Prototyping - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

receive credits for emission reductions related to new nuclear power plants - including both those under construction and those still in prototype stages. Harvard Business School Professor Joe Lassiter believes nuclear power is an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

whether individuals could make a difference in laggard companies. She said one effective strategy for individuals is to back initiatives inside the company—everything from guest speakers to building prototype products—which raise the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

of well-designed business experiments can address new and unknown markets. In contrast, running experiments where early product prototypes are shown to customers can address need uncertainty. Q: How should organizations respond when... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

“That goes against what previous research has said.” After the first week, participants rated other teams’ prototypes anonymously, without knowing who created them. The three highest-scoring teams were awarded prizes worth 45,000 Indian... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

get access to sites for stress testing of prototype designs, as well as high upfront cost and uncertain timeliness of the regulatory process, that are the primary barriers to raising private capital today. The United States President's... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

"It's interesting to see Ventilla applying entrepreneurial concepts often associated with technology startups to the field of education," Kim said in a recent interview. "He is employing rapid prototyping strategies with... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

understand how people choose their work partners—and how those choices impact the results in a competitive or cooperative environment. Once their results are solidified in the lab the team will return to the field, find some prototypical... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

hit. In its first two years on the market, Sony sold out its limited production of 100,000 units. During what amounts to a five-year market test of a flawed technology, Sony has gathered invaluable consumer feedback to guide continued development of its robots. The... View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

Brown University, in the hope that they will adopt it and fund his company, EverTrue. He lacks the technical knowledge necessary to make the prototype himself, and so has to quickly decide on the best option. He is considering multiple... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

able to come up with very rapid kinds of prototypes and vaccine candidates would not have been possible in the traditional just-lab structure,” Kerr says. As the shift drew innovation from a handful of big population centers like Los... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

the constraints of its and the company's mission and values. Leonard and Swap identify several ways to facilitate this task. Working with a physical prototype of a new product, they suggest, provides a tangible focus. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

alternatives, the world's governments need to act. They must redesign their nuclear regulatory practices and provide physical facilities for prototype evaluation that will let private capital take on the tasks of technical innovation,... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

MBA 2010), who founded the company when he was a second-year student at HBS. In the case, EverTrue is creating a mobile application that would allow schools to connect more easily to their alumni networks. Grinna was asked to build a View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

When furniture designer Herman Miller presented a prototype of its sleek, mesh Aeron chair to a consumer focus group, many asked if they could see a finished, upholstered version. Innovative product design can be a risky proposition. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

Meg Whitman, which led to a global micro-projects strategy. With eBay, Hill says, the authors wanted to show how Whitman's willingness to experiment with rapid prototyping "broke rules to get something done," and modeled such behavior for... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details