Filter Results
:
(112)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(595)
- People (1)
- News (112)
- Research (393)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (128)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(595)
- People (1)
- News (112)
- Research (393)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (128)
Sort by
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
second round of funding, with the goal of expanding into the Mexican market before moving on to Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, and Chile. In its first year, through word of mouth alone, users completed 170,000 tasks—work that in some...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Former Dean Kim Clark established the Global Initiative in 1996 to encourage deeper understanding of and engagement with innovative management practices around the world. Nearly three decades later, more than half of HBS cases published...
View Details
Keywords:
Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
defense sector in the mid-2010s. Ryan had been persuaded to join the endeavor after hearing the enthusiasm of the scores of potential users Brandon interviewed prior to launch. But the pair did not initially encounter the same positive...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
hovering around 5 percent, Thndr’s marketing team launched a campaign highlighting users like Marwa Helali, a single mother from Port Said investing for her 16-year-old son’s education. The number of women using the Thndr app has more...
View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
now there's a tremendous interest in intrapreneurship, because companies have made their cutbacks and realize that they can't 'shrink' to greatness," says Kanter. "If businesses don't innovate they will fall behind in a world of change."...
View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
green pigs. If the ultimate outcome of that frantic gaming also teaches us something (probably not the case with Angry Birds), our brain is likely too engaged in the task of winning to rebel against some higher purpose. Nick Maynard (MBA/MPP ’02) harnesses that power...
View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
potential to create a lasting impact on women, worldwide. As the lead developer at MOGUL, I coded the first version myself, using Ruby on Rails. It has been an incredible journey, to achieve significant user traction upon launch and...
View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
sponsored is used. “It's using this technology to deepen the connection between the person who made the purchase and the actual giving that’s happened,” Matthews says. The Plus app will also let users vote to support beneficial social...
View Details
Keywords:
Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has...
View Details
Keywords:
Dan Morrell
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
well the challenges that lay ahead. DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read how the president and CEO of Trusted Media Brands is spearheading digital innovation at her company in the 3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987). DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read...
View Details
Keywords:
Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
market more than superficially. There’s a tension between the way product designers want people to behave and the way that people actually behave. Users will usually take the shortcut to whatever solution they want. The best entrepreneurs...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s...
View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Communities, and Open Innovation edited by Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhani (MIT Press) The last two decades have witnessed the growth of new models of managing innovation that emphasize View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble
Already a well-used venue, the Harvard Innovation Lab has been the site for a full schedule of panels, workshops, and seminars since its opening last fall. In early November, the i-lab hosted its first Start-Up Weekend Scramble, an event...
View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
midwest and central us HBS Club of Chicago Mickey Freeman, MBA 1993 CEO Bradley Greenwald, MBA 1990 Chairman and founder Education Funding Partners public school funding new england HBS Association of Boston Stephen Kahn, MBA 1978 Sr. VP and CFO TrophoMax seed View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
Issue Focus: Innovation In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, we turned to five HBS faculty...
View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
teams think about their target audience, core user benefits, and which features to build to deliver real value to users—to work that looks more like content programming, where we inform what content we should bring to the platform; to...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
and worst part about being a PM? PR: The best part is launching, without a doubt. There is nothing as cool as that first time your product is in users’ hands. But it can also be the worst time, because there are many things that you didn’t realize your View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna