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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
he was teaching in first-year Finance in the early 1980s. People, opportunity, context, and deal, changing iteratively over time. Sahlman cites a contemporary example: the Casper “bed-in-a-box” foam mattress company that launched in 2014.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
States but around the world that hamper rapid iteration and experimentation in the product development process. This, in turn, stifles innovation, scares off private investors and creates an industry-regulatory culture that has grown to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
grown in different directions. Palm had produced several great iterations of handhelds, and we had focused on building a great smartphone, so we were quite complementary," says Dubinsky, who negotiated the merger in 2003 and remains on... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
improved long-term retention rates. In the early days, it’s best to optimize for product feedback. If it’s easier to sell to smaller customers (with more volume), stick with this segment and treat the feedback as gold. Rapidly iterate... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
traditional theories of leader selection describe organizations as picking leaders with particular characteristics, LFT sees organizations as having a filtration process that evaluates a pool of candidates and iteratively removes them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
learned, take action based upon these lessons, then adapt and iterate and react to what they observed." Enter FIELD. First proposed at the end of 2010, the idea was so enthusiastically embraced by incoming Dean Nitin Nohria that he... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
interface with an existing business and see the impact of my recommendations then further iterate in real-time. Jay Kim: Being able to apply the newly learned data science skills such as coding in python, using Jupyter notebooks, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
Specialisterne seems uniquely suited to the kind of consulting work that requires tremendous powers of concentration. Not all software testing lends itself to offshoring. Certainly, some testing may be automated, but other elements cannot when the work requires a lot... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
faster—for two reasons. First, a company can bypass the expensive and error-prone effort to understand customer needs in detail. Second, the trial-and-error cycles that inevitably occur during product development can progress much more quickly because the View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
increasing costs for Yatooq. Alwaalan reflected on the decisions she made to date, wondering if the revenue decline could have been avoided. She also contemplated the path forward, specifically whether she should iterate on her... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
often support underserved communities and regions that at this time need the most support. Adopting an Agile response, with a leadership model that provides a focused set of actions combined with an operating system that iteratively is... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
toll on all involved, it assembled a cross section of people to explore ways of avoiding so much pressure in making future films. One of the key suggestions was to lock the story—not allow any further changes after some point early in the process. Constant story View Details
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
product. “ From the beginning, Marcelo built a company grounded in purpose - ““I realized the importance of articulating mission, vision and values from day one,”“ she said. “I learned how important transparent goal setting is and also that... 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
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
in each other a desire for something more, something outside the bounds of what we could imagine for ourselves, by ourselves. Love, we learned, is not just a process of wanting one another or normative markers of happiness, but also wanting the best View Details
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
modular programs that include time spent both abroad and on the HBS campus by launching a new Senior Executive Leadership Program–China with solid enrollments. Executive Education delivered the second and third iterations of SELP–Middle... 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
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Process is essentially design thinking, and it’s the framework that I live by to create, pilot, test, and iterate the products and insights underlying my business.” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Aishetu Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002), founder... 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