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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
firm that's providing a new model of entrepreneurship. "More generally, crowdsourcing has now been successfully applied in a range of settings, from designing T-shirts to creating complex software products... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now accessories—for short-term rental... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. Citing the military as a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
we could tap the wisdom of the crowd to help design them? When you start thinking about making cars this way, at some point you’ve ceased thinking about cars and started thinking about a modern alternative to mass production. People will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control quality and respond to market... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
other chemicals) from carbon dioxide. His goal was to demonstrate—through research, discovery, and good business—a new way forward in reducing CO2 emissions. The first step was to lay out the photosynthesis process in black and white on a whiteboard. Brix then began to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
not an aberration. Street and graffiti artists like Banksy and KAWS—the latter famous for his remixes of pop culture figures like The Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePants—are rising fixtures in the art world, headlining significant museum shows, View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Faculty Research
How to Avoid a Price Increase Manufacturers usually pass on any cost increases in their materials to consumers. The result is often a price increase (gasoline) or, less often, a smaller amount of product at the same price (potato chips).... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Stacey A. Lawson (MBA '96) came to HBS with an idea brewing. The former IBM engineer wondered why there were no digital libraries for users of computer-aided design (CAD). Despite the pervasiveness of technology throughout industry, she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
all talent is welcome, regardless of gender. You’ve worked with Jeff Hawkins, the creator of the PalmPilot and Visor, for nearly ten years. What makes your working relationship so successful? We really complement each other. Jeff is focused on View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
can go really high tech, with algorithms behind the scenes that post prices at very high frequencies, or you can go the route that we took in collaboration with Zalora, which was to approach the problem by designing the online store in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Seeing glass in a new light
Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) wants to transform the building industry by disrupting a common product: glass. View Dynamic Glass brings smart windows to buildings, and is gaining rapid adoption in North America—the California-based company sold out of View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
spark a home-design revolution. A Passive House is designed to be ultra-energy efficient. Some, like Harper’s Victorian, achieve net-zero-energy demand by pairing low-energy use with solar panels for energy production. Harper’s home is... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in-country executives. For country-specific products (such as baseball shoes in the United States), Adidas prefers using in-country designers rather than design teams working... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
so increase your prospects for developing innovative products and services. —RT —Clayton Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration and the coauthor with Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen of The Innovator’s DNA:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
from the University of Washington and worked for Boeing, testing the 747 autopilot. His penchant for design led Hamilton to quit Boeing and launch the People Products Company, a consumer View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
experience I have had," he says. At 44, Dumon has had more experience than most. A self-described "Internet product guy," he has known both success and failure, and he believes that failure can be a good teacher. "Once, when we tried an... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
"everyday garden" line is expected to exceed $1 billion in sales within three years. Based on the success of her two-year-old bed-and-bath Kmart product line, which has already surpassed the $1-billion mark, that lofty goal seems... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process View Details