Product Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

extremely tight coordination and the transfer of learning between those who design and those who manufacture. If you do not understand the production environment, you have a harder time View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

three-by-three matrix composed of high/mid/ground-level products and services and high/mid/ground-level know-how—for example, developers of high-level (think microprocessors), mid-level (motherboards), and ground-level (laptop computers)... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, managers should experiment with operational transparency—the deliberate design of windows into and out of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

01 Jun 2004
News

The Sky’s the Limit

from the University of Washington and worked for Boeing, testing the 747 autopilot. His penchant for design led Hamilton to quit Boeing and launch the People Products Company, a consumer View Details

Keywords: Seattle Avionics; Transportation; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

engineer to design a new version of the product with higher steel content and wider ribs so that the panels were easier to nail together and channeled rain water more effectively. Union says she’s found this... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

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A Manager's Guide to Leveraging Technology - Course Catalog

enabling new business models, and reshaping entire industries. The impact of IT extends far beyond the business world, influencing organizational structures, culture, politics, decision-making processes, and society as a whole. IT is fundamentally changing how physical... View Details

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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

strategies and tactics for managing risk vs. reward. Historically, most entrepreneurship courses (at HBS, and elsewhere) disproportionately focus on consumer- and /or software-centric business model and product experimentation tools... View Details

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

microfinance and product design to open a new market segment based on the needs of low-income customers. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805064 ... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

around the world who comprise the first cohort, which started in the fall of 2018. The two-year program confers both an MBA and a Master of Science in Engineering Sciences. It is designed to train future leaders of technology ventures by... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

New Releases

relationships throughout the value chain. And Kaplan and Cooper explain how product engineers use activity-based cost information to design products and services that meet... View Details

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2+2 Program | MBA

private, or nonprofit sector before enrolling at HBS. Download the 2+2 Brochure Who Are We Looking For? The 2+2 program is designed to create a pathway to the MBA for high-potential college students. Some preference will be given to... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), pictured In January, 50 HBS MBA students and 200 alumni and other business leaders gathered to discuss the business of artificial intelligence (AI). Over the course of four days, the hybrid global cohort analyzed cases, quizzed sector experts,... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek

Anheuser Busch. During my first semester at HBS, I befriended many former west-coasters who proclaimed San Francisco a hotspot for interesting product marketing jobs. For the first time, I wondered what it would be like to move out west... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Good as Our Word

set itself apart from the pack with uncompromising integrity and accuracy, especially in the rating of structured finance products such as asset-backed securities. Although Becker never spoke with Kroll directly while writing the case,... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

design thinking, rooted in how knowledge advances from inchoate mystery to codification, thereby causing productivity to grow and costs to drop. Martin shows how companies like Procter & Gamble and Cirque du... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

November 2019
Supplement

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Matthew Preble

This video supplement pairs with “Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.” (case no. 418011). It contains eight individual clips that range in length from 5 to 12 minutes. Instructors can use the videos, either in whole or in part, as an additional teaching... View Details

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01 Dec 2010
News

Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

anticipate using financial statements to evaluate and pursue opportunities in global commerce and finance. Competing Globally is designed for those who will work as managers, analysts, or consultants to corporations that operate in... View Details

Keywords: curriculum

01 Jun 2013
News

Brick by Brick

re-engaging with customers, many of whom passed a love of LEGOs to their children. Although innovation was a core strength of LEGO, Knudstorp had seen the result of unconstrained creativity. New product View Details

Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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