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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Digital Transformation Of Health Care
The digital revolution has dramatically improved health care delivery and discovery in recent years. Artificial intelligence is enhancing diagnostic machines and enabling wearable medical devices to collect critical data. Automation is... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- News
HBS Startup Is Developing Tech-Enabled Jewelry to Stop Rapists
at the Harvard i-lab. Working with survivors of sexual assault and with a team of MIT engineers, the cofounders of Flare Jewelry are developing wearable devices that include an alarm, text messaging to alert the wearer’s phone contacts of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
occurred in 2020. “COVID-19 is a dreadful pandemic,” she says in the following discussion, “but it has turned everything upside down in the health care sector in some good ways.” What are the most interesting digital health care innovations to emerge in recent years? I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
organize the future. But this will change as Facebook becomes a prospective medium—a dynamic, real-time driver that will automatically gather current and future information that wearable devices will automatically broadcast about us,... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
of commercial tech monetization, which includes wearable products in the health care category. The opportunity appealed to me in part because it uses so much of what I learned this year, including term sheets, market evaluation, and what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Bone Health Technologies Laura Yecies (MBA 1988), CEO Concept: OsteoBoost, a wearable vibration belt that is designed to treat osteopenia and prevent osteoporosis by reducing bone... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
Walsh spoke about creating wearable robotic equipment to help people with physical disabilities, and HBS professor Lauren H. Cohen outlined research focusing on “patent trolls” that sue cash-rich companies for patent violations. Ongoing... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
trolling up front and weed out patent trolling lawsuits early in the process,” Cohen said. “(A review board) would screen out good NPEs from bad NPEs.” For more information on patent trolling, watch Cohen’s video, “Patent Trolls: Evidence and Proposed Solutions.” Soft... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Ahmed (AB 2012) and his team designed WHOOP, a wearable fitness strap that collects physiological data to help athletes, their coaches, and trainers analyze strain, recovery, and sleep. The startup, one of the first unicorns to come out... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
Ivy Ross uses the word “magic” more than once as she describes the changes that Google Glass could bring to the shopping experience. The woman in charge of Glass’s consumer launch is brainstorming potential uses for the $1,500 wearable... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
Human Performance Lab will incorporate new insights into wearable digital sensors. At the Female Athlete Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, this approach has already led researchers to recommend reassessing guidelines for women who... View Details
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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog
systems, streaming media, intellectual property, mobile communications, electronic ink, blockchain, crypto currency, and wearable technology. Course Content and Organization The course is structured into six modules: Network Effects:... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Meridith Unger (MBA 2010), founder of Nix, a startup that is developing a single-use, wearable sensor to determine a person’s real-time hydration status, says that this stems directly from the risky nature of venture capital. (Unger... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Gone Too Far When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it. How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit Reshmaan... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
results," but they can also produce many false negatives and positives that have to be anticipated and proactively managed. Jeff Rutherford suggested that control in the hands of beneficiaries of the analytics will address needs for privacy. As he put it, "if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
airports. As people begin to internalize the collective nature of public health, sharing of personal health and air quality metrics—using wearables and smartphones—could lead to new applications that provide real-time information about... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
dialysis device, a femtech device using genomics to enable women’s care, a biosensing wearable to prevent dehydration, and an oxygen sensor for personalized oncology care. They have collectively raised more than $485M in funding and an... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
This was part of Nike’s strategy to blend digital technology with its physical products, fostering a fitness and wellness ecosystem. Nike soon realized, however, that its market position in the FuelBand was not defensible. The wearable... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
stores in the fall of 2021 and through an ecommerce channel in early 2022. The switch has better aligned the company with the wave of interest in sports tech and connected health, Cass notes, and distanced it from the more saturated View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
took place at the Signature Conference. MedEXO Robotics won 2017 HBSAHK Startup of the Year, out of a field of 40 companies. Sophia, the company’s social humanoid robot, announced the win. MedEXO, which is creating wearable technology to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley