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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
on me. I really believe in this company.” But for the most part, we don’t invest if we can’t both get there. We don’t make decisions lightly. It’s an iterative process. We just invested in one company that I think we first met a year and... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
(centered) around rapid iteration and customer insight." One way to address the challenge, according to Jeffrey Vetter, is to "separate out forward thinking groups from the day to day business." Dave Schnedler suggested... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
charges a fixed fee for a “managed service” product with which she can run the algorithm in-house while co-designing and iterating with brands. To drive revenue in the short term, Shelly is creating her own zero waste products as well as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
percent of Americans believed online dating was a good way to meet people, a 15 percent increase from a 2005 survey.) All of these online dating companies were selling similar things to different niches of the dating world. This first View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
by the Department of Defense. In his chapter on the history of the Internet, Shane Greenstein examines the role of the federal government and the iterative process that DARPA engaged in to develop what would become the Internet. So it's... View Details
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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online
learning from them and differentiate between basic, complex, and intelligent failure. Highlights Intelligent Failure Experimentation and Iteration Show Hide Details Concepts Failing Well Intelligent Failure Basic Failure and Blameless... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
Wagaroo. The initial iteration of Wagaroo was based entirely on trying to develop an effective matching algorithm. Prospective owners filled out surveys, indicating preferences about factors such as size, breed, energy level, age, and... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
provide the tool kit and get a community of support around it, maybe we could get more experiments done, and we could make more progress as a result.” To learn more about the o-Lab and the creation of business theories: The Organization Lab (o-Lab): How might we create... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
the practicality of the program. As someone who deeply appreciates getting his hands dirty and not being bogged down in theory, I enjoyed being able to interface with an existing business and see the impact of my recommendations then further View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
LAB The rapid advancement of the crypto sector has sometimes been compared to the early days of the internet. As the internet sprints toward a Web3 future (Web 3.0, the next iteration of the World Wide Web) that will enable users to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
some of the most important ideas to emerge in a collaborative process are unrelated to any stated goal; that creativity requires an inherently iterative structure (trying and trying again); that “wrong” choices are necessary to make real... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
diversity of international experience in such cases could be a boon to students in solving such problems. With such experiments, Narayanan and his colleagues are embracing the dynamic quality of the course in their design—using their own View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
dinner and saying it’s a fait accompli,” Peterson tells the group, referring to the need to balance input between management and clinicians. “It has to be messy for the first hour.” Two people are charged with creating the first iteration... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
on citizens. (See slideshow below.) Click on image to view slideshowWeb sites help Boston citizens visualize what government is doing to help them. In the first iteration of the website, the researchers included only the number of open... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
our first visit, Sr. Director of Technology Soren Kristiansen walked us through the LEGO Group’s efforts to develop the next generation of blocks. Their team is working in parallel on bio-based and recycled plastics, iterating on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
partnered with a co-founder who had brewing experience to start building the plan for the first iteration of Reveler Beverage, a brewery and gastropub. They laid the groundworks for the company and were close to finalizing a deal for... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
assessment from the solving phase. In most cases, innovators engage simultaneously in definition/solution/assessment stages and iteratively define the problem and its solution. Open innovation breaks this vertical integration and forces... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
select set of the "top people." Planning for One Strategy is iterative and collaborative, defining a framework for executing on the strategic priorities, while refining the strategy and aligning the organization around its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
the district's failures has been held up as a model for other cities, Alonso underscores the iterative process required to effect system-wide improvement. "My first year at PELP, we were launching a huge reform effort that pushed... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product development pipelines and reshape their relationships with customers. Drawing on academic research and interviews with practitioners, this note... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman