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- February 1987 (Revised April 1989)
- Case
Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd.: Process Control in the Dryden Paper Mill
Bohn, Roger E., and Michael D. Watkins. "Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd.: Process Control in the Dryden Paper Mill." Harvard Business School Case 687-060, February 1987. (Revised April 1989.)
- May 2019
- Supplement
How Do You Decide Which Products to Develop First?
Toffel, Michael W. "How Do You Decide Which Products to Develop First?" Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 619-708, May 2019.
- February 1996
- Supplement
Active Coatings, Inc. (B): Challenges in Managing Product Development
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Teisberg, Elizabeth O., and James Leonard. "Active Coatings, Inc. (B): Challenges in Managing Product Development." Harvard Business School Supplement 796-062, February 1996.
- May 2021
- Article
Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics
By: Efraim Benmelech, Janice Eberly, Dimitris Papanikolaou and Joshua Krieger
Investment in intangible capital such as R&D has increased dramatically since the 1990s. However, productivity growth remains sluggish in recent years. One potential reason is that a significant share of the increase in intangible investment is geared toward consumer... View Details
Keywords: Drug Development; Research and Development; Investment Return; Demographics; Pharmaceutical Industry
Benmelech, Efraim, Janice Eberly, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Joshua Krieger. "Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics." AEA Papers and Proceedings 111 (May 2021): 336–340.
- 1995
- Book
The Product Development Challenge: Competing through Speed, Quality, and Creativity
By: K. B. Clark and S. C. Wheelwright
Keywords: Product Development
Clark, K. B. and S. C. Wheelwright, eds. The Product Development Challenge: Competing through Speed, Quality, and Creativity. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.
- 26 Aug 2001 - 30 Aug 2001
- Conference Presentation
Developing Products on Internet Time: Managing Innovation in Turbulent Environments
By: Alan MacCormack
- 2020
- Book
Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
By: Joseph Allen and John D. Macomber
By the time you reach 80, you will have spent 72 years of your life indoors. Like it or not, humans have become an indoor species. This means that the people who design, build, and maintain our buildings can have a major impact on our health.
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Keywords: Architecture; Real Estate Development; Air Pollution; Air Quality; Public Health; Productivity Gains; Buildings and Facilities; Health; Pollutants; Performance Productivity; Construction Industry
Allen, Joseph, and John D. Macomber. Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- 1994
- Chapter
The Product Development Imperative: Competing in the New Industrial Marathon
By: K. B. Clark and T. Fujimoto
Clark, K. B., and T. Fujimoto. "The Product Development Imperative: Competing in the New Industrial Marathon." In The Relevance of a Decade: Essays to Mark the First Ten Years of the Harvard Business School Press, edited by Paula B. Duffy. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.
- 2000
- Chapter
Normal Acts of Irrational Trust: Motivated Attributions and the Trust Development Process
By: Mark J. Weber, Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan
- Article
Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development
By: Michael Beer
A normative and actionable theory of planned organizational change and development is proposed based on fifty years of engagement by the author as a scholar-consultant. Five principles are central features of the theory and practice proposed: 1) Organizations are... View Details
Keywords: Consultant; Process; Systems; Silence; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Learning; Management Teams
Beer, Michael. "Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development." Journal of Change Management 21, no. 1 (2021).
- Article
Trade-offs between Productivity and Quality in Selecting Software Development Practices
By: Alan MacCormack, Chris F. Kemerer, Michael A. Cusumano and Bill Crandall
Keywords: Quality; Applications and Software; Research and Development; Practice; Performance Productivity
MacCormack, Alan, Chris F. Kemerer, Michael A. Cusumano, and Bill Crandall. "Trade-offs between Productivity and Quality in Selecting Software Development Practices." IEEE Software 20, no. 5 (September–October 2003): 78–85.
- May 2013 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
The Kashagan Production Sharing Agreement (PSA)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Florian Bitsch
When discovered in the 1990s, the Kashagan oil field was the second largest oil field in the world. The project sponsors (equity investors) signed a 40-year production sharing agreement (PSA) with the Kazakh government in 1997, with the expectation the field would... View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Oil ＆ Gas; Project Finance; Kazakhstan; Asia; ENI; Risk Management; Economic Development; Project Management; Expropriation; Product Sharing Agreement; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Development Economics; Energy Sources; Capital Budgeting; International Finance; Valuation; Joint Ventures; Energy Industry; Asia; Kazakhstan; Italy
Esty, Benjamin C., and Florian Bitsch. "The Kashagan Production Sharing Agreement (PSA)." Harvard Business School Case 213-082, May 2013. (Revised September 2013.)
- November 1992
- Case
Process Control at Polaroid (B)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Steven C. Wheelwright
The plant manager of a film production operation wants to create and implement a new approach to quality within the next 12 months. Issues of personnel (and their roles), production processes (and their control), and quality standards must be addressed. View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Job Design and Levels; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Quality; Mathematical Methods
Bowen, H. Kent, and Steven C. Wheelwright. "Process Control at Polaroid (B)." Harvard Business School Case 693-048, November 1992.
- Article
Knowledge, Integration and the Locus of Learning: An Empirical Analysis of Process Development
By: Gary P. Pisano
Pisano, Gary P. "Knowledge, Integration and the Locus of Learning: An Empirical Analysis of Process Development." Strategic Management Journal 15 (Winter 1994): 85–100.
- 1999
- Working Paper
Development Webs: A New Paradigm in High Technology Product Development?
- 2006
- Chapter
Knowledge Transfer Within Organizations, and Market Research in Product Development
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Knowledge Transfer Within Organizations, and Market Research in Product Development." Chap. 4 & 9 of Knowledge Creation and Management: New Challenges for Managers, edited by Kazuo Ichijo and Ikujiro Nonaka. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- 2023
- Chapter
Organizational Development
By: Min Basadur, Tim Basadur and Goran Calic
Our review of the field of Organizational Development (OD) reveals an extensive range of tools which attempt to help organizations improve performance. We believe that OD should be studied differently: As a continuous process of change-making or innovation. How this... View Details
Keywords: Change; Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation and Management
Basadur, Min, Tim Basadur, and Goran Calic. "Organizational Development." Chap. 17 in Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Leadership, Interventions, and Macro Level Issues. Second Edition by Roni Reiter-Palmon and Sam Hunter, 239–255. Academic Press, 2023.
- November 1992 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Process Control at Polaroid (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Steven C. Wheelwright
Describes the initial efforts at a film production plant to shift from a traditional QC inspection mentality to a worker-based process control mentality. Students can prepare SPC charts, propose actions needed, and combine steps into an overall action plan. View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Operations; Quality; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Processes; Change Management; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Steven C. Wheelwright. "Process Control at Polaroid (A)." Harvard Business School Case 693-047, November 1992. (Revised January 2002.)
- October 1990 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Ceramics Process Systems Corp. (A)
By: Clayton M. Christensen
A small ceramics company started by a group of MIT professors struggles with some basic technology strategy issues. A plan to take "one commercializable step" at a time in order to get a foothold in the market goes awry because of incompatibility between the company's... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Technology; Problems and Challenges; Market Entry and Exit; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Cambridge
Christensen, Clayton M. "Ceramics Process Systems Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 691-028, October 1990. (Revised November 1992.)