Iterative - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

change the structure, processes, and behavior of an organization while at the same time developing commitment that ensures execution. SFP is also a research method. By applying SFP iteratively to new and challenging situations,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

is a critical first step in assembling the capabilities required to succeed. We would, in Pandesic's instance, want a CEO who in the past had launched a venture thinking he or she had the right strategy, realized it wasn't working, and then View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

mission we could commit to for life,” said Jeong, who launched Noom with cofounder Artem Petakov in 2008, in order to “help people everywhere lead healthier lives.” Jeong said that mission helped them through several iterations of ideas... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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)

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

team. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining the business continuity and disaster recovery management plan, ensuring a robust and effective response to potential disasters. Process: Maintaining the plan iteratively and... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

28 Oct 2024
Blog Post

It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School

School and expanding upon their global leadership capabilities." Kate Mitkevicius and Professor Vikram Gandhi at a steel plant near Bangalore, India. Mitkevicius and her colleague Kristen McCarthy are managing the second iteration of... View Details

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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

process specific to your team's needs 6-7 hrs Module 4 Failing Well Recognize mistakes’ significance and the value of learning from them and differentiate between basic, complex, and intelligent failure. Highlights Intelligent Failure Experimentation and 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

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

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

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

customers, and just start pressure testing it. You’re going to get a crazy amount of feedback and you’re going to iterate really quickly.” Build a team around yourself. “It’s really about figuring out what is your superpower versus what... View Details

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

knowledge for care and the way it is applied in practice to patient health problems. These changes include increasing knowledge specificity and the standardized sequential care processes this has allowed; the experimental nature of some care and the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

dysfunction had been tracked. Key factors for integrating outcomes measurement into the clinical workflow include ongoing communication between cross-functional teams composed of clinicians and technical professionals, an iterative design... View Details