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phones only for making calls and sending text messages. In 2007 when smartphones arrived on the market, she saw the need to help retailers use this new medium and relaunched her mobile platform for retailers. Before Skava, Sudha worked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
part of the Match Group that also owns Match.com. The app uses geolocation—a tactic popularized by the all-male dating app Grindr, which launched in 2009—to present potential dates who are nearby. And, most influentially, Tinder introduced the “swipe” into the dating... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
worldwide PC market still languished below 5%. Growth in iPod sales was slowing down. iPhone faced increasing competition in the smartphone industry. And would Apple's latest creation, the iPad, take the company to the next level?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon placed big bets on Google’s Android... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
platform, or should the RedBrick platform be launched directly to health insurers, ACOs, or directly to customers? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-052 Supercell Supercell is a young Finnish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
http://hbr.org/product/Whole-Foods--the-Path-to-/an/615019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-001 Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode rather than swipe a credit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Happens Next in Ukraine?” As attack unfolds, escalation, nuclear standoff among Harvard experts’ worst fears Harvard Gazette Wide range of possible targets for Russian cyber strikes, from infrastructure to smartphones Ex-intelligence... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
consumers using smartphones to discover online prices. Our findings provide insights for managers on how and when self-matching can be an effective pricing strategy to embrace. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209036 Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-055 Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
office." Further evidence of Twitter mania in Japan: The country holds the world record for tweets per second—33,388—recorded on New Year's Day 2013. But it's not just Japan at the cutting edge: As the world shifts from PC to mobile, Asia is driving View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
smartphones for them to easily report anomalies or concerns. Reports from the app are embedded in a new real-time crisis management platform used by several Swiss companies, federal authorities, and the Swiss Army. Despite a full array of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
fintechs will take you over." The bankers complained about the difficulty of gaining customers in rural markets with high rates of illiteracy. "I told them those potential customers knew how to use a smartphone better than we do," Shousha... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
worst of times and the best of times. During the "great recession" of 2009, smartphones growth stalled, stalling Qualcomm's revenue, but in 2010 growth surged again and was predicted to continue its upward trajectory in 2011.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
trained in agronomy and business, dispenses advice on everything from best practices to business ethics, while keeping track of growth rates and other performance measures with a smartphone app. This process also de-risks the loans in the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
across ABP Media's channels, Karan Kapur (MBA 2015) provided hundreds and thousands of meals through his international FnB venture K Corp, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) enabled the mission to be displayed in millions of smartphones through... View Details