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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
company’s engineers integrated a sensor into the bearings used on light trucks that would not only serve the friction reduction purpose of the bearing, but also be the sensor for the antilock braking system....
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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Meridith Unger (MBA 2010), founder of Nix, a startup that is developing a single-use, wearable sensor to determine a person’s real-time hydration status, says that this stems directly from the risky nature of venture capital. (Unger...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard option Peter Barrett: Remote...
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by Danielle Kost
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
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...
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- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
use people analytics to improve how people work. These badges, and the multiple sensors inside of them, allow careful tracking of interactions in the workplace. Ben was kind enough to partner with us to help us measure, carefully and...
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Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
going to the doctor for an annual checkup. It helps you catch things early, before your building ends up in the emergency room, where you’ll spend 10 times as much fixing the problem. With the advent of new sensor technologies, it’s also...
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- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
Certainly things having to do with safety and security. I like to use an example of, we met with a company that makes robots that look like snakes and these snakes have sensors all over them and they send these snakes to try to go into...
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- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
expanding their own data-gathering and crunching capabilities through advancements like sensor networks and sophisticated modeling software. What if cities could make use of all that data to better give residents what they need—for...
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- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
appliances to turn on when rates were at their lowest. Plus smart meters, monitors, and sensors capable of two-way communication would allow for a more efficient reaction time if an outage was detected, rather than relying on field...
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- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
setup is as unobtrusive as sitting in front of a computer monitor. Eye movements are captured by an optical sensor using infrared light reflected off the cornea. When his advisor at Michigan showed him a huge dataset collected from...
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- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
organized. Other facts are generated by so-called digital sensors operating worldwide in industrial equipment, autos, and the like. By linking the sensors, an "industrial Internet" can be created. These trends appear to have "opportunity"...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert...
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April White
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks; a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was founded in 2000 and in early 2004 was looking for a second round of funding. The area had attracted a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
managing demand - using modern sensors and valves, remote measurement, big data optimization algorithms, mobile apps, and other innovations - is a more powerful way to benefit citizens and businesses than just pumping more stuff through...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and unreliable power grids in nations like Liberia and Tanzania. They don’t wait for government to connect the dots. The second and likely more powerful new capability arises from the combined arrival of three technologies all enabled by feature phones and smart...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
designing soft robotic gloves that aid with upper extremity issues. A patient with a spinal cord injury may use the glove to pinch fingers together, making lifting a glass easier. Future work will focus on using sensors that respond to a...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Internet: adding digital sensors to its machines; connecting them to a common, cloud-based software platform; investing in software development capabilities; building advanced analytics capabilities; and embracing crowd-based product...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
science graduate, and the pair immediately began discussing new venture ideas. They entered the startup world with a company to sell a sensor for tennis rackets to help improve performance. But it was classes such as the Founders’...
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- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
Can we use our capabilities in the electronic sensor business to deal with these problems and issues? For example, one of the things they are working on is biosensors that can be attached to the food chain, so that the freshness of food...
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by Sean Silverthorne