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Mark your calendars! HBS Executive Education reunions are back on campus!

select your sessions and evening dinner events Check the reunions website for updates Download the HBS Mobile App to access updates and news all year round From your first cold call to your last reunion,... View Details

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53418 Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

Technology Development (B) Kerr, William R., and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-123 Brent Grinna has one customer signed up for his alumni-networking mobile app and is now trying to choose... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running, the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

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Paris Wallace

monitors and tracks their monthly cycle and suggests the optimum time for baby-making. Its pregnancy app guides women to healthier pregnancies. In its two years of existence, this Boston-based health technology startup has helped more... View Details

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

ClimaCell is pushing to get this information into the hands of residents through its data partners and its mobile apps in the hopes of serving much of the developing world. Elkabetz adds that among... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 2010
News

Making a Difference

All six of these alumni change agents identified a problem and set out to fix it. Their examples illuminate a path for others to follow. What’s That Funny Graphic? You’ll notice something new in this issue — small, strange-looking square graphics called QR (Quick... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Dec 2015
News

Snapping Up Voters

supporters to donate and volunteer to one where they can persuade undecided voters. At Snapchat, the mobile app known for its ephemeral messaging, prospective targets are likely to be much younger than those... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

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Anthony Tan

for a mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment. The drivers would be supplied with smartphones so they could... View Details

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MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition - Alumni

Alumni . February 11 May 29 Canvas spring course access ends Download any course content you would like to retain ahead of this date. February 11 May 29 Harvard Library online student resource access ends Learn about accessing Harvard Library resources as an alum .... View Details

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Marques Torbert

Marques, who is considering his own entrepreneurial venture as a career possibility, especially enjoys his FIELD 3 team project, a mobile app that facilitates spontaneous, inexpensive, and casual... View Details

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. They first designed a mobile site called Easy Food Stamps that streamlined SNAP enrollment, then developed the Fresh EBT app that allowed users to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2015
News

Leading Boston and Beyond

management tools for the city. He stayed on as an advisor to Menino, rebuilding the city’s 24-hour hotline and exploring how mobile apps could be utilized to make reporting issues more convenient for... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town hall at a time—or even just one... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Tiffany Pham

responsive on mobile and will soon launch a mobile app on iPhone. Noting the passionate following of our original video series, “How She Did It,” as well as the user engagement... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entertainment / Media; Technology

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.