Product Engineering - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

that HBS alumni have gone into the world and done just that - today, and in decades past - and have seen their products and services become both pervasive and influential in the American economy. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

adoption of some cost-reducing, consumer-facing, and life-saving technology innovations. Herzlinger—dubbed the “godmother of consumer-driven health care”—has helped to shepherd countless new health care products to market. But she’s never... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Aug 2001
News

Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

emphasizes the importance of intellectual property rights, and the "fairly transparent and efficient" nature of the FDA. Maintaining this competitive advantage, he noted, requires the reversal of two alarming trends: a decline in the number of trained scientists and... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

capital partnership or as a business unit? How should it be governed, and how should the investment committee function? Could mechanisms be developed that ensured the expertise of Saudi Aramco's famously conservative engineering resources... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2025
News

The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

Road Bill Gates may have been selected as the most influential business leader, but the internal combustion engine beats Windows as an operating system by a mile - the automobile rules as the most significant consumer View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation

worldwide, once employed 600,000 Americans alone and estimates it will employ only 86,000 in its U.S. operations by 2008. And in another telling numbers game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will produce 9.06 million cars worldwide this year, while... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

28 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

have an experience and learn about products, but now that can be decoupled from the act of taking possession of a product because there are better and cheaper ways of doing that. Malls are going to increasingly transform into places for... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Retail

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

conflict, and trial and error to advantage. At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. Blindsided by news that Cars Toons was behind... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

these companies. The traditional Xerox product—for instance, a copier—was designed so that it could be operated and serviced in almost any country in the world. This meant not only constraints on how the product was View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years Later By: Benner, Mary, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

lead to reduced economic productivity subsequent to exposure to temptation. Using a design inspired by the classic "Marshmallow Test," we report data from a field experiment in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 were... View Details

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

productivity improvements. Over the past 15 years, production efficiencies have enabled an average S&P 500 company to reduce its cost of goods sold by about 250 basis points, Cespedes says, but selling... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly process. The end product looked, smelled, and felt like natural leather. Scalable marketplace adoption of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Dec 2011
News

An HBS gift guide

as they were years ago . Even skis within our sport have undergone dramatic improvements.” Read about Hanson’s effort to engineer a better boot. Previous Next Enjoy football, repair capitalism Roger Martin (MBA 1981) Dean, Rotman School... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1939494 Working Papers Competing Ad Auctions By: Ashlagi, Itai, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract—We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract... View Details