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      • May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
      • Case

      Vermeer Technologies (B): Realizing the Dream

      By: Ashish Nanda
      The Vermeer team works day and night to develop its software offering, unforeseen difficulties and internal tensions notwithstanding. In less than a year, the product is ready. The Vermeer team waits anxiously for the market to pronounce its verdict. View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Product Development; Information Technology Industry
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      Nanda, Ashish, and Georgia Levenson. "Vermeer Technologies (B): Realizing the Dream." Harvard Business School Case 397-080, May 1997. (Revised July 1997.)
      • May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
      • Case

      Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning

      By: Ashish Nanda
      The Vermeer team is pleasantly surprised by the benefits and hospitality that their new surroundings offer. Their happiness is tempered, however, by discomfort with some elements of the "Microsoft Way." As the Vermeer engineers embark on a punishing schedule for the... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Expectations; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Product Development; Information Technology Industry
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      Nanda, Ashish, and Georgia Levenson. "Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning." Harvard Business School Case 397-085, May 1997. (Revised July 1997.)
      • May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
      • Case

      Vermeer Technologies (F): FrontPage 97

      By: Ashish Nanda
      Vermeer engineers work at the breakneck pace of "Internet time" to develop the next version of their software product, winning accolades from Microsoft management. Even before this version ships, however, they are faced with another punishing development schedule for... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Product Development; Information Technology Industry
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      Nanda, Ashish, and Georgia Levenson. "Vermeer Technologies (F): FrontPage 97." Harvard Business School Case 397-110, May 1997. (Revised July 1997.)
      • May 1997
      • Teaching Note

      Introduction and Overview: Managing Product Development, Instructor's Note

      By: Marco Iansiti
      The first module, comprising three cases and a team exercise, provides an impressionistic look at all the issues raised in greater detail in subsequent classes. It thus enables students, who come to the course with a range of experience and skills, to get up to speed... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Product Development; Projects; Groups and Teams
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      Iansiti, Marco. "Introduction and Overview: Managing Product Development, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-104, May 1997.
      • May 1997
      • Teaching Note

      Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note

      By: Marco Iansiti
      This overview to Managing Product Development (MPD) both previews course material, cases, exercises, and lectures--and provides its conceptual and academic underpinnings. Additionally, this note links these materials to the activities students will be undertaking in... View Details
      Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Product Development; Knowledge Management; Performance; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Opportunities; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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      Iansiti, Marco. "Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-103, May 1997.
      • May 1997
      • Teaching Note

      Product Development Performance, Instructor's Note

      By: Marco Iansiti
      Focuses on what constitutes product development performance and how it is assessed. Performance, as explained in both the note and in the materials for this three-session module, refers to the performance of both the product and the organizational process producing it.... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Product Development; Production; Performance Evaluation
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      Iansiti, Marco. "Product Development Performance, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-108, May 1997.
      • May 1997
      • Teaching Note

      Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note

      By: Marco Iansiti
      Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Competition
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      Iansiti, Marco. "Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-106, May 1997.
      • May 1997
      • Teaching Note

      Module Overview: Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains: Matching Supply and Demand TN

      By: Ananth Raman
      Prepares students to configure operating and distribution systems to provide product (or service) supply to match customer demand. Begins by introducing students to the supply-demand mismatch problem, documenting its significance in many companies, and suggesting ways... View Details
      Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Working Capital; Distribution; Cost of Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry
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      Raman, Ananth. "Module Overview: Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains: Matching Supply and Demand TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-126, May 1997.
      • April 1997
      • Case

      Display Technologies, Inc.

      By: Jonathan West, H. Kent Bowen and Ryota Matsui
      Display Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is a new joint venture between Toshiba and IBM Japan that is manufacturing the most advanced form of flat panel displays. With success in achieving significant production volumes, DTI has been asked to double its output as quickly as... View Details
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Production; Performance Expectations; Electronics Industry
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      West, Jonathan, H. Kent Bowen, and Ryota Matsui. "Display Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-117, April 1997.
      • March 1997 (Revised December 1999)
      • Case

      Alden Products, Inc.--European Manufacturing

      By: Robert H. Hayes
      The European organization of Alden Products, Inc. is contemplating a doubling of unit sales over the next ten years. Their largest plant, located in Holland, was set up 25 years earlier to supply all demands of the EEC countries on the continent. It has since expanded... View Details
      Keywords: Production; Growth Management; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Strategic Planning; Performance Capacity; Business Strategy; Netherlands; Europe
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      Hayes, Robert H. "Alden Products, Inc.--European Manufacturing." Harvard Business School Case 697-099, March 1997. (Revised December 1999.)
      • March 1997 (Revised March 1997)
      • Case

      Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc.

      By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney
      Rubbermaid, a consumer-products company widely praised for its innovation, has instituted a company-wide experiment to stimulate innovation even further. The experiment consists of creating small cross-functional business teams within each division, with each team... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation Strategy; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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      Amabile, Teresa M., and Dean Whitney. "Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 897-165, March 1997. (Revised March 1997.)
      • February 1997 (Revised April 1998)
      • Case

      first direct (A)

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
      Describes the operations and strategy of the world's largest, fastest growing branchless bank. Using a person-to-person interface over conventional phone lines, First Direct provides standard banking and related financial products to nearly 700,000 customers throughout... View Details
      Keywords: Service Delivery; Customer Satisfaction; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; United Kingdom
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      Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Dickson Louie. "first direct (A)." Harvard Business School Case 897-079, February 1997. (Revised April 1998.)
      • January 1997 (Revised June 1997)
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      Corporate New Ventures at Procter & Gamble

      By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney
      Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble is faced with an urgent need to revitalize new-product innovation, given its recent focus on incremental product improvements and its aggressive growth goals. As part of this effort, the company's top executives form a small,... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Creativity; Working Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Groups and Teams; Retail Industry; Ohio
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      Amabile, Teresa M., and Dean Whitney. "Corporate New Ventures at Procter & Gamble." Harvard Business School Case 897-088, January 1997. (Revised June 1997.)
      • January 1997 (Revised December 1999)
      • Case

      OXO International

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Marilyn Matis and Sylvie Ryckebusch
      OXO, a kitchen tools and gadgets company, was started by a businessman who had 30 years of experience in the housewares industry. With his wife and son as founders, he creates a new niche in the gadgets industry for high-end gourmet stores. The company has headquarters... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Supply Chain Management; Production; Design; Ownership; Business Startups; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Asia; New York (city, NY); Connecticut
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      Bowen, H. Kent, Marilyn Matis, and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "OXO International." Harvard Business School Case 697-007, January 1997. (Revised December 1999.)
      • December 1996 (Revised July 2002)
      • Background Note

      Note on Marketing and the Internet

      By: John A. Deighton, Alison Berkley and John Barabino
      The World Wide Web is new, a comprehensive marketing environment. It is a medium for direct marketing, for retailing and distribution, for the delivery of service and product elements, for marketing research, and even for posting and testing prices. This note explores... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing
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      Deighton, John A., Alison Berkley, and John Barabino. "Note on Marketing and the Internet." Harvard Business School Background Note 597-037, December 1996. (Revised July 2002.)
      • October 1996 (Revised January 1998)
      • Case

      Sony Corporation: Car Navigation Systems

      By: John A. Quelch
      In the summer of 1996, Masao Morita, president of Sony Personal Mobile Communication Co., contemplated how to formulate its multinational marketing strategy for the fast-changing car navigation systems market. Morita needed to resolve the conflicting views within his... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Standards; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
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      Quelch, John A., and Yoshinori Fujikawa. "Sony Corporation: Car Navigation Systems." Harvard Business School Case 597-032, October 1996. (Revised January 1998.)
      • October 1996 (Revised December 1996)
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      United Electric Controls

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Jody H. Gittell and Sylvie Ryckebusch
      United Electric Controls (UE) was a small, traditional family-owned manufacturing company when Dave Reis, the youngest member of the Reis family, took over the business. This case describes Reis's efforts to change UE's traditional work practices in order to make the... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Family Business; Production; Business Strategy; Human Resources; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Decisions; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      Bowen, H. Kent, Jody H. Gittell, and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "United Electric Controls." Harvard Business School Case 697-006, October 1996. (Revised December 1996.)
      • September 1996 (Revised April 1997)
      • Case

      GO Corporation

      By: Josh Lerner, Thomas J. Kosnik, Tarek AbuZayyad and Paul C. Yang
      GO faces a crisis in March 1991 when Microsoft announces the introduction of a competing operating system for pen-based computers. GO's managers must work with its venture financers, Kleiner Perkins, to redesign its financing, alliance, and product development... View Details
      Keywords: Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Competition; Private Equity; Adaptation; Crisis Management; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry
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      Lerner, Josh, Thomas J. Kosnik, Tarek AbuZayyad, and Paul C. Yang. "GO Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 297-021, September 1996. (Revised April 1997.)
      • August 1996 (Revised October 1996)
      • Case

      Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions (A1)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Jaan Elias
      Illustrates: 1) the impact of a manager's leadership style on corporate culture, direction, and performance; 2) the concept of fit between leadership style and the requirements of situations in which managers find themselves; and 3) the need for managers to adapt their... View Details
      Keywords: Management Style; Race; Organizational Culture; Success; Leadership Style; Gender; Management Teams; Change Management; Situation or Environment; Creativity; Relationships; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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      Hill, Linda A., and Jaan Elias. "Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions (A1)." Harvard Business School Case 497-015, August 1996. (Revised October 1996.)
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      U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962

      By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
      This article presents a new database on U.S. multinationals active in British manufacturing between 1907 and 1962. Britain was the largest European host economy for U.S. direct investment in manufacturing and the second largest host worldwide. This article identifies... View Details
      Keywords: Production; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Research and Development; Business Subsidiaries; Policy; Investment; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Great Britain
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      Jones, G., and Frances Bostock. "U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962." Business History Review 70, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 207–256.
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