Virtual Reality - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

networks of networks. Currently, he said, universities and labs use it to connect researchers working on collaborative projects. These projects can range from building virtual reality models of the ear—a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

cheap and rapid iteration as cheap and rapid experimentation. The ability to run experiments cheaply and quickly is an important benefit when the cost of iteration is low. Simulation technologies, for example, allow automakers to run View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

might be working with peers in pharmaceuticals or defense to accelerate the development of virtual reality capabilities. In my work, I use the ethnographic methods of anthropology to study transformation as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2009
HBS Case

The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine

In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia's energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine's energy company in the depths of winter. The move confirmed the fears of many in the West that the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Energy; Utilities

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

it as a chronic condition like cardiovascular disease, rather than as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting The Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

constraints, Stephenson believed a digital world could be truly limitless. Chatter about the metaverse peaked in late 2021, almost three decades after Stephenson’s novel was published, when Mark Zuckerberg announced he would build the View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

Digital Initiative and the HBX Live virtual classroom, the o-Lab aims to help businesses solve their problems by changing the way their company is organized, and to make that change by introducing a more theoretical and experimental... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

link the islands of expertise together, they need to look at two broad kinds of mechanisms, according to Pisano: organizational—"so firms can expand their boundaries to include multiple capabilities. Virtual integration is a form of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

all possible ways. Pin down whatever balance sheet strengthening, if any, that can be attained. Keep a realistic, but positive public demeanor. Fear is contagious. Naidoo: Use the Agile approach to stay nimble Accept how challenging these times are, balanced with the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia's drug candidate through Clinical 2 trials with a to-market goal of 2014. "The Business Plan Contest taught me how to ground a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

how fast it should be moving. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817127-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-405 Virtual Reality and the Gaming Sector 2017 This brief note... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

communities in the United States and the world are experiencing very different realities as the year draws to a close. While you might have an idea you believe in, I would err on the side of humility and test if and where your ideas might... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

2004–2016 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717477-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-013 Making Virtual Reality Real This note describes View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

continue to evolve. Performance improves and prices drop. Today, artificial intelligence is used in the selection of retail sites and to facilitate one-to-one marketing programs; voice recognition routes callers to specific store departments; View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

industries that can be anybody, anywhere. While some observers have dismissed the phenomenon as exclusive to "a few crazy Internet companies in California," the reality is this: the value of corporate incumbency these days is... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

“Supercomputing has opened up massive innovations in nuclear startups by allowing us to simulate the inside of a nuclear reactor for a mere $200 million instead of $6 billion!” As new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

bad results. If this premise seems plausible, then we should ask: Have recent declines in startup valuations and VC investments have been big enough to elicit another threat-rigidity response? Probably not—at least not yet. But when bright shiny objects—akin to today’s... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

innovative, social value-creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, government, or business sectors. While virtually all enterprises, commercial and social, generate social value, fundamental to this definition is... View Details