N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business

Main Authors: Garvin, David. A, Sesia, Aldo
Format: Article PeerReviewed Book Thesis
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2016
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Online Access: http://kc.umn.ac.id/6778/1/N12%20Technology.pdf
http://kc.umn.ac.id/6778/
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  • The potential, they believed, was enormous—and the challenge equally large. But if CEO Brad Berkson (HBS MBA ’91) and COO Trip Flavin (HBS MBA ’94) got it right, N12 Technologies, their Cambridge, Massachusetts startup, could well upend the entire carbon fiber composites industry. N12’s value proposition was that its vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), branded as NanoStitch, dramatically strengthened the interlaminar region of carbon fiber composites, leading to large improvements in cost, shear resistance, and fatigue life.