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- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(MBA 2023), Heung Kim Faced with a problem all surgeons have struggled with for decades—the buildup of fluid (blood) that prevents effective and safe tissue dissection—the ClearCut Surgical team prototyped a simple solution to the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
still felt limited in what we could explore. Our process included several meetings to synthesize the ideas into four categories, three rounds of voting on the best categories, two prototypes to test out our favorite ideas and countless... View Details
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE POLAROID FILMS RESEARCH LINKS Digital Archival Resources Archival Collections Bibliography... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Arts Focus: Arts Funding Team: Victoria Sung Description: Over the fall term, I worked with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to conceptualize and create a prototype for Lincoln Center Global Perspectives, an annual publication that... View Details
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
day-to-day operations, including prototyping facilities, and I serve as an optional startup advisor. I found out about the position through an HBS alum, and while I didn’t use any specific tactics to secure the job, the tight-knit MS/MBA... View Details
- 12 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)
day-to-day operations, including prototyping facilities, and I serve as an optional startup advisor. I found out about the position through an HBS alum, and while I didn’t use any specific tactics to secure the job, the tight-knit MS/MBA... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
Meg Whitman, which led to a global micro-projects strategy. With eBay, Hill says, the authors wanted to show how Whitman's willingness to experiment with rapid prototyping "broke rules to get something done," and modeled such behavior for... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
tech companies on digital and technology transformation with McKinsey and Company, and previously worked as an engineer deploying rapid prototyping devices for Intel and Apple. Yuval discusses his path to HBS, experience at Harvard... View Details
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
closed (low-power) poses, and then prepared and delivered a speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview, a prototypical social evaluation. All speeches were videotaped and coded for overall performance, hireability, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
challenges in building the operation was that the lack of existing models simply made it hard to explain. “People had prototypes for foundations. And they had prototypes for VC funds. This was neither.” Now... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
publication of Competing in the Age of AI, the book Lakhani coauthored with Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration. Salas was eager to be involved in this prototype of the Learning Network, and Lakhani asked... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
When furniture designer Herman Miller presented a prototype of its sleek, mesh Aeron chair to a consumer focus group, many asked if they could see a finished, upholstered version. Innovative product design can be a risky proposition. Yet... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
prototype PalmPilot, consumers—and investors—were giving up on handheld devices. Just as the pair were running out of options, U.S. Robotics saw their potential and offered to buy Palm and help them deliver their first model. While some... View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
able to come up with very rapid kinds of prototypes and vaccine candidates would not have been possible in the traditional just-lab structure,” Kerr says. As the shift drew innovation from a handful of big population centers like Los... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
the constraints of its and the company's mission and values. Leonard and Swap identify several ways to facilitate this task. Working with a physical prototype of a new product, they suggest, provides a tangible focus. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
editing in biotech, 3D printing has allowed for rapid prototyping for hardware startups, and reusable rockets have brought down the cost to build and launch a small satellite to under a million dollars. “And we often see advances in one... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
This requires companies to be astute about how they prototype and test. IDEO adheres to the “three Rs” rule: rough, rapid, and right. For example, when testing the ergonomics of a new type of telephone receiver, View Details