Iteration - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda's team took nothing for granted. With each new problem they encountered, it recalibrated, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

control room, located in a converted shipping container The hardware reset was successful, and Oscilla recently deployed a version of Triton off the coast of Hawaii. (Known as Triton-C, this iteration should someday be capable of powering... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

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

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had been taste-tested live, with good results, and Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, had provided Post with much of the funding to make the burgers. The next step was to form an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

the plans over many iterations of the course, they are a good reflection of the kinds of debates that nearly any group, reading that text, might have. For example, it would be very hard to read Sophocles' play Antigone and not discuss the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

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

21 Mar 2025
News

What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

kind of, I kind of ensnared him in that way. DM: Was he happy with it by the end? TB: By the end he was. So we worked together on the book starting that summer. We didn’t officially start calling it what it was for maybe, call it, six months or so. And then we worked... View Details

Keywords: Finance

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

As the Wild West of the new communications frontier shakes out, Baldwin predicts that companies will use many iterations to combine producer- and user-created elements in their business strategies in an effort to find the right balance.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

development of Project Bison, a planned direct air capture (DAC) facility in southwest Wyoming. Our strategy is focused on what we’re calling “modular open system architecture.” We are trying to build as much modularity into our system as possible so that we can learn... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

with asked tough questions that made us think about the critical issues and figure out if we had a viable business.” “John Deighton was — in a very positive way — a healthy skeptic,” says ZEFER’s Tjan of his faculty advisor. “He helped us push and refine our ideas so... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2015
News

Higher Ground

orchestra’s longest-serving members, his tenure extending to the group’s previous iteration as the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. When that orchestra went bankrupt in 1991, felled by poor management, the musicians decided they probably... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

direction, Radiometer began an intensive program of process improvements using the Danaher Business System (DBS), an iterative tool system and company culture that sought to continuously improve the company's growth and lean and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2020
News

Can This Man Change the American Diet?

transparency in the food industry, and the iterative process that created Clover’s different look and feel. READ MORE Julia Hanna: So how would you describe Clover Food Lab to someone who’s never been there before? Ayr Muir: At its most... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played... View Details