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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others—the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams submitted plans. Last year, a record-breaking 110 teams vied for a total of $170,000 in...
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- 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...
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by Jim Heskett
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
by the Department of Defense. In his chapter on the history of the Internet, Shane Greenstein examines the role of the federal government and the iterative process that DARPA engaged in to develop what would become the Internet. So it's...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
dysfunction had been tracked. Key factors for integrating outcomes measurement into the clinical workflow include ongoing communication between cross-functional teams composed of clinicians and technical professionals, an iterative design...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
assessment from the solving phase. In most cases, innovators engage simultaneously in definition/solution/assessment stages and iteratively define the problem and its solution. Open innovation breaks this vertical integration and forces...
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- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
select set of the "top people." Planning for One Strategy is iterative and collaborative, defining a framework for executing on the strategic priorities, while refining the strategy and aligning the organization around its...
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- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
content. And thus was born the wildly successful iTunes platform." The innovation lessons, which required many iterations and innovations in how the material is taught, magically seem to click in just the right way, Thomke says. "We...
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- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the plans over many iterations of the course, they are a good reflection of the kinds of debates that nearly any group, reading that text, might have. For example, it would be very hard to read Sophocles' play Antigone and not discuss the...
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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
change the structure, processes, and behavior of an organization while at the same time developing commitment that ensures execution. SFP is also a research method. By applying SFP iteratively to new and challenging situations,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
is a critical first step in assembling the capabilities required to succeed. We would, in Pandesic's instance, want a CEO who in the past had launched a venture thinking he or she had the right strategy, realized it wasn't working, and then View Details
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by Michael Raynor
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
As the Wild West of the new communications frontier shakes out, Baldwin predicts that companies will use many iterations to combine producer- and user-created elements in their business strategies in an effort to find the right balance....
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by Michael Blanding
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had been taste-tested live, with good results, and Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, had provided Post with much of the funding to make the burgers. The next step was to form an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
learned, take action based upon these lessons, then adapt and iterate and react to what they observed." Enter FIELD. First proposed at the end of 2010, the idea was so enthusiastically embraced by incoming Dean Nitin Nohria that he...
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- 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
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by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
increasing costs for Yatooq. Alwaalan reflected on the decisions she made to date, wondering if the revenue decline could have been avoided. She also contemplated the path forward, specifically whether she should iterate on her...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product development pipelines and reshape their relationships with customers. Drawing on academic research and interviews with practitioners, this note...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
Act, which was passed by Congress in 2010, created a mechanism to deal with many of them, alongside Basel III the most recent iteration in global banking regulations. Important details of both are still being hammered out. The most...
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- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
direction, Radiometer began an intensive program of process improvements using the Danaher Business System (DBS), an iterative tool system and company culture that sought to continuously improve the company's growth and lean and...
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Sean Silverthorne