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  • 11 Feb 2014
  • News

The Unexpected Benefits of Rapid Prototyping

Keywords: design process; communication; prototyping; iterative process
  • 21 Jan 2015
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An Ounce of Preparation Is Worth a Pound of Prototypes

Keywords: digital innovation; minimal viable product
  • 02 Jul 2012
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Respecting employees can boost bottom line

  • 01 May 2018
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Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

  • 28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View

Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality
  • 02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

Venture Immersion, a two-week course in January 2019 that included design-thinking exercises and the prototyping of a venture concept. MS/MBA students participated in the Technology Venture Immersion, a two-week course in January 2019... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

process, including Founder's Journey where we actually wrote a case about the early days of starting this company. But raising money, first I mentioned we got some grant funding to get a prototype off the ground. I think when I first... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
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Entrepreneurs’ Fund

month. Said Rumennik, “The Minimum Viable Product Fund, or MVP Fund, alleviates the daunting financial barrier preventing students from building initial prototypes or test products, and encourages them to connect with like-minded peers.”... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2009
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Yurt Man

responsible bonhomie that draws tens of thousands to the scorching hinterlands of summertime Nevada. Playing against festival type, the Hexayurt was not a temporary artsy structure but a prototype for a low-cost home, built from hexacomb... View Details
Keywords: Construction; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes

product prototype would have meant costly and time-consuming changes. In contrast, the second technology could adapt much more readily to design changes, including late-stage customer requests, thus allowing designers greater latitude and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
  • 06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

just become empty nesters and they don't feel like they're motivated anymore to do the job. Because there's just not enough job for them to do. DM: One of the things I really connected with was this idea of proactively prototyping that... View Details
  • 06 Jan 2012
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Where Are They Now?

2008. Since winning the Alumni New Venture Contest, which came with $25,000 and a mentoring opportunity with HBS faculty, Sundaram has grown from a staff of four to 16, and, after a stumble with outsourcing the prototype fabrication, has... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 11 Feb 2016
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Many Voices Working Toward a Solution

problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat categorization. “A partner of mine and I have been engaged in a business View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Books

a start-up, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes, provide practical tips on user acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock

students,” Ofek says. “How do you manage this growth phase?” The case describes the prototypes that Nanda developed as potential complements to Clocky: Ticky, which sported digital minute and hour hands as opposed to a standard digital... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 25 Aug 2022
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Ink: The Three-Step Startup

themselves as entrepreneurs. “There’s a misunderstanding that you have to be from a certain place, to look a certain way, to have a certain type of background training, to have one type of personality—all these misconceptions about what the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 10 May 2023
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Alumna Snags an Emmy

Plays) resulted from many hours of user research to understand the unmet needs of sports fans and then months of prototyping and iteration, all of which were hard skills I learned in TOM and the Product Management course. The development... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue

the concept requires investment in a specialized infrastructure, a pivotal moment came in 2004, when Mountz convinced Staples to run a paid pilot in a small zone of one of its warehouses. “We had a prototype by that point,” he recalls,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; e-commerce; order fulfillment; robotics; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
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