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- 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
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
growth significantly. How do we go about finding the financing that we need to expand?” The Answers: I have started and operated three iterations of childcare companies going back 25 years. We encountered the same issues. We addressed the... 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
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
Ultimately, they hope their product will be unnecessary; until then, they are using feedback as the basic for future iterations of the Flare bracelet, particularly when it comes to style and other options. “That last thing we want to do... View Details
- 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
- 25 Aug 2022
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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
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
can do research,” he says. And finally, PAD’s iterative approach is based literally on the ground and out in the field, circumventing the dangers of so-called solutions that don’t meet the practical needs of the end user. “We’re doing a... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
different employers over the course of his writing career. For now, Dick says he loves working on The Good Wife, which stars Julianna Margulies as a lawyer building a new life and career after her husband, a State’s Attorney, is implicated in a corruption scandal. “The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
well, but it was manual, requiring several redesigns and tweaks to perfect the models. It was frustrating. So Sabin designed a machine learning program that would test all of various parameters of club head design, iterate countless... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network approach was. Ruma would train... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Runway, Good Start Genetics, EGG-energy, Urban Water Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others — the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams submitted plans. Last year, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
follow on topics such as business history; leadership, values, and ethics; society and enterprise; quantitative methods; and economics of markets. "By having two iterations of Foundations each year," says Wheelwright, "we've been able to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
and that these user-innovators, thanks to the Internet, can go through an iterative process much more quickly and cheaply than was true in the past. So, how do you encourage customer-driven innovation and capture some of that value?... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Ink: The Three-Step Startup
three-step process, and you can’t skip the second step. Solve is an iterative process. You will not get it right the first time. So iterate, test hypotheses, invest small amounts of resources at first, and make incremental progress to the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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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
- 21 Mar 2025
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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
- 25 Aug 2022
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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
- 01 Sep 2010
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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