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  • 05 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

other firms around the world improve in competitiveness and quality, at what point are customers no longer going to be willing to pay a premium for higher-quality goods? The quality differential will also probably shrink over time in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Cutting Edge

and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

and retailers keep the segment growing? Tahari said she and her husband have considered the idea of buying one of their retailers in an effort to get more information about how their products are selling, View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products
  • 10 Jan 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods View Details
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

improve their automated product recommendations. These recommendations are often presented as ''inspired by your browsing history'' or ''recommended for you,'' and help consumers discover new View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Ticktock

Roomba turned out to be a gadget, a fad item, because after a while it was a hassle to use and provided little results, even if it was always fun to have it running around the house,” Nanda states. “After seeing its product in the field... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
  • November 2009
  • Case

Finance Myopia in a Systems Business

By: J. Bruce Harreld
This short case describes the tensions that often arise between finance executives attempting to curtail unproductive activities and strategy executives trying to optimize overall firm performance. View Details
Keywords: Finance; Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Conflict and Resolution; Strategy; Competition
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Harreld, J. Bruce. "Finance Myopia in a Systems Business." Harvard Business School Case 810-071, November 2009.
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity, joy, trust, and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

end users would agree: Their distribution channels are outdated and unwieldy, serving neither customers nor channel partners as well as they should. In a few cases, distribution channels are streamlined and satisfying for all participants. In some cases, technology has... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 18 Nov 2016
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job

Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job with expanded responsibilities. But it can be done. Research into the the concept of "stretchwork." Reflecting on Work Improves Job... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2012
  • Supplement

Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (B)

By: Willy Shih
Rainer Ohnheiser, the President of Carl Zeiss's Business Group Industrial Metrology (IMT), was focused on the threat that in-line metrology posed to Carl Zeiss IMT's core business. Historically, coordinate measurement machines (CMMs) that employed tactile measurement... View Details
Keywords: Performance Trajectories; Emerging Technologies; Manufacturing Tools; Carl Zeiss; Go-to-market Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Production; Performance Improvement; Measurement and Metrics; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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Shih, Willy. "Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 613-041, September 2012.
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

employers on this issue. Much of my research is about the impact of workplace transparency (the observability of employee activities, routines, behaviors, output, and/or performance) on employee productivity and collaboration. So these... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 07 Nov 2007
  • Op-Ed

How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

would be delayed. Apple's stock, although it rebounded after a strong earnings report, dropped six percent when the company announced a $200 price cut on the iPhone only 8 weeks after the product launched. CEOs, often dismissive of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • June 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Ducati Corse

By: Francesca Gino and Andrew P. McAfee
Ducati Corse, the racing arm of Ducati Motorcycles, has entered the Moto GP circuit with a completely new bike. This bike was designed and tested using a great deal of information technology. After a very successful initial season, the Ducati Moto GP team sees... View Details
Keywords: Design; Business Strategy; Product Marketing; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Change Management; Research and Development; Motorcycle Industry; Italy
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Gino, Francesca, and Andrew P. McAfee. "Ducati Corse." Harvard Business School Case 605-091, June 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

needed to commercialize products of new technology. Embedded, too, were the basic functional capabilities—product development, production, and distribution and marketing—that were needed in order to continue to View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • February 2010 (Revised March 2010)
  • Supplement

Leading Change at Simmons (E)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Thyne
This case updates the “Leading Change at Simmons” series by examining Simmons' increasing debt under the ownership of Thomas H. Lee, a private equity firm. Charlie Eitel, the former CEO, wonders what the company's, and his, legacy will be after declaring bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Leading Change; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry
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Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Thyne. "Leading Change at Simmons (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 610-061, February 2010. (Revised March 2010.)
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

them and increase their value and feasibility. Alternatively, humans could work more iteratively with AI, constantly shaping and improving the ideas it provides. The most productive way to use generative AI,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
  • 23 Jul 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

When business executives create innovative products or services, they often look to impress their customers by delivering an experience more meaningful, more delightful, than possibly expected. A true "wow!" moment. And Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 04 Jun 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

Summing Up Is the Potential Negative Impact of New Information Technologies on Customer Loyalties Overstated? Customers will remain loyal to brands that meet their needs, regardless of the effects of new information technologies on their general knowledge about View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
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