Product Life Cycle - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

phase; it simply doesn't represent a sustainable solution for consumers. Yet employers are the natural gatekeepers for retirement plans, he believes. For example, when focus groups were presented with a new retirement product, individuals balked at signing on until... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

17 Feb 2022
Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

investors, activists, and students working together to reduce climate change, feed the world’s population, reduce animal suffering, and develop new fascinating products to make our lives better,” said Bazerman. The Spiritual Lives of... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Launch Codes

you run the marathon. And it is a marathon, not a sprint—especially in life sciences, where it can take several years to get products to market. So culture is critical: You need people who can last, and,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

August 2013 Work and Occupations Toward a Model of Work Redesign for Better Work and Better Life By: Perlow, Leslie A., and Erin L. Kelly Abstract—Flexible work accommodations provided by employers purport to help individuals struggling... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

deep understanding of how change takes place, combined with fascinating in-depth stories of companies that have made the first steps toward reimagining capitalism, provides inspiring insight into what capitalism could be. Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

support and perspective. Grown & Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection. Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life by Michael... View Details

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

people in real life and laughing with them. The virtual world is here to stay, but nothing replaces the beauty of communal physical spaces.” —Aishetu Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002) “I’ve learned that it’s doable and View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." He had come a long way from $1.20 a week. Not every giant of enterprise started life with a clear idea of where he was heading. When George Eastman was forced to enter... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

completes the cycle of research funding. A longstanding financial objective of the School has been to operate as a well-managed organization demonstrating the skills, tools, and frameworks taught in its educational programs. In line with... View Details

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

better infrastructure, and a better business climate. Another ingredient that makes this situation so sad is that the Greek people want to be part of Europe, and Europe wants them to be part of the European Union. Unfortunately, the government's promises that View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

organizations such as Harvard University, HBS will not provide funding for political campaign work. Founders of consulting, research, and/or brokerage services, as well as investment funds (including but not limited to hedge funds, private equity funds, search funds,... View Details

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

from every other life form on the planet. (The “old” brain—that lower rear 30 percent—is responsible for more rote behaviors and drives: breathing, heartbeat, reflexes; anger, hunger, sex.) And this is how we learn—by moving through the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

which all 88,000 workers are new, many are temporary, and half are volunteers, an entity that has no preexisting procedures and methods, no institutional memory, no long-term viewpoint, no established corporate culture, and, by definition, no future. "Think of the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

level. This gap has severely limited meaningful cost reduction throughout the system. The paper describes a new (for health care) approach that can accurately measure the costs incurred over the care cycle for a patient's condition.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

humans. It is undermined by any company that tries to justify decisions based on market norms . Academics and training alone will not create leaders. Life creates leaders.” Bill C., in pointing to corporate governance as an issue, said... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

13 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

you arrived at HBS? My goal in life has always been to walk the fine line between technology and management. Throughout my career I've been in roles that embodied both mindsets – some purely technological (as an engineer) and some purely... View Details

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

ultimate goal of selling transmission capacity to generators of renewable-energy seeking to get their product to market; or to utilities looking to access the lowest-cost clean power in the country. To make that happen, Skelly spends much... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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