is a manufacturer of printed circuit boards, primarily for motherboards and video cards for personal computers. The firm is considered an original design manufacturer (ODM) and takes an active role in innovating and designing... View Details
Keywords: Performance Management; Quantitative Analysis; Manufacturing; Production Planning; Production Management; Diversification; Production; Performance Efficiency; Product Design; Performance Improvement; Mobile Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; Taiwan
Wheelwright, Steven C., and Sunru Yong. "AIC Netbooks: Optimizing Product Assembly." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-245, January 2011.
- 10 Oct 1997
- Conference Presentation
Managing Product Development in Rapidly Changing Environments
By: Alan MacCormack
- November 1990 (Revised November 1991)
- Case
Time Inc. and New Magazine Development
By: David J. Collis and Nancy Donohue
Looks at the magazine development at Time Inc. in light of the growing dominance of the video group and the modern management of the 1980s. Highlights the firm's magazine development during 1989. View Details
Collis, David J., and Nancy Donohue. "Time Inc. and New Magazine Development." Harvard Business School Case 391-110, November 1990. (Revised November 1991.)
- March–April 1992
- Article
Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development
By: S. C. Wheelwright and K. B. Clark
Wheelwright, S. C., and K. B. Clark. "Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development." Harvard Business Review 70, no. 2 (March–April 1992): 70–82.
- March 2000
- Exercise
Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise
By: Stefan H. Thomke
This team exercise allows students to experience some of the dynamics of developing products in the fast-paced Internet environment and was inspired by the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft. Designed to be taught in a single class session, the exercise... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Decisions; Management Practices and Processes; Integration; Organizations; Competition
Thomke, Stefan H. "Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 600-121, March 2000.
- February 1991
- Teaching Note
Mod IV Product Development Team, Teaching Note
By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Teaching Note for (9-491-030). View Details
- February 1997
- Article
Advantages of Time-Based New Product Development in a Fast Cycle Industry: An Empirical Analysis
By: S. Datar, C. Jordan, S. Kekre, S. Rajiv and K. Srinivasan
Datar, S., C. Jordan, S. Kekre, S. Rajiv, and K. Srinivasan. "Advantages of Time-Based New Product Development in a Fast Cycle Industry: An Empirical Analysis." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 34, no. 1 (February 1997): 36–49.
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Product Development Organization and Capability, Module Overview
By: Marco Iansiti
- November 1989
- Case
Development and Production of Missiles and Ships
By: J. Ronald Fox
Fox, J. Ronald. "Development and Production of Missiles and Ships." Harvard Business School Case 390-053, November 1989.
- July 1996
- Article
New Product Development Structures: The Effect of Customer Overload on Post-Concept Time to Market
By: S. Datar, C. Jordan, S. Kekre, S. Rajiv and K. Srinivasan
Datar, S., C. Jordan, S. Kekre, S. Rajiv, and K. Srinivasan. "New Product Development Structures: The Effect of Customer Overload on Post-Concept Time to Market." Journal of Product Innovation Management 13, no. 4 (July 1996): 325–333.
- December 1988
- Article
Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Global Product Development
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Global Product Development." Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce & Management (December 1988).
- February 1999 (Revised February 2003)
- Teaching Note
Product Development at Dell Computer Corporation TN
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Teaching Note for (9-699-010). View Details
Keywords: Computer Industry
- January 2001
- Article
Developing Products on Internet Time: The Anatomy of a Flexible Development Process
By: A. D. MacCormack, R. Verganti and M. Iansiti
MacCormack, A. D., R. Verganti, and M. Iansiti. "Developing Products on Internet Time: The Anatomy of a Flexible Development Process." Management Science 47, no. 1 (January 2001).