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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
develop ideas by spending time with a diverse group of people with different backgrounds and experiences. By engaging with others, innovators increase the probability that they are going to gain useful insights. Finally, innovators are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
shipped cost-effectively,” he explains. Mountz moved on to another job, but found himself still pondering the challenge almost two years later in an brainstorming session with some former MIT classmates. “We decided products that could... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the new joint MS/MBA:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
United States, rather than investing massive sums to regain technological preeminence, is much better off becoming the best country at incorporating such advances in new products and services, no matter where the ingredients are produced.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
multimedia simulation “Strategic Brew” engages students in a fast-paced exercise in strategic decision- making. The goal of the simulation is to show, rather than tell, students how to strategize. Working in teams, students gain practical... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
Koehn examines six business pioneers across three centuries to better understand, as she puts it, how “individual entrepreneurs and companies translate a few buyers’ curiosity about new products into widespread customer loyalty.” The six... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
virus. “They created products and services that have the potential to reduce the spread of the virus, improve patient care, and create community when in-person gatherings aren’t possible,” explains Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
required course designed to develop students’ global and cultural intelligence. In the course, students tackle a real product or service challenge for a partner organization and complete an immersion in their partner’s city. Seoul was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
outdated, electricity was sporadic, communication was difficult, basic resources were scarce, institutions were undeveloped, and the need for training was tremendous. Despite these obstacles, Lu was able to make a difference in the lives of dozens of families by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
Many products are sold for just one selling season. It’s extremely difficult to predict demand—sometimes demand actually increases as the price goes up due to perceived quality and popularity. These factors make selling fashion View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
(Above: photo by Christina Gandolfo) When Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) thinks about marketing her music, she thinks about it in consumer product terms. A feminist activist and former drummer for Grammy-nominated artist M.I.A., she wants her... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
he says—a good sign, given that some locally manufactured products struggle to gain traction. When there is too little effort put into design and quality, customers end up associating the affordability of a... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
immediately evident. Adding pizza to the menu, for example, was a smart move. "The pizza cost us 25 cents and we could sell it for over a dollar," he says. "It ended up being the most profitable product at the Grill." In addition to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
here, Whillans offers straightforward strategies for gaining control over that most precious asset of all. Beware of time confetti. Our near-constant connection to technology leads to social media and email disruptions and “time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
students gain practical exposure to the choices involved in developing a product (beer), bringing it to market, and devising a competitive advantage. The exercise, incorporated into the required Strategy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
women in 21 countries found that women’s gains in economic power and social influence have come at a heavy price: women feeling stressed out, time-starved, and overburdened. This book argues that the growing market for View Details