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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
low-cost care. But in the case of iterative care, a patient's condition is unknown, and tremendous resources may be required for diagnosis and treatment, often with uncertain outcomes. Bohmer shows that to reduce costs and manage care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
States but around the world that hamper rapid iteration and experimentation in the product development process. This, in turn, stifles innovation, scares off private investors and creates an industry-regulatory culture that has grown to... View Details
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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog
problem through a process of iterative research, including customer and expert interviews. By application, we will admit a balanced mix of students who have a focus area they’d like to work on and students who don’t have one but wish to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
grown in different directions. Palm had produced several great iterations of handhelds, and we had focused on building a great smartphone, so we were quite complementary," says Dubinsky, who negotiated the merger in 2003 and remains on... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
interface with an existing business and see the impact of my recommendations then further iterate in real-time. Jay Kim: Being able to apply the newly learned data science skills such as coding in python, using Jupyter notebooks, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 14 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Making the MBA Degree More Accessible
education. Naming and acknowledging the impact of these lived experiences explicitly can be incredibly affirming—and allows people to see that there are members of our community who’ve had similar pathways, journeys, and experiences.” This past summer saw the second... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
(centered) around rapid iteration and customer insight." One way to address the challenge, according to Jeffrey Vetter, is to "separate out forward thinking groups from the day to day business." Dave Schnedler suggested... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
charges a fixed fee for a “managed service” product with which she can run the algorithm in-house while co-designing and iterating with brands. To drive revenue in the short term, Shelly is creating her own zero waste products as well as... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
faster—for two reasons. First, a company can bypass the expensive and error-prone effort to understand customer needs in detail. Second, the trial-and-error cycles that inevitably occur during product development can progress much more quickly because the View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 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
Case Study: Sound Check
improved long-term retention rates. In the early days, it’s best to optimize for product feedback. If it’s easier to sell to smaller customers (with more volume), stick with this segment and treat the feedback as gold. Rapidly iterate... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
one emerging economy. Based on an exploratory field study of medical device development projects in India, we observe the frequent, iterative testing of prototypes in clinical settings and investigate the related learning process. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
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
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
Wagaroo. The initial iteration of Wagaroo was based entirely on trying to develop an effective matching algorithm. Prospective owners filled out surveys, indicating preferences about factors such as size, breed, energy level, age, and... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
diversity of international experience in such cases could be a boon to students in solving such problems. With such experiments, Narayanan and his colleagues are embracing the dynamic quality of the course in their design—using their own View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
traditional theories of leader selection describe organizations as picking leaders with particular characteristics, LFT sees organizations as having a filtration process that evaluates a pool of candidates and iteratively removes them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne