Ship Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2007
News

Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

a struggle. It was designed by a consortium, and that approach yielded a bad product. We realized if we wanted to build a great product, we would have to control the whole user experience ourselves. That product became the best-selling... View Details

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

FedEx for shipping some of their products, driving up demand from three packages a day to thirty. It was enough to save the company. FedEx’s strategy in these early years was simple: deliver time-sensitive packages with speed and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall, Managing Healthcare Delivery (MHCD)... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

venture, such as long-haul ships for Columbus or the Internet and telecom infrastructure for Skype. During his research and course development, Kerr focused on three key pieces for LGV cases: identifying case examples of larger trends and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

05 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

(MBA 2022) View Video Coprata has developed non-invasive ways to easily, safely and discreetly monitor health when using a toilet. The technology is designed to address gastrointestinal disease and monitor personalized wellness.... View Details

28 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Novo Nordisk

Symbiosis taking off in the U.S. in the near future! ----- Read more posts in the IFC Series: Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product... View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Timeline 1607 Jamestown A Short History of Jamestown Jamestown Colony 1619 Enslaved Africans brought to Point Comfort, Virginia The 1619 Landing — Report & FAQs First African Slave Ship Arrives at... View Details

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online to purchase cars. The online... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999), because "most practitioners have taken the concept of one-to-one marketing and bastardized it into CRM. They're using CRM tools to design better processes for a nonexistent... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up... View Details

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several large-scale projects that contributed to the growth and improvement of contemporary America, including the Hoover Dam, one of the wonders of the modern world. During World War II, when the United States... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

competitors' scores are increasing faster it should be a cause for alarm. Acquisition rates may be robust, but if old customers are abandoning ship as fast as new ones are coming on board, strong acquisition can give a deceptive picture... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

focus on digital innovations but kept it organizationally separate from the paper. One of the lab's most famous creations was its Social Reader, a product designed for Facebook and the first by any major paper to experiment with directly... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

MK: Hobbes is pretty big. He's taller than me. I'm about six feet tall. I wouldn't say he's particularly exciting looking. He is a giant steel box, essentially. DM: Inside, you can see waffle-shaped sorbent cartridges designed to remove... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the View Details

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

design and marketing strategies to those of Facebook. The market landscape of SNSs in China had changed drastically since Wang founded Xiaonei.com, with domestic and local competitors flocking into the market. With all his experience and... View Details