Innovation Lab - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

after only a brief trial. Management was considering whether marketing partnerships and open sourcing its software might relieve strains and facilitate future growth. Linden Lab was also debating whether and how to allow interoperability... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

she needs help reaching existing Bean&Bean customers and attracting new ones. For counsel, she turned to Sarah Endline (MBA 2001), an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) and... View Details

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

Eisenmann’s Startup Bootcamp, Rock Accelerator, and Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Incubation Program all teach entrepreneurial best practices. Despite good effort, finding a technical co-founder remains a... View Details

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

Management; and Fiona E. Murray, associate dean of innovation at Sloan and Kearney's thesis adviser. “Our paper provides concrete proof that gender discrimination exists in the context of entrepreneurial pitching” As a behavioral... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Sep 2016
News

How I Got to Google

Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) (courtesy Prem Ramaswami) Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) (courtesy Prem Ramaswami) Shireen Soheili (MBA 2016) (courtesy Shireen Soheili) Shireen Soheili (MBA 2016) (courtesy Shireen Soheili) During her job hunt for a product manager position,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Past Issues - Alumni

of HBS case studies to share their experiences and ideas about the successful exercise of leadership. Reimagining the MBA HBS Charts a New Course for Educating 21st-Century Leaders Welcome to the Future New HBS classroom “hives” and the Harvard View Details

28 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Novo Nordisk

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers to an open spot. Daniela Rus of MIT's Artificial Intelligence... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

city's Mission Bay neighborhood.) In addition to a current portfolio of 60 companies, Rock Health organizes industry events such as its annual Health Innovation Summit and offers aspiring entrepreneurs free access to its online Startup... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Georges F. Doriot

however, there was a lot of old Yankee money that might be made available for new companies embracing the engineering and technology innovations coming out of local universities and research labs. Howard Anderson, MBA 1968 and now an HBS... View Details

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

black-and-white research lab in charge of creating a stable black-and-white print, which would prove to be years in the making. Nonetheless, the periodical U.S. Camera attested to the artistic potential of the new film: "The Land camera... View Details

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

determine the direction workplace envy takes. Contributors are drawn from many countries and from an extraordinary range of disciplines to share their insight: experimental social psychologists offer insights from lab studies,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

in the transition to a digital world is the willingness to forego some revenues in print. Experiments require not only creativity and boldness but an ability to self-cannibalize. This is perhaps the biggest roadblock to digital reinvention. Don Graham knows this.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

Innovation Lab and Rock Center for Entrepreneurship taught us how to build and organize an agile development team. Meanwhile, we reached out to countless alumni in the technology and telecom space. Again... View Details

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Career Tools & Resources | MBA

unique programming and opportunities, including the Rock Summer Fellows program and the HBS New Venture Competition. You'll have access to world-class centers for entrepreneurship at both the Rock Center and the Harvard Innovation View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

A Conversation with Dean Clark

manage technology in their subsequent careers. BULLETIN: How would you assess the state of the School today? CLARK: This really is a great time to be part of the Harvard Business School. There is a spirit of innovation and enterprise that... View Details

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold Military.com to. Within its first year of operations, Affinity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the Chief Financial Officer For Harvard Business School, fiscal 2023 marked a year of innovation and strong financial performance. As part of Dean Datar’s ambitious... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

What’s Next

experimenting with teaching courses open to undergraduates. Perhaps the best example of collaboration, though, is the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) that HBS launched in 2011. It has become a magnet for... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

behaviors, that provided the foundation for those initiatives. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810018-PDF-ENG iZumi Harvard Business School Case 809-105 Presents the issues faced while building an innovative... View Details