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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
all the way to the factory floor. The initial implementation at the Electronics Works Amberg became widely cited as the prototype for Industrie 4.0. The central question of the case is the importance of vertical integration to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
time to increase customer satisfaction. New research suggests there's a better approach: showing customers a representation of the effort, whether literal or not, being expended on their behalf while they wait. (The prototypical example...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
Meg Whitman, which led to a global micro-projects strategy. With eBay, Hill says, the authors wanted to show how Whitman's willingness to experiment with rapid prototyping "broke rules to get something done," and modeled such behavior for...
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by Kim Girard
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
the constraints of its and the company's mission and values. Leonard and Swap identify several ways to facilitate this task. Working with a physical prototype of a new product, they suggest, provides a tangible focus. In addition,...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy...
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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
find that the data he needs simply does not exist. The case follows him and his team as they take on challenges as the start-up evolves and develops. Topics include acquiring data, web-based prototyping to understand customer preferences,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
Not so long ago, multinational firms were associated with a specific national identity. Caterpillar was a prototypical U.S. company. Honda was a classic Japanese company. The location of headquarters of these and other firms served as...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
their weekly Starbucks allowance to fund you. It lowers the barrier for entry for innovators to go from prototype to small-scale production. The second thing it does: It changes the selection process. Before, we relied on the judgment of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
says. Building a prototype of any one of these new nuclear designs may take 5 to 10 years and cost upwards of $1 billion, which suggests that they're in danger of falling into the financing "valley of death," the stage between researching...
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- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
drive." CEO Lew Platt visited the team frequently to provide support and cut through any roadblocks. Platt even carried a Kittyhawk prototype around in his pocket to show off. These engineers were required to sign a creed that...
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- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
potential to supercharge innovation, because we can prototype more ideas and share them with each other much more rapidly. That's on the supply side of the economy. On the demand or marketing side, the new technology may allow us to match...
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
products accessible, installing checkout counters, and expanding product selection by tapping into national branding. Saunders, in essence, built the prototype of today's supermarket long before it became commonplace. At the other end of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the evolution of the diversified business groups organized around British trading companies from the late eighteenth century until today, this chapter...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
in the market research labs don't necessarily see," she says. "Montague wanted a real bicycle that would fold—something to use for serious cycling that was sturdier than available folding models. He designed and built a View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
interface (the basis of Apple Computer's and Microsoft's Windows software), the "mouse," and the laser printer were all originally developed at PARC. The culmination of much of PARC's innovation was its development of the Alto, a very early personal computer....
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
prototype Web site had already been developed.... [A]n early review had described the Web site as "way cool." Participating in the meeting were two other MBA candidates. Prior to jointly founding IWA, the three had worked in...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
and fundamental to Kodak’s identity. In January 2016, Clarke and his executive team traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where the company unveiled a prototype of its new Super 8 camera—an analog...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Cases & Course MaterialsCalera Corporation Joseph B. Lassiter, Thomas Steenburgh, and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 810-030 Brent Constantz, founder, CEO, and president of Calera Corporation, felt a surge of optimism as he gazed at the recently...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
locate reference groups (ingroups and societal prototype groups) in the most positive cluster (high-competence/high-warmth), unlike individualist data. This demonstrates outgroup derogation without obvious reference-group favoritism. SCM...
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Martha Lagace