Sustainable Product Design (SPD) and ISO14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) are emerging as two important approaches to corporate strategic solutions toward sustainability. Integrating product design management with ISO14001 EMS can be a promising way to fulfill a corporate strategic goal on the triple bottom-line (economic, environmental, and social) benefits. An extensive literature review shows that there is currently no comprehensive model and approach for corporate integration management.

Since conjoint analysis was first developed in the 1960s,it has been used more extensively for consumer than industrial marketing research.This study proposes a 3 applications (uses) by 2 types ( differentiated,commodity) matrix taxonomy of industrially-purchased products.

The purpose of this study was to empirically determine the relationship of marketing to new product design.Specifically,this study examined and neasured the magnitude and the nature of the influence of marketing in the new product design process relative to the influence of other departements within the firm.

This dissertation seeks to advance our understanding of how marketing principles can be used to improve the process of new product design. Specifically, it examines the potential of a specific cognitive process, visual mental imagery, as a tool to help designers maximize the appeal of new products in the eyes of their customers. A conceptual framework is presented that describes a process through which visual mental imagery might influence the customer appeal of a design output.

This paper presents data on fifty state and substate insurance markets, in terms of the 2003 relative shares of the largest health plans and the antitrust index of concentration. It presents 2000–03 data on rates of growth in premiums, costs, operating earnings, returns on equity, and share prices for the nation’s largest health plans (Well- Point, Anthem, United, Aetna, and CIGNA).