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- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
clip, then a contract designer may be prudent while you iterate on your MVP. You may pay a little more per hour for these contractors, but that far outweighs over hiring and paying a full-time salary early on. 4. Time delay + J-curve Just...
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- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
our radar. Second, it was a forcing mechanism for us to rapidly iterate on our go-to-market narrative, and clearly communicate both the opportunity and distill the value of our technology to an audience from an array of backgrounds. What...
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of...
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- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
market need.” There were differences in how companies handled their founding stories, though. Virtually any startup goes through one or several iterations before hitting on the right product and the right target customer. The more...
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
an increase of more than 20 percent compared with fiscal 2022. Executive Education also delivered custom programs to more than 4,500 participants, onboarding 23 new clients across a diverse mix of industries. Internationally, the group delivered full View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
the Internet, can go through an iterative process much more quickly and cheaply than was true in the past. So, how do you encourage customer-driven innovation and capture some of that value? First, consider the question of intellectual...
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
easily keep the cost of iteration low. When enabling technologies help keep the cost of iteration low, we don't need to worry as much about getting it right the first time. Instead, we can try things, learn...
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
From Das’s Desk
lessons learned. Many alumni noted in the survey that they found these sessions helpful because they consider their fellow alumni trusted advisors both professionally and personally. Based on your feedback and the survey, for the upcoming Reunion Weekend this June we...
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Das Narayandas
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
next months, we refined the idea and worked towards a prototype by continuing to talk with medical professionals throughout Boston. We also met with engineers at MIT to improve the technical aspects, students at the Harvard Design School to View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
but all businesses have to have empathy for the customer. Empathy is the best leading indicator of success for a business. When I consider the startups that pitch to GV, I look for the ones that have true empathy for their customers, because I think they’ll listen and...
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April White
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
a promise to myself to commit these two years to experimenting, learning, and iterating to the right startup idea. It’s been a wild ride since then, but one of the most fulfilling parts of my HBS experience. What is the problem that you...
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Launch Lab/Capstone 2 - Course Catalog
with respect to three areas of knowledge: Design Knowledge: The use of human-centered design methods to understand users, identify solutions to their needs, and gather feedback via rapid, iterative prototyping. Technical Knowledge: The...
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Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
tools to drive shared value in practice. Understanding the Purpose of Measurement The Shared Value Measurement Process Shared value measurement requires an iterative process that is integrated with business strategy, not a one-time or...
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- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
context. The ability to have the mindset and operational muscle memory to go through the OODA loop multiple times in an encounter helped Boyd's disciples win consistently and closed the gap until resources arrived. This is the operational, View Details
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
freelance designers submit potential logos, and companies pay a few hundred dollars for the logo they like best. Throughout the process, designers receive one- to five-star ratings from the clients on their work, and iterate on their...
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Erin Peterson
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
Olivier Dumon by Robert S. Benchley "I believe in an evidence-based, data-driven, iterative product-development process." How many of us can reduce the central truths we've learned in business to a single sentence? Olivier Dumon (MBA...
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- 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...
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- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest Over Colgate?
human time or human understanding of complexity, I can identify the things that GPT suggests actually matter, and then iterate on those with real data and real consumers to get human-based results,” she says. Developing the right prompt...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
incentives to encourage rapid experimentation. Consider using small development groups that contain key people (designers, test engineers, manufacturing engineers) with all the knowledge required to iterate rapidly. Determine what...
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by Stefan Thomke
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Launch Lab/Thesis 1 - Course Catalog
product/service venture, and thereby to demonstrate mastery with respect to three areas of knowledge: Design Knowledge: The use of human-centered design methods to understand users, identify solutions to their needs, and gather feedback via rapid, View Details