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- 01 Jun 2016
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Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
integrative, stage of a relationship, Austin notes, "resources from both organizations have been mobilized and meshed to create a new set of services, activities, and resources unique to that collaboration." His example is the 1995 pilot... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
mobile application. We currently offer destination information on Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, and London on the mobile app and hope to cover as many as 150 places. Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Jana Care —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
HBS Grads Make Their Mark in India
health-care information to Indian consumers via text messaging and mobile Web browsing. India has a low Internet penetration but 450 million cell phone users, making mobile handsets the best device for... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
University. That was as far as the idea went, until recently. Partnering with an MIT expert on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics, Alden has a new company, Alden DAVe Systems (with “DAVe” an acronym for Dual-mode Autonomous Vehicle),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Girls for Humanity (FGFH), the mission of which was to provide humanitarian services and funding to communities in need across the world. Hanazawa mobilized the global fashion industry by soliciting excess merchandise from luxury brands... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
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 on our curated videos, we will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
respondents said they viewed online content on multiple devices. "Research indicates that smart phones and mobiles are where it's at in emerging markets," says Leach. "But we found that many people still use computers that rely on Wi-Fi.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Business as a Force for Good in Society
Better Future Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research The Potential of Business to Improve Lives View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
Technology is changing everything about how we shop. Two decades ago when we needed something, we went to the store. That’s what we’d done for hundreds of years. Then we began to turn to the computer. Now shopping means reaching for our phones; today, over half of all... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
things.” ClimaCell isn’t stopping with gathering data. The company has a team of atmospheric scientists in Boulder, Colorado, building proprietary weather models, allowing them to create historic, real-time, short-term, and long-term forecasts. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
including our $1 any size soft drink promotion. Our future also requires that we keep challenging ourselves to improve and innovate and we are excited about the way we are elevating the customer experience through more modern restaurants, delivery and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
cents a day, are then enrolled in the program, and cash transfers are delivered via mobile payment. Each recipient receives about $1,000—the equivalent of a household’s annual budget. This fiscal year GiveDirectly expects to transfer $43... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
car and truck company, but also a technology company.” Accordingly, the teams focused on out-of-the-box approaches to enhancing the way passengers experience mobile communications and computing. Unlike most field study projects, this one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
new feelings. I have tons of Hello Kitty—T-shirts, shoes, stationery, a PC, a mobile phone. I use a Hello Kitty credit card and checkbook. My favorite Sanrio characters are Mr. Men and Little Miss—I grew up with them in Sydney, Australia.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
notion that while the games are free to everyone, we have a ‘freemium’ model, where some users choose to pay for special items or quick level-ups in the game,” says Kafie. “Our users can pay using their credit card, mobile phone, and even... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Whitman explains Quibi’s great gambit: by doing for short-form mobile media what HBO did for premium television, the company (whose name is shorthand for “quick bites”) will revolutionize the way we watch video on our phones. The idea was... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
established to mobilize the American workforce quarantined at home, and began offering their MadeByUS kits that include everything—from assembly instructions to precut gown panels—for anyone with a sewing machine and knowledge of fabric... View Details