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Tips for Working Remotely | Information Technology
protect yourself when using hotel or airport Wi-Fi. Review our Best Practices for Traveling Abroad document, created in conjunction with other higher education institutes. Protect your Mobile Devices Keep the OS and apps on your device... View Details
- 28 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Duolingo
is a popular language learning app and website that now serves over 500 million learners worldwide. Learners can access 30+ languages through bite-sized engaging lessons on a gamified platform making learning fun and accessible. The... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
preregister patients? Or maybe something fashion-related? How long does it take people to get dressed in the morning? Is choosing what to wear stressful? Is an interactive app the answer? That fashion app... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective
and the MBA so brilliant. Here, we will recall some of the many notable memories from our Peek Weekend experience. But the best way to truly understand the impact of Peek is to apply to the program and try it for yourself. #1 – The Peek Weekend View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Bluetooth in Android and Apple smartphones to determine proximity between people, and thus assess their potential exposure to the coronavirus. A random ID attached to a user’s phone number generates temporary, encrypted IDs. When users’ phones are within 30 feet of one... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world
homophily—the “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies of like-minded people? Only by understanding the relative impacts of these factors can companies develop effective marketing strategies. Studying the adoption of a mobile app in Japan, Gupta... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. And why would Apple ever allow a Kindle app in its App Store in the first place? "We all know historically Apple often says no to View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
new apps and other products, offering feedback to help entrepreneurs refine their ideas. However, there’s a caveat to this feedback: 90 percent of users on Product Hunt are men, according to a recent working paper by a trio of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Jenny Huang | MBA
PraisePop, an iOS app that lets users add to an anonymous live, feed of positivity within their unique communities. We entered an international competition and then launched at our high school, and it was incredibly heartwarming to see... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
content on their respective screens. Launched in 2016 as a story app for young children, Caribu has since expanded to offer a variety of activities for kids up to age 13. The platform was named one of TIME magazine’s best inventions of... View Details
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Palis Pisuttisarun | MBA
and business: I came to realize the power of tech and entrepreneurship when I founded my first startup. A few years ago, I built a social peer-counseling app to connect minority youth with mental health support. The nuanced process of... View Details
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Angel Onuoha | MBA
experience at the intersection of technology and business: This past year I took a gap year from Harvard to work on a startup, Zuvy, which is a freelancer app for college students. Having this entrepreneurial experience, I became... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Gotta Dance
lyrics, soaring harmonies, and finely tuned choreography. More importantly, it had an average view time of over two minutes, far beyond the usual five-second skip time allowed on YouTube. More recently, a project for e.l.f. Cosmetics on the video-sharing View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Ann Chao
"more of an educational bent," the company has designs to have "greater impact on musicians in all styles of music." Sonation just launched an app for Star Wars fans, Millennium Trumpet, where users can play that... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Wagr
Illustration by Drue Wagner Wagr [Wa-jr] Mario Malave (MBA 2020), CEO Eliana Eskinazi (MBA 2020), CPO Concept: Wagr is a social sports-betting app that allows people to bet with others in their community instead of betting against the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2016
- News
Let’s Talk Dating
25 are dating. We are just not talking about it,” Kapoor told The Economic Times. Addressing Tinder’s reputation as a “hookup” app for casual sex, Kapoor noted that she and her husband (whom she met through a blog she kept as an... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
people worldwide who suffer from this often-fatal disease. With a goal of reversing “diabesity”—the twin epidemic of diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world—Jana Care is building biosensors and software apps that can... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53418 Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne