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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager
Because I teach a course on product management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “What is the role of a product manager?” The role of product manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2013
- News
Managing New York City
- Article
The New Country Managers
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "The New Country Managers." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (1992): 155–165.
- 15 Apr 2010
- News
New masters of management
- August 1988 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Hewlett-Packard (B): Organizing New Product Sales Channels--1987
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Hewlett-Packard (B): Organizing New Product Sales Channels--1987." Harvard Business School Case 589-020, August 1988. (Revised January 1992.)
- December 2022
- Article
I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure
By: Byungyeon Kim, Oded Koenigsberg and Elie Ofek
Innovations embody novel features or cutting-edge components aimed at delivering desired customer benefits.
Oftentimes, however, we observe the need to recall new products shortly after their introduction. Indeed, a firm
may rush an innovation to market in an attempt... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Management; Innovation And Strategy; Product Development Strategy; Product Introduction; Quality Control; Product Recalls; Game Theory; Market Timing; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development
Kim, Byungyeon, Oded Koenigsberg, and Elie Ofek. "I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure." Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 8889–8908.
- summer 1992
- Article
Production and Operations Management's New 'Requisite Variety'
By: Robert H. Hayes
Hayes, Robert H. "Production and Operations Management's New 'Requisite Variety'." Production and Operations Management 1, no. 3 (summer 1992): 249–253.
- September 1985
- Case
General Foods Corp.: The Product Management System
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A., and Paul W. Farris. "General Foods Corp.: The Product Management System." Harvard Business School Case 586-057, September 1985.
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving... View Details
- Research Summary
Sports Management
Professor Fearing's secondary research interest in sports management shares an emphasis on developing new metrics to help understand and improve performance.
View Details- September 2017 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand
By: Shelle Santana, Jill Avery and Christine Snively
The launch of the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card was enthusiastically received by millennial consumers, a cohort that had previously eluded JPMorgan Chase and its competitors. With the one-year anniversary of the launch approaching, managers are focused on... View Details
Keywords: Brand ＆ Product Management; Product Strategy; New Product Development; Credit Card; Customer Acquisition; CRM; Millennials; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Credit Cards; Product Development; Product Launch; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Demographics; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry; Banking Industry; United States; North America
Santana, Shelle, Jill Avery, and Christine Snively. "Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand." Harvard Business School Case 518-024, September 2017. (Revised September 2023.)
- August 1988 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Hewlett-Packard (A): Organizing New Product Sales Channels--1986
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Joseph G. Finegold
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Joseph G. Finegold. "Hewlett-Packard (A): Organizing New Product Sales Channels--1986." Harvard Business School Case 589-019, August 1988. (Revised January 1992.)
- 10 Oct 1997
- Conference Presentation
Managing Product Development in Rapidly Changing Environments
By: Alan MacCormack
- March–April 2013
- Article
Vaporware, Suddenware and Trueware: New Product Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty
By: Elie Ofek and Ozge Turut
A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such communications can affect rivals' incentives to develop the same new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter... View Details
Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut. "Vaporware, Suddenware and Trueware: New Product Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty." Marketing Science 32, no. 2 (March–April 2013): 342–355.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm... View Details
Keywords: Product Quality Upgrading; Product Cycles; Organizational Behavior; Knowledge Hierarchies; Worker Skills; Auto Manufacturing; Training; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Management; Production; Product; Organizational Structure; Auto Industry; Argentina
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and Nicolas Torres. "Organizational Responses to Product Cycles." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-061, March 2023. (Revised August 2023. Revise & Resubmit Journal of Political Economy.)
- 2001
- Article
Managing Superiors in Leadership for New Managers
By: John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
Gabarro, John J., and John P. Kotter. "Managing Superiors in Leadership for New Managers." Special Issue on Business Fundamentals. Harvard Business Review (2001).
- 2014
- Working Paper
The New Empirical Economics of Management
By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review... View Details
Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen. "The New Empirical Economics of Management." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20102, April 2014.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
senior executives to coordinate their activities. These categories still hold true over ten years later, says Bartlett, but other things have changed. Baker Library’s Cynthia Churchwell interviewed Bartlett on his current thinking. An excerpt follows. What View Details
Keywords: Management
- September–October 1996
- Article
A Strategic Approach to Managing Product Recalls
By: N. Craig Smith, Robert J. Thomas and John A. Quelch
Smith, N. Craig, Robert J. Thomas, and John A. Quelch. "A Strategic Approach to Managing Product Recalls." Harvard Business Review 74, no. 5 (September–October 1996): 102–113.