Stefan H. Thomke
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Stefan Thomke is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
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American Auto's Troubled Road
| Published: | April 10, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Views on News |
Harvard Business School faculty dissect where U.S. auto makers went wrong, and how they might again get on the road to growth. From HBS Alumni Bulletin.
Published in 2003
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
| Q&A with: | Stefan H. Thomke |
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| Published: | August 11, 2003 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Companies don’t need to spend a fortune on research and innovation. HBS professor Stefan Thomke explains how new technologies enable businesses to experiment on the cheap in his new book, Experimentation Matters.
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
| Published: | May 5, 2003 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
In this Harvard Business Review excerpt, HBS professor Stefan Thomke describes how Bank of America applies a systematic R&D process to create services.
Published in 2002
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
| Published: | May 6, 2002 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
It seems almost counterintuitive. But this Harvard Business Review excerpt by Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke and MIT's Eric von Hippel suggests that you stop listening closely to your customers—and instead give them tools for creating their own products.
Published in 2001
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
| Published: | May 29, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Mapping the human gene is indisputedly one of the great scientific advances. How will this new knowledge shape the business of life science in the 21st century?
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
| Published: | March 19, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
In the past, the high cost of experimentation has greatly impacted many firms' ability to successfully innovate. But now, new technologies are enabling reinvention of R&D from the ground up. HBS associate professor Stefan Thomke explains.







