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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed and made in Kenya, with rugged... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
just become empty nesters and they don't feel like they're motivated anymore to do the job. Because there's just not enough job for them to do. DM: One of the things I really connected with was this idea of proactively prototyping that... View Details
- 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
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
2008. Since winning the Alumni New Venture Contest, which came with $25,000 and a mentoring opportunity with HBS faculty, Sundaram has grown from a staff of four to 16, and, after a stumble with outsourcing the prototype fabrication, has... View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
Plays) resulted from many hours of user research to understand the unmet needs of sports fans and then months of prototyping and iteration, all of which were hard skills I learned in TOM and the Product Management course. The development... 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 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
the concept requires investment in a specialized infrastructure, a pivotal moment came in 2004, when Mountz convinced Staples to run a paid pilot in a small zone of one of its warehouses. “We had a prototype by that point,” he recalls,... 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 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
- 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 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
a start-up, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes, provide practical tips on user acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
specified times, since plugged-in devices draw power in shut-off or “standby” mode. “The concept was so obvious that we decided to take the risk and do it,” Shibata says. The company had a beta prototype ready to go in 15 months; after 15... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and promising a new generation of singles a better way to date. With the help of Facebook and smartphones, this new era of online dating entrepreneurs is trying to design women-friendly dating options. If you squint, you can find an early View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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