Skip to content
Logo.
The HBS Digital Initiative reshapes digital to create a world where technology advances and serves humanity. The DI manages this forum to highlight perspectives from the HBS student community.
Want to learn more about technology and organizations? digital.hbs.edu
Close and dismiss. Expand.
Technology and Operations Management

Technology and Operations Management

MBA Student Perspectives

  • Assignments
Search for:
  • Log In
  • Log In

    [wppb-login display="true" lostpassword_url="https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-rctom/lostpassword" redirect_url="https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-rctom/category/uncategorized/start-up/"]

start-up

Optimizing athletic performance and recovery using machine learning at WHOOP

Posted on November 14, 2018 by eagerbeaver20

WHOOP, a start-up founded out of the Harvard iLab, uses machine learning to improve athletic performance and possibly the lives of diabetes patients.

3D-Printing: A Nuclear weapon for startups willing to disrupt the vending machine business.

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Arnold White

3D-Printing represents a great opportunity for vending machine startups to innovate through an easier iteration process, enabling the whole industry to reinvent the customer experience.

Can Opti Optimize Stormwater Management?

Posted on November 4, 2016 by FD

OptiRTC is a technology company working to provide innovative solutions for stormwater management to mitigate the impact of increasing numbers of severe weather events.

bio-bean: can cappuccinos challenge fossil fuels?

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Lizzie G

This post explores the potential challenges facing bio-bean, a UK-based startup looking to exploit the opportunity climate change presents for alternative energy companies to prosper.

INSTACART: Fresh Food Fast

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Caitlin Carmichael

Crowdsourcing grocery delivery to get it to your door fast

PillPack: the new kid on the block in the world of pharmacy

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Sojung

PillPack is a Somerville, MA-based an independent online pharmacy start-up founded in February 2014, with $62.5M raised to date (valuation unknown). In less than two years, PillPack has distributed over a million individual dose packets, acquired licenses to serve patients […]

Slacking Off to Get More Done

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Damjan

More and more companies are using Slack as their internal collaboration tool of choice. Why has this chat app found so much success in cracking the enterprise market?

ClassPass: Serving a Two-Sided Marketplace with Class(Pass)

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Jean

ClassPass (‘CP’) is a two-sided marketplace that connects the end consumer, a fitness class attendee, with classes at boutique fitness studios.

ClassPass: Bringing Boutique Fitness to the Average Yuppie

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Caitlin E Johnson

How one platform is creating value by effectively connecting fitness demand with fragmented supply.

Rocket Internet – Sprawling digital business empire

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Katarina

Start-up factory that turned the process of identifying, rolling out and scaling new businesses into an assembly line.

Posts pagination

1 2 3 »
[contact-form-7 title="newsletter-subscribe-component" html_class="di-c-input-group di-c-input-group--large"]
A project of:
At:
  • Assignments
  • Terms and Conditions / Privacy Policy
  • Community Guidelines
  • Contact Us