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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
was a hardware incubator. There was a specialty coffee maker on one end, right? So, you walk in there, you have like coffee there. It's like brewing. There was a hamburger-making robot behind us. So, you had the smell of hamburgers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Elevator Pitch: First Byte
March, the company announced $5.5 million in funding. COVID-aware: “Our business model is CapEx light; business owners pay on a commission basis for every meal the robot makes, which alleviates a lot of risk. And in terms of health and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Six drone companies put their wares in the air during Making Robotics Fly, a daylong event cohosted by HBS and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to explore the intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
percent is spent on labor. Those factors inspired Andersen to found Augean Robotics (AGR), makers of an autonomous farm robot called Burro, which has the carrying capacity of a sure-footed donkey and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that manages to steer clear of that fate.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
require assistance at any point in the airport can use digital screens with video-calling functionality to connect with a virtual ambassador service to have their questions answered. The terminals—with more than one million square meters of flooring—are kept clean by a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
computing to social impact bonds, from industrial robots to personal finance, from Internet retailing to Internet radio—a plethora of products and services that could well bear the stamp “Made by HBS.” View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
building robots and doing things that help the world both locally and globally. “I think what HBS did for me was [that it] began to make me a global thinker and a thinker about large problems and strategies for getting from one place to... 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
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
Robots, the local basketball team. The Ibaraki Robots have now, in five years, grown its revenues eight times, grown attendance five times, and been promoted to a top category league just like the NBA in the US . The second thing we did... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
that could cost a company several months of time, hundreds of millions of dollars, or both. Later, working as a product manager for a robotics and automation startup after HBS, McLemore realized that the problem wasn’t unique to the... 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 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
play. It wasn’t clear if, or how, a movie would ever fit into this point of view. When Lin first approached Lego, the company hedged, asking him to consider working on a specific play theme like Lego’s robot line Bionicle—making the Lego... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
something new, which shows that you can’t create a computerized system with all the answers, not yet. There are human factors and emotions involved beyond the probability statistics. But that’s what makes this work fascinating—otherwise we would have View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
investment outlook in the region, and was moderated by Blair Pickerell (MBA 1984), Former Chairman, Asia of Nikko Asset Management and Chairman of Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong. Robotics concept wins HBSAHK Startup... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
Certainly things having to do with safety and security. I like to use an example of, we met with a company that makes robots that look like snakes and these snakes have sensors all over them and they send these snakes to try to go into... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
podcast with a woman from the National Air and Space Museum talking about how we really need to send people to Mars to collect rocks and better understand evolution. “And I’m thinking, ‘Why can’t we send a robot to Mars to collect the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
Cisco Systems, Netscape, Wired magazine, and the Palm Computing division of U.S. Robotics - hosted ninety-minute information sessions at their companies. CEOs and other senior managers, including some company founders, presented the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
metal-stamping machine is set up and the press is running, a single worker can operate two or three presses. “In fact,” says Chirchirillo, “our McHenry plant produces parts for a lower per-piece price than the high-quality Chinese factories can.” CGM recently purchased... View Details