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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
It’s a good fit because Barbie was on the downswing at one point, and they introduced various iterations of the doll, but it still needed a bigger boost. The new CEO’s approach—this idea that ‘We’re not a toy company anymore; we’re an IP... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation Records contain a vast array of materials that document the history and evolution of America’s first credit reporting firm. Coverage extends from the firm’s first iteration as the Mercantile Agency, then... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
development was evolutionary in nature. Companies first would release a low-functionality version of a product to selected customers at a very early stage of development. Thereafter work would proceed in an iterative fashion, with the... View Details
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Whitney Wilson
thinks about it.” To stretch herself even further, Whitney participated in the week-long Start-Up Boot Camp during the winter break. “You come up with an idea – you either found or join a team – and during the week, you iterate on your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
growth significantly. How do we go about finding the financing that we need to expand?” The Answers: I have started and operated three iterations of childcare companies going back 25 years. We encountered the same issues. We addressed the... View Details
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA
identify new marketing ideas and iterate based on the feedback they received from interviews with 21 seniors, 14 of their middle-aged children, and 12 younger relatives. “Our number one recommendation, to break down barriers between... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
follow on topics such as business history; leadership, values, and ethics; society and enterprise; quantitative methods; and economics of markets. "By having two iterations of Foundations each year," says Wheelwright, "we've been able to... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
which investors should have access in order to make informed investment decisions, it engaged in a public comment period, soliciting feedback from various stakeholders about the provisional standards it developed by sector. As such, it is View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
based on that iterative process, rather than jumping in with both feet to create a comprehensive digital platform from day one. —Darria Long Gillespie (MBA 2005) Given all the political turmoil, News Bling should stay the course, build... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
three-step process, and you can’t skip the second step. Solve is an iterative process. You will not get it right the first time. So iterate, test hypotheses, invest small amounts of resources at first, and make incremental progress to the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
can do research,” he says. And finally, PAD’s iterative approach is based literally on the ground and out in the field, circumventing the dangers of so-called solutions that don’t meet the practical needs of the end user. “We’re doing a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
percent of Americans believed online dating was a good way to meet people, a 15 percent increase from a 2005 survey.) All of these online dating companies were selling similar things to different niches of the dating world. This first View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
The torpedoes kept coming. Not to be dramatic or anything, but for any product developer this is the most painful moment of their career. The moment when the fledgling idea you’ve spent months, maybe years, cultivating, testing, prototyping, View Details
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
The torpedoes kept coming. Not to be dramatic or anything, but for any product developer this is the most painful moment of their career. The moment when the fledgling idea you’ve spent months, maybe years, cultivating, testing, prototyping, View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
another’s work and propose a new case study for future iterations of the course. Why This Course SESC provides a holistic approach to tackling social and environmental problems. This course offers a unique opportunity to learn from both... View Details
- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
disrupting the market. My heart was in Mexico, and so my partner and I started thinking about how we might be able to make an impact in this health care space. What progress have you made this year? We’ve opened our first MVP clinic in Mexico to learn and View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
team. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining the business continuity and disaster recovery management plan, ensuring a robust and effective response to potential disasters. Process: Maintaining the plan iteratively and... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
School and expanding upon their global leadership capabilities." Kate Mitkevicius and Professor Vikram Gandhi at a steel plant near Bangalore, India. Mitkevicius and her colleague Kristen McCarthy are managing the second iteration of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
on citizens. (See slideshow below.) Click on image to view slideshowWeb sites help Boston citizens visualize what government is doing to help them. In the first iteration of the website, the researchers included only the number of open... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
our first visit, Sr. Director of Technology Soren Kristiansen walked us through the LEGO Group’s efforts to develop the next generation of blocks. Their team is working in parallel on bio-based and recycled plastics, iterating on... View Details