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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
Apple's app store (search for HBS Alumni Bulletin). This interactive edition offers readers a multimedia experience, with digital extras that include video of an HBS grad's orchestral training app in action...
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- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
Four years ago, I used Duolingo’s free language learning app to pick up enough German to impress my new girlfriend, who had recently moved to Boston from Munich. I was able to use what I learned on the app...
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Technology
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile
on-again/off-again relationship with the woman who eventually became his wife a few months ago, inspired the development and unique features of Hinge. “My experience with Kate taught me the importance of being vulnerable,” McLeod told...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
Perkins and Apple to invest in companies that would develop apps for the iPhone. The result: a critical mass of applications for Apple's App Store, which today boasts some...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
at the i-lab are open to students from across Harvard as well as from Tufts and MIT. Course projects have ranged widely, but most solved problems through the innovative use of technology. One team, for example, developed an View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-122 Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding a CTO, or outsourcing. He only has a little...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
need not be. There are plenty of job opportunities for international students in the US and abroad, and the Career and Professional Development Office will work closely with you to help you identify various opportunities. In terms of...
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- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
two-clicks, the City might create apps and alerts that let you, say, get that pot-hole filled, pay a parking meter, or move your car on street-cleaning days before it gets towed. Just like Google builds sites that are colorful, easily...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
via the city’s Citizens Connect app were “closed” without a resolution. It is a balancing act between making residents feel their concerns are heard and helping them understand the process the city uses to prioritize snow removal given...
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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, you're part of HBS for Life. We...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
my intuition. Chad Waite (MBA 1983) OVP Venture Partners Gut Check In 2012, just one year into my VC career at Bessemer, I met a sharp and energetic founder named Nat Friedman. He told me about his company, Xamarin, which helped View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
Tim Chaves (MBA 2015) is the founder of ZipBooks, a free accounting app that helps small business owners get paid faster. Tim founded and sold two small businesses before coming to HBS, where he made the decision to dive into the...
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- 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...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
was ripe for innovation.” By graduation, the pair and a third cofounder, Dan Hunter, had launched Yoshi on the streets of Palo Alto. Hunter was the mechanic; he retrofitted his old pickup truck with extra fuel tanks. Alexander was the engineer; he designed a no-frills...
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- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
product, which is the module that our customers build into their apps to be able to connect to the bank accounts of their millions of users. So far, it’s been exciting to learn the nuances of developing a...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DynamiCare developed an app that provides...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
mobile-app taxi-hailer that allows riders to find and summon the nearest available cab using GPS. There's also an added security benefit for riders, says Schroeder. "They've come up with a very simple app that helps you find something you...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Slang.ai can be a big business if they get it right.Two years out of HBS, I cofounded the first company to develop the original automated attendant systems for small businesses and sold them through AT&T (the phone company at the time)....
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- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. It turned out it was the local library—and no one was particularly keen on using it....
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