Sensors - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

accounting firms to deliver a truly integrated audit? One of the key new themes that emerged at the workshop was the role technology could play in gathering, organizing, and analyzing IR data. "Technologies not traditionally associated with corporate reporting,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard option Peter Barrett: Remote... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

Profile

Dana Hoffmann

science graduate, and the pair immediately began discussing new venture ideas. They entered the startup world with a company to sell a sensor for tennis rackets to help improve performance. But it was classes such as the Founders’... View Details

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

Meridith Unger (MBA 2010), founder of Nix, a startup that is developing a single-use, wearable sensor to determine a person’s real-time hydration status, says that this stems directly from the risky nature of venture capital. (Unger... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

use people analytics to improve how people work. These badges, and the multiple sensors inside of them, allow careful tracking of interactions in the workplace. Ben was kind enough to partner with us to help us measure, carefully and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

organized. Other facts are generated by so-called digital sensors operating worldwide in industrial equipment, autos, and the like. By linking the sensors, an "industrial Internet" can be created. These trends appear to have "opportunity"... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

going to the doctor for an annual checkup. It helps you catch things early, before your building ends up in the emergency room, where you’ll spend 10 times as much fixing the problem. With the advent of new sensor technologies, it’s also... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

25 Aug 2022
News

Ready for Departure

First-of-its-kind infrared proximity sensors detect the motion of a finger as it hovers over the screen; the same technology has been installed in the elevators. Passengers also have the option of registering their iris and facial... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2017
News

How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

Mayo’s Neural Engineering Laboratory began to make dramatic improvements to the technology behind the treatment. Instead of requiring constant tweaking like a typical deep brain stimulation device, Harmoni’s sensors work to keep the brain... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

Certainly things having to do with safety and security. I like to use an example of, we met with a company that makes robots that look like snakes and these snakes have sensors all over them and they send these snakes to try to go into... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

and unreliable power grids in nations like Liberia and Tanzania. They don’t wait for government to connect the dots. The second and likely more powerful new capability arises from the combined arrival of three technologies all enabled by feature phones and smart... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

designing soft robotic gloves that aid with upper extremity issues. A patient with a spinal cord injury may use the glove to pinch fingers together, making lifting a glass easier. Future work will focus on using sensors that respond to a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

Internet: adding digital sensors to its machines; connecting them to a common, cloud-based software platform; investing in software development capabilities; building advanced analytics capabilities; and embracing crowd-based product... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

Johnston says these four companies represent the variety of start-ups Aging2.0 is working with: Sabi improves day-to-day life by rethinking the most commonly used products and tools to elevate everyday moments with superior functionality and design. Lively uses... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

sitting in or that you own or manage, and we bet with just a little effort you could find out precisely how much energy it uses in a typical year. That’s because it essentially only takes one or a handful of cheap sensors and a couple of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316144-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-002 Digital Lumens: Creating Value Through Software Digital Lumens, founded in 2007, developed and implemented intelligent LED lighting solutions for the industrial market. View Details