wearable tech - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Mar 2015
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Wearable Tech Enables New Era of Employee Monitoring

15 Oct 2014
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Wearable tech lets boss track your work, rest and play

05 Oct 2021
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Launch Signals

Sara de Zárraga (left) and Quinn Fitzgerald When they met at HBS, Quinn Fitzgerald and Sara de Zárraga (both MBA 2017) shared their experiences as survivors of assault—and realized they wanted to create a tool to prevent future occurrences of violence against women.... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; startup; safety; wearable tech; women; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

05 Feb 2015
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Tech Meets Fashion

07 Feb 2015
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The tech invasion of fashion? The flirting has begun.

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How to Make Remote Monitoring Tech Part of Everyday Health Care

By: Samantha F. Sanders, Ariel Dora Stern and William J. Gordon

Remote patient monitoring is a subset of telehealth that involves the collection, transmission, evaluation, and communication of patient health data from electronic devices. These devices include wearable sensors, implanted equipment, and handheld instruments. During... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Technology Adoption

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20 Aug 2024
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Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

The following is an excerpt that was adapted and lightly edited from chapter nine of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win, written by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao and published August 20, 2024. In... View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

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Profiles - MBA

an authentic desire to build the world they want to live in. ” Tech areas of interest: AI/ML, Design, Human Computer Interaction, Sustainability, Privacy, Security & Trust Formative experience at the intersection of technology and... View Details

27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

distribution strategy for Glass, a wearable computer that projected information on a display viewable with an upward glance. Options, which were not mutually exclusive, included 1) continuing to sell Glass directly through online... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2016
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HBS Startup Is Developing Tech-Enabled Jewelry to Stop Rapists

at the Harvard i-lab. Working with survivors of sexual assault and with a team of MIT engineers, the cofounders of Flare Jewelry are developing wearable devices that include an alarm, text messaging to alert the wearer’s phone contacts of... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2014
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Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future

Ivy Ross uses the word “magic” more than once as she describes the changes that Google Glass could bring to the shopping experience. The woman in charge of Glass’s consumer launch is brainstorming potential uses for the $1,500 wearable... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; technology

01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

of commercial tech monetization, which includes wearable products in the health care category. The opportunity appealed to me in part because it uses so much of what I learned this year, including term... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

29 Jun 2022
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Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

dialysis device, a femtech device using genomics to enable women’s care, a biosensing wearable to prevent dehydration, and an oxygen sensor for personalized oncology care. They have collectively raised more than $485M in funding and an... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard

stores in the fall of 2021 and through an ecommerce channel in early 2022. The switch has better aligned the company with the wave of interest in sports tech and connected health, Cass notes, and distanced it from the more saturated View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

co-working/accelerator space Grand Central Tech in Manhattan. Three teams made the final cut to advance to the Global Rounds. George Hessler (MBA 1985) was named the regional winner with Magma Trading, “a trading platform that allows... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Not limited to college graduates or people in business, this book reveals practices relevant to anyone starting their career in an organization, whether it be nonprofit, professional, or governmental. From Startup to Exit: An Insider’s Guide to Launching and Scaling... View Details

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Russell J Wilcox January 2025 J 3.0 Launch Lab/Capstone 2 Technology & Operations Management Alan MacCormack , Russell J Wilcox Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Launching Tech Ventures Entrepreneurial Management Christina Wallace Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0... View Details

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