Prototyping - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

companies can crank out a marketable prototype in a matter of months, clean-tech companies can take years to develop products—solar panels, batteries, biofuels, and the like. And even when a working View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

18 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

this. HBS provided an opportunity to meet willing co-founders, gave us tools for prototyping and hard dollars to fund our work, and connected us with a laundry list of students, alumni, and professors to help hone our idea. The... View Details

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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

spent the recession devising machinery and prototypes for his mill, and when investment funds became available in the late 1840s, he was well positioned to put his inventions to work. 19 Dennison’s genius was for innovation, not... View Details

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Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

a start-up, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes, provide practical tips on user acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing... View Details

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

17 Dec 2015
News

Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab

Professor Srikant Datar’s creative problem-solving course, Design Thinking and Innovation, brings students together to hone their skills in identifying opportunities, prototyping solutions, and iterating to meet customer needs. “Creative... View Details

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

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

talent—which is a little like picking a stock before it goes up, she says—and then shopped their prototypes of plates and bowls, platters and vases around to gauge interest. The responses she got confirmed her hunch that chefs were eager... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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

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

26 Oct 2016
Blog Post

From Product Development to Business School

I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a... View Details

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

smoodi during my second year at HBS. During fall, our goal will be to raise funds and build a first machine prototype allowing for further testing. Several companies have already signed up for our beta-test. Having the best learning... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

students,” Ofek says. “How do you manage this growth phase?” The case describes the prototypes that Nanda developed as potential complements to Clocky: Ticky, which sported digital minute and hour hands as opposed to a standard digital... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

prototype branch in the bank's Charlotte headquarters where team members could rehearse the steps involved in an experiment and work out any process problems before going live with customers. The team would, for example, time each... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

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

01 Jun 2017
News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

changes we’ve seen with the consumer internet sector are now beginning to happen in other industries. If you look at hardware, rapid prototyping has really revolutionized the way hardware startups are built. The burgeoning space sector,... View Details

Keywords: April White

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