Coooooooooool February 2, 2007
Posted by jefft in Change, Hubs, Technology.add a comment
I mentioned in class the role of the elevator & air conditioner in making the real-world shopping hub (malls, department stores) a ubiquitous part of our retail environment. Helpful resources on this include The Harvard Design Cool Guide to Shopping and this fun history article: Keeping Things Cool: Air Conditioning in the Modern World.
Can you think of any technological changes happening now that provide new business opportunities?
(I’d put my copy of the Harvard book on reserve, but a burst pipe turned mine into a mildewed mess. #$@?! technology!)
Hub health February 2, 2007
Posted by jefft in Hubs, News.add a comment
Great class, everyone! I really enjoyed the discussion.
Toward the end, you might recall, we introduced the concept of a hub, which connects many products in a single enterprise. Check out everything at Google, for example, which is the product of Google’s own innovation and buyouts of smaller firms.
The latest issue of Business Week has another cool example of a hub, one that also has a social enterprise dimension: Richard Branson’s Virgin Health Bank, which “will bank your child’s umbilical cord blood for use in case of illness, or to donate to others.”
