industrial design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
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Digging Deep

solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control quality and respond to market... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

that become essential to the economic success of fashion designers in the marketplace. (Her research on the market for modern and contemporary fine art in India also bears out this phenomenon.) “One of the most well-accepted axioms of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

(ii) designing incentive systems, broadly defined, that motivate both individual performance and organizational behavior. Students will learn to apply these concepts to enhance their own productivity while also developing skills to... View Details

December 2000 (Revised November 2001)
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Adobe Systems Incorporated

Examines Adobe's battle with Microsoft to establish de facto standards in the emerging eBook space. View Details

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Product Design; Technology; Information Technology Industry; United States

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19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

your values Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values Fashion designer Stella McCartney shows that luxury and sustainability need not be mutually exclusive in a case study by Anat Keinan. Demonstrate bottom-line... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

Frederick J. Fisher

Fisher produced auto bodies specifically designed for autos rather than as modifications of horse-drawn carriages. When Cadillac placed an order for 150 closed bodies in 1910, it was the first volume order of its kind in the U.S. In 1919,... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

14 Dec 2022
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Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale

author Veronique Greenwood, both nonprofits and government organizations such as the Department of Energy estimate that “only 5 percent of plastic items disposed in the United States are recycled at all; the rest are burned up or go into landfills.” Such low rates can... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock

America were buzzing about Clocky, a clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping when its alarm went off. At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab, had developed for an View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Andrew J. Higgins

biggest suppliers to the military mobilization effort for World War II. Over 90% of the navy vessels produced during the war were designed by Higgins Industries including most of the landing ships which... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

for Bankruptcy. Now What? Taking the Long View By: Werker, Eric D., and Benjamin Kennedy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45603 Working Papers Creating a Design Commons:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Meet the Tech Club - Recruiting

industry skills. Each year, we provide robust recruiting opportunities and foster meaningful social and professional connections among our 450+ club members, the broader HBS community, and the extended Boston tech ecosystem. How We Do It... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts

Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care delivery, consumer-driven... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

presence. Recommended and designed business partnerships and product designs for a Chinese telecom company to pursue mobile banking and microfinance for rural Chinese population to access financing. Dates &... View Details

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Gopesh Mittal

While consulting with McKinsey & Co on industry projects ranging from education to energy utilities in India, Gopesh Mittal discovered a deep interest in one especially important field, health care. “I worked for a health care company... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together

Last fall, the HBS Club of Greater New York hosted an innovative conference designed to give would-be entrepreneurs a boost in meeting one of the greatest challenges for any new venture: finding start-up capital. Held in September in New... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Networked Computers behind IT Payoff

nor is it the question around which many IT vendors design and sell their products. Instead, functionality continues to be king." IT decisions, however, should not be based on functionality, says McAfee, who takes an example from the... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Accelerating Therapies

scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science entrepreneurs and provide a further catalyst for innovation and research development," observed Mr. Blavatnik. The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator is designed to... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

we’re beginning in the laboratory to deeply understand how anxiety in service contexts influences customer decision-making, and which operational designs work best to reduce anxiety. Then, we’ll take our insights to the field,... View Details

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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

industrial policies are essential for addressing key national challenges, offering insights on designing effective government actions that balance past lessons with innovative approaches. The new View Details

August 2005 (Revised March 2006)
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Moneyball (A): What Are You Paying For?

By: Frances X. Frei, Dennis Campbell and Eliot Sherman

Explores the contextual elements of Major League Baseball and presents data to allow for an analytic examination of alleged market inefficiencies within the sport. View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Performance; Sports; Compensation and Benefits; Sports Industry; United States

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