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- 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
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
to really pull from my experiences of just tinkering and using anything to create prototypes. I was also really comfortable with the stages of prototyping and understanding that, when you first have a concept, it will eventually develop... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
black box that transforms ideas into actual products and services. "Little bets labs," for example, allow companies large and small to rapidly build and test prototypes in the market using inexpensive web resources. "Find someone with a... View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
New Life for Old Tech: Startup Provides Network Security Solutions for Obsolete Devices
day-to-day trials while staying focused on the bigger picture. She’s learned that each stage of a startup’s life cycle brings unique difficulties. She is currently building and refining a product prototype while launching a test version... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
publication of Competing in the Age of AI, the book Lakhani coauthored with Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration. Salas was eager to be involved in this prototype of the Learning Network, and Lakhani asked... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022
day-to-day operations, including prototyping facilities, and I serve as an optional startup advisor. I found out about the position through an HBS alum, and while I didn’t use any specific tactics to secure the job, the tight-knit MS/MBA... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code 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... View Details
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
prototype PalmPilot, consumers—and investors—were giving up on handheld devices. Just as the pair were running out of options, U.S. Robotics saw their potential and offered to buy Palm and help them deliver their first model. While some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
Unit at HBS Vinluan’s research examines the relationship between the cognitive processes underlying racial categorization and stereotyping, as well as experiences of encountering stereotypes and discrimination. She examines these processes among individuals who are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
was to focus not on the feasibility of the solution but on the attractiveness. With a full portfolio of potential solutions we set back out into the field, creating rudimentary prototypes to elicit reactions directly from refugees and IRC... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code 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... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
themselves as entrepreneurs. “There’s a misunderstanding that you have to be from a certain place, to look a certain way, to have a certain type of background training, to have one type of personality—all these misconceptions about what the View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
the interviewee and the viewer,” says Page. A trip to the Bay Area in April captured the concepting phase, and a second trip to Peru in May, the prototyping phase. On this final trip, the video crew carried only a GoPro and a handheld... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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