ipi course overview note
This is a PDF document titled "IPI course overview note.pdf" created in September 2025. It contains a detailed course overview for "Ideation & Prototyping for Innovation" (IPI), a Harvard Business School field course co-prepared by Professors Tom Eisenmann and Shai Bernstein. The content outlines the course objectives, frameworks (including Double Diamond Design, Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Research-Driven Ideation, and Think Bigger), structure, assignments, mentoring, and use of AI tools. The course is designed to guide student teams through problem identification, validation, solution ideation, prototyping, and pitching, emphasizing learning-by-doing and iterative design processes.
Questions this document answers
It is the institution hosting the course 'Ideation & Prototyping for Innovation' and integrating various product development frameworks.
The course aims to equip students with skills in problem identification, validation, solution ideation, rapid prototyping, testing, MVP development, and pitching.
It is used as the scaffolding for the problem and solution phases of the course, emphasizing divergent and convergent thinking and iteration.
Design Thinking emphasizes user desirability, problem reframing, and iterative testing of solutions.
Lean Startup supports efficient learning and iteration to find a viable, desirable market fit through MVPs.