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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. But one innovation pitfall is particularly insidious because it doesn’t involve an outright failure; in fact, these product launches actually do well in the marketplace.

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The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

Alarm waned toward the end of the 19th century, as experts came to believe that “modern industry” and “rapid communications” were making people more open to change and hence more resistant to the disease. In Europe, physicians anxiously debated how to treat home-sickness and contain its spread. In the U.S.,

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