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- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
students,” Ofek says. “How do you manage this growth phase?” The case describes the prototypes that Nanda developed as potential complements to Clocky: Ticky, which sported digital minute and hour hands as opposed to a standard digital... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
themselves as entrepreneurs. “There’s a misunderstanding that you have to be from a certain place, to look a certain way, to have a certain type of background training, to have one type of personality—all these misconceptions about what the View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
talent—which is a little like picking a stock before it goes up, she says—and then shopped their prototypes of plates and bowls, platters and vases around to gauge interest. The responses she got confirmed her hunch that chefs were eager... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
thousand dollars he collected from fifteen friends, Clinkscales put together a prototype of the magazine. With a cover story titled "Divided We Fall" and with the 24-year-old Clinkscales listed as editor and publisher, the debut issue of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
changes we’ve seen with the consumer internet sector are now beginning to happen in other industries. If you look at hardware, rapid prototyping has really revolutionized the way hardware startups are built. The burgeoning space sector,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
to really pull from my experiences of just tinkering and using anything to create prototypes. I was also really comfortable with the stages of prototyping and understanding that, when you first have a concept, it will eventually develop... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
black box that transforms ideas into actual products and services. "Little bets labs," for example, allow companies large and small to rapidly build and test prototypes in the market using inexpensive web resources. "Find someone with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
intense and very structured: take a concept idea and get to a real prototype for customers to interact with by the end of the day,” Sapone says. On Wednesday of that first Startup Lockdown, the group worked on a concept then called... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
product attempts that missed the mark on health outcomes—including a prototype of a smart bike and apps for fitness and calorie tracking. “In order to have a healthy outcome, our users need to adopt a healthy lifestyle—daily,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
vocals, and precision highs. We’re pretty excited about that, and we think our customers will be too. We’ve recently brought our product development process in-house, so instead of sourcing products in Asia, we can take a concept from a blank sheet of paper through to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
workforce protection. The company will continue to make the shields, but is now refocused on prototyping disposable gowns and protective coverings, which represent the most urgently needed PPE. The challenge, Rose says, is finding an... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
so. When Verdant began deploying prototype turbines in the East River nearly 20 years ago, for instance, the company’s actions raised immediate concerns among fishermen and federal regulators. And while the startup proved that its... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
faculty office building) and Baker Hall (now Esteves), a residence hall for Executive Education participants. Typically, he left nothing to chance. According to a 1993 article in Harvard Magazine, “Professor Uyterhoeven resurrected the idea of the mock-up, constructing... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
vocals, and precision highs. We’re pretty excited about that, and we think our customers will be too. We’ve recently brought our product development process in-house, so instead of sourcing products in Asia, we can take a concept from a blank sheet of paper through to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
on carbon conversion and turning his garage—temporarily—into a laboratory. TB: I ultimately came upon an electrochemical type of process which turned out could be pretty easily prototyped at a very small scale in one's garage—buying some... View Details