industrial design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

and build technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 16 Nov 2020 Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 tag All Industries All Locations Student & Alumni Stories Summer Internships In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) partnered with... View Details

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

what it would mean to feel physically present with anyone from anywhere. It unlocks economic opportunities for people who can’t move to major industry hubs; has the potential to dramatically improve our environmental impact of commuting... View Details

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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About

traditional processes and lifeways that have been forgotten, usurped, or upended, often as a result of Industrialization and modernization. Born in 1957 in Beijing, Ai Weiwei currently lives and works in Portugal. He attended the Beijing... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Family Matters

Lailah Thompson-Woode (MBA 2021) with her children, Antonio and Yasmina Woode. Photo courtesy Lailah Thompson-Woode Lailah Thompson-Woode (MBA 2021) with her children, Antonio and Yasmina Woode. Photo courtesy Lailah Thompson-Woode As a middle schooler, Lailah... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?

postcollege when I was working at Lotus Development, creating interactive marketing demos for various products. I really liked the experience of getting my hands dirty working with designers and producers. And I got lucky, because I met a... View Details

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

repository of lost opportunities" that serve neither end users nor channel partners very well. Why is this? A: That is because most channels are constructed from the supplier out, rather than from the customer in. In other words, the product or service is View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

life, and low cost Prussian Blue Sodium Ion battery solutions for critical power and industrial applications, including data center UPS systems and electrically-powered materials handling equipment. Aditya's role prior to HBS was a... View Details

July 2017 (Revised October 2017)
Supplement

Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (B)

By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber

This (B) case supplements the (A) case by providing additional information and updates through early 2016. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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Purchase

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 May 2023
Blog Post

6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process

research from Harvard Business School faculty and Harvard Business Review contributors. They are designed to help organizations think through the details of their interview process to achieve their recruiting goals and create more... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 1999
News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

without understanding technology. I admire the School's commitment to these areas," said Rod Hawes in a campus interview during his 30th Reunion in October. Hawes Hall, to be located at the northeast edge of Aldrich Hall, will house a number of state-of-the-art... View Details

10 May 2015
Blog Post

Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur

space early as a first year student when we would have random meetings there for FIELD 1. Every moment, room and resource within the first floor iLab center has been thoughtfully designed to assist entrepreneurs. The center has truly... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Making a Difference

manager at Procter & Gamble, Haacker loves the outdoors. His goal at Denali was to explore a potential long-term career in environmental conservation and to get a sense of how nonprofits and government agencies work. “Everybody tells you that working in private View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way

is certainly not the only game in town for startup hopefuls. The medical-device and biotechnology industries also lure people eager to create their own businesses, as do many of the areas that attracted entrepreneurs a decade ago. Of the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

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Jeremy Andrus

they would like,” Jeremy Andrus says. Skullcandy employs 350 people, mostly young and male (think jeans, plaid shirts, and scruffy beards). The company’s product development group comprises industrial View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

05 Jan 2022
News

Untapped Potential

technologies and providing services that are designed to improve water management worldwide. Already, the fund has invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse,... View Details

22 Oct 2013
News

Pulling the Plug

decades of his career, he cofounded and ran Brooktrout, growing it to a $150-million-a-year company that designed voicemail systems when everyone else was still using cassettes. After retiring, he became CEO of Groove Mobile, the first... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Telecommunications; Information; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)

pursue a Ph.D. However, she now knew that she likely needed another advanced degree to be a decision maker in an industry like pharma/biotech. Zutshi joined the second-ever cohort of students in the MS/MBA in Engineering Sciences degree... View Details

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