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  • February 1999
  • Case

Volant Skis

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden
Volant brought innovation to the ski equipment industry in 1989 by developing a stainless steel ski. He claimed the skis could turn more easily, could hold an edge in icy conditions, and were more stable than aluminum or fiberglass skis. The company's "soft-flex"... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Quality; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

What Makes Players Pay? An Empirical Investigation of In-Game Lotteries

By: Tomomichi Amano and Andrey Simonov
In 2020, gamers spent more than $15 billion on loot boxes, lotteries of virtual items in video games. Paid loot boxes are contentious. Game producers argue that loot boxes complement the gameplay and expenditures on loot boxes reflect players’ enjoyment of the game.... View Details
Keywords: Product Design; Consumer Behavior; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Video Game Industry
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  • January 2013 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (A)

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding a CTO, or outsourcing. He only has a little over two months before he presents his alumni networking app to Brown... View Details
Keywords: Start-up; Mobile App; oDesk; Outsourcing; CTO; Minimum Viable Product; App Development; Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Intellectual Property; Product Development; Globalization; Technology Industry; Massachusetts; Boston; India
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    Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Entrepreneurship

    To be competitive, companies must grow innovative new businesses. Corporate entrepreneurship, however, isn't easy. New ventures face innumerable barriers and seldom mesh smoothly with well-established systems, processes, and cultures. Nonetheless, success requires a... View Details

    • March 2015
    • Case

    BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

    By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
    BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

    In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
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    • Web

    Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA

    dynamic panel discussions, and networking opportunities. 7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion Andy Harris 06 FEB 2019 | MBA Voices During the two-week intensive course, co-taught by SEAS and HBS faculty, students practice View Details
    • 29 Oct 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Lynn Wu, Wharton

    • Article

    Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production

    By: Ofer Arazy, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov and Irene Gurevych
    Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing co-production community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how... View Details
    Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Production; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing
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    • Program

    Managing Innovation

    explore the prototyping and experimentation practices of the world's top innovators, you will lay the foundation for transforming your business and sustaining growth through innovation the moment you return to work. Details Align plans... View Details
    • 03 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

    one emerging economy. Based on an exploratory field study of medical device development projects in India, we observe the frequent, iterative testing of prototypes in clinical settings and investigate the related learning process. The... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 09 Jan 2024
    • In Practice

    Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

    high-value ideas that blend human ingenuity with AI’s efficiency and analytical power. As we look ahead, it is clear that the competitive edge belongs to those firms that embrace this partnership. Picture a scenario where AI serves as the ultimate innovation partner,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
    • 17 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

    false results. Focus groups can be useful later in the product cycle when you want to get reactions to branding or observe groups of people using your product if it’s a tangible item. Prototype testing The best way to validate that a... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 02 Nov 2023
    • News

    Seeding Startups

    of areas—business professionals, software developers, data scientists, and such—share ideas, build teams, develop and test concepts and business plans, and finally pitch their prototypes to industry experts and venture capitalists. And... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 28 Mar 2024
    • News

    Rooms with a View

    those people should be the highest paid in the company,” he says. That’s his vision for Mogul Hospitalities’ own brand of AI hotels, too. The company has developed a prototype for a partially automated property, which it plans to expand... View Details
    Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality
    • 04 Apr 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

    out an email. He and four colleagues . had seen Larry’s note on the wall . (Dean’s email) included a detailed analysis of why the problem was occurring, described a solution, included a link to a prototype 9 implementation of the solution... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Faculty & Advisors - MBA

    dedicated to helping hardware companies of all sizes scale from prototype through production. Scott is a mechanical engineer by training, with extensive experience designing and manufacturing software controlled electro-mechanical... View Details
    • Web

    Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

    Develop: An Experimentation Mindset Develop, assess, and strengthen innovation concepts, and guide prototyping by creating critical questions related to a concept's desirability, feasibility, and viability. Highlights Impact, Difficulty,... View Details
    • 12 Aug 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

    way or if it's time to part ways–the company has outgrown them. I once had a talented engineer on my team who was a great prototyper but not strong writing production-level code. Each time he tried to follow a project from the... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • Web

    Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture - MBA

    through the cells and run air over the exposed solution. Moreover, it can be scaled up, with large plants housing many units and concentrated in areas with low population density. An image of Aaron Sabin's prototype air capture... View Details
    • Web

    Aldrich Hall | About

    and testing of a full-size classroom prototype on land behind Baker Library—the architectural firm Perry, Shaw, Hepburn & Dean developed a revolutionary horseshoe-shaped classroom layout specifically designed to facilitate case-method... View Details