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All HBS Web
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- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (903)
- 2016
- Chapter
Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions
- August 2023
- Article
Can Security Design Foster Household Risk-Taking?
- April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
IBM: Design Thinking
- winter 1989
- Article
Small and Better: The Consumer-driven Advantage in Japanese Product Design
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
- August 2013 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor... View Details
Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas
We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details
- March 2022
- Article
Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products
- March 2003
- Teaching Note
Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise (TN)
- January 1971 (Revised August 1984)
- Case
Dansk Designs Ltd.
- Article
Quantifying the Use of Connected Digital Products in Clinical Research
- 1995
- Dissertation
The Economics of Experimentation in the Design of New Products and Processes
- September 1993
- Article
Maximizing the Utility of Customer Product Testing: Beta Test Design and Management
- Research Summary
The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement
Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details
- August 2013 (Revised November 2013)
- Supplement
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)
This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor... View Details
- Research Summary
Design Driven Innovation
Firms, managers and scholars have often balanced between two approaches to innovation: user centered (where incremental innovation is pulled by the market) and technology push (where innovation comes from breakthrough development in technologies). However there is a... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case