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- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
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: Consumer Products
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
with our younger talent about ideas they are proposing for our company’s strategic direction? Personally, should I be making use of one or more of these apps that I don’t understand? Twenty-five years ago, there was a sense at General... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
audience who would be voting for the $2,000 “crowd favorite” prize at the School’s annual New Venture Competition Finale. “We’re building a telemedicine app for Africa . Half of all outpatient visits can be conducted over a View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
for iPhone and Android. The timing was great as mobile apps were starting to take off. However, my Bessemer team and I became fixated on the pricing model and passed on the Series-A round. Just a few years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
told Bulletin readers that they were puzzling over how to expand the customer base of Saga, a mobile app that they cofounded to help families share stories in an audio format. They were wavering between... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method
Chad Losee and he was able to deconstruct any myths we had related to the admissions process. HBS even developed a mobile app dedicated to Peek. This helped us access program information and built community... View Details
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
Shiva Velingker (MBA 2025) Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025) Zelma Garza A mobile app that helps lonely individuals remember they are loved and valued. NetaCarbon Grace Lam (MBA/MPP 2024) Mar Velasco... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
journey became the genesis of Saga. Cofounded with Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Saga is a social mobile app that helps families save and share stories in an audio format. Launched in mid-2020, the company... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
wave in April. —Dr. Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169) chairman, 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Using an app called Pune Platform for Covid Resonse (PPCR), businesses and community organizations... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and mobile View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
industry changed around the ideas we had. Today, the car is a mobile computing platform and the average luxury car has more than 200 sensors collecting information. We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
of the energy company Cinergy, has led the company from the brink of bankruptcy to one of the premier energy companies through selecting a focused strategy, aligning the organization to support it, and mobilizing all the employees to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
documents adopted by companies their compliance leaders admired, such as GE and Microsoft, they saw models that focused on specific steps employees should take when faced with difficult decisions. One result: Those examples inspired Accenture to think outside the box... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
conversation where you articulate your precise location and type of emergency. Recent investigations by NBC News and USA Today found that 60% of mobile 911 calls can’t be accurately located. A 2013 study cited by the FCC estimates that... View Details
- 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... View Details
- Profile
Creighton Taylor
2 experience in Accra, Ghana. There, Creighton’s team worked with the country’s largest entertainment company, Multimedia, to develop a mobile app for its media site. “I was both new to the industry and new... View Details