In many design environments, the technology around which a product is designed may evolve over the course of the product development cycle. In reaction, designers may modify the product's design to avail of new technology, resulting in cost overruns and delays. This effect can be mitigated if a...

M&SOM has published papers of importance for poverty alleviation. Yet, rich opportunities for impactful research remain as yet untapped. OM insights suggest business model innovations that alleviate poverty by simultaneously empowering women, protecting natural systems or mitigating pollution,...

This video walks the viewer through the student team project component of an MBA elective that focuses on the process of developing a new product or service, from idea to working prototype. For the team project, each student team identifies an unmet market, develops a working prototype of a new...

Manufacturers today often strive towards early supplier involvement in product development. Yet, the research literature offers limited guidance on this issue to manufacturing companies and suppliers and often assumes a "one-size-fits-all" approach. In this paper, we empirically examine whether...