Mobile Internet Usage - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

period—and so did in-store sales as well as sales of jigsaw puzzles and walkie-talkies. It’s not clear what we learn from panic buying. So let’s look at what was happening online before the virus of 2020. Ecommerce has been part of the View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

Web

HBSGrid Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

Usage and Policies HBSGrid Terms of Service 5ms To obtain access to Harvard Business School’s technology resources through Research Computing Services (RCS), you must acknowledge this agreement either electronically, on paper, or via... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Hunting Red Balloons

In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet... View Details

Keywords: contests; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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... View Details

Keywords: child care; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Nov 2016
Blog Post

CPD Global Market Update: Singapore

markets. The region is poised to have a massive increase in mobile and internet spending and, it’s believed that Amazon is ready to launch in Singapore too. Grab, founded by two HBS alumni, is also competing... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Fast Answer

India - Industry specific research

href="http://www.iamai.in/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">Internet & Mobile Association of India Trade association site includes research reports on internet related topics such as... View Details

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

of the common contracts people sign with themselves each year. If you have resolved to eat healthier, try ordering your groceries a week in advance of delivery. Internet delivery services make it all too easy to give into food cravings... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1998
News

Plunging Into the Net

latest technological buzz, what some people are calling a revolution, centers on the Internet. Even neo-Luddites must admit that this network of wires that links computers all around the globe is changing the world. Still, given that the View Details

Profile

Paul Luning

No stranger to entrepreneurship, Paul Luning launched one Internet startup in high school and helped grow two more while at Rice: an online marketing firm and a wireless hardware company. But a semester in Australia broadened Paul's... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

line managers and CEOs will find compelling. The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing Our Lives, a completely new edition of the best-selling book by journalist Frances Cairncross of the Economist, explains how the world is changing with the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology

applications over the internet as opposed to local computers or physical data centers. As part of HBS IT’s Strategic Plan, a Cloud Program has been established to help enhance agility, experimentation, and rapid evolution of cloud View Details

Profile

Pasha Nahass

Amazon. “In 2010, mobile was not as ubiquitous as it is today. It was a new challenge: How do we apply all the things Amazon is good at to a tiny screen on a device that may have poor Internet connectivity?”... View Details

Keywords: Tech

Portrait Project

Smriti Jayaraman

diminishes both the carbon footprint and utility bill of an American household, or a rural Internet kiosk that provides market prices to Brazilian fisherman by day and disease diagnoses by night. If technology can be an enabler for good,... View Details

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

expanded its offering to cover a broad spectrum of Internet and mobile security products. In 2012 the company launched its own Internet search engine called So.com. By August... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2010 (Revised March 2013)
Case

foursquare

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Chen

Co-founders of foursquare are deciding how to respond to competitive threats and scale up the organization. Foursquare was a location-based online service that allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competitive Advantage; Web Services Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

generational thing, that as our Internet generation ages into mid-life, "we will slow down." Will we? For example, will we be able to suppress annoyance when someone writes us a letter, to which one must reply in kind, rather... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

widening the generational gap in using cryptocurrency, buying and storing art and wine with nonfungible tokens, trading new kinds of securities on new internet investment sites offering new features, and thinking up new applications for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 1999 (Revised January 2000)
Technical Note

Last Mile of Broadband Access, The: Technical Note

By: Jay O. Light, Lynda M. Applegate and Daniel J. Green

Provides an overview of broadband access technology. Includes technical overviews of cable, DSL, fixed wireless, and satellite systems, and suggests the technical suitability of each to accommodate broadband applications. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology