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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 2018. The View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
my intuition. Chad Waite (MBA 1983) OVP Venture Partners Gut Check In 2012, just one year into my VC career at Bessemer, I met a sharp and energetic founder named Nat Friedman. He told me about his company, Xamarin, which helped developers write View Details
- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
project off the ground, and Ummo turned into something bigger than any of us expected. Our app got picked up in The New York Times, Business Insider, LifeHacker and many other publications. Somehow Apple found out about it, and showcased... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
providers, ranging from contractors to dentists to mechanics. More than 2 million households nationwide belong to Angie’s List. The company offers a call-in center for person-to-person help with research and hiring needs. Angie’s List launched years before online... 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 currently has six full-time employees... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile
mother would describe me..." or "Worst fad I participated in..." Potential matches can then leave comments on their answers, and let the sharing begin. In the article, McLeod also offers some suggestions on making the most of app... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-122 Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding a CTO, or outsourcing. He only has a little over two months before he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Public companies: fast growing | Baker Library
Information > Operating Metrics & Ratios. Under CIQ Operating Metrics and Ratios , select Growth Rates . Add desired growth rate criteria ( e.g., Total Revenues, 1 Yr Growth %). Click View Results . In LSEG Workspace : Type 'screener' into the main search bar to load... View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS
supports my work in tech/startups. For instance, this past year a few sectionmates and I started working on a side project called Ummo, a personalized speech coach. Harvard provided the initial capital to get the project off the ground, and Ummo turned into something... View Details
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Mark your calendars! HBS Executive Education reunions are back on campus!
select your sessions and evening dinner events Check the reunions website for updates Download the HBS Mobile App to access updates and news all year round From your first cold call to your last reunion, you're part of HBS for Life. We... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
process, such as Professor Brian Trelstad, who introduced us to many of his contacts in the impact space and continues to encourage us when we hit roadblocks. humanID is now integrating with our first client, Green Zone, a Yelp-like review View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
two-clicks, the City might create apps and alerts that let you, say, get that pot-hole filled, pay a parking meter, or move your car on street-cleaning days before it gets towed. Just like Google builds sites that are colorful, easily... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Becoming a Consulting Expert
mobile app for your firm without needing to spend hundreds of hours working alongside you - they don’t need to know every single one of your customer’s desires or every single intricacy of your business; they just need to know what... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
earning a $15,000 runner-up prize. Shortly thereafter, the three founded Sonation and renamed the product Cadenza. Chao and her cofounders met with Apple last fall and are focused on developing an iPad and iPhone app for Cadenza, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
the markets get jumpy, as they did in March, Chapman can unlock the app with his fingerprint to see, within seconds, the state of his investments. (He can also avoid the app for months and maintain a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
residents with tangible results: When a BOS:311 app user posts a photo of a downed tree limb, for example, the responding public works team often adds a photo of the clean street as well as the workers. “It closes the loop,” she says,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
Jen Wong (MBA 2004), COO of Reddit (Illustration by John S. Dykes) “I met Steve [Huffman] at SFO, I think at like 6:00 AM. We were sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is,... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
Instead of taking big screens across the country by storm, this summer’s blockbuster has people glued to much smaller ones. Launched at the beginning of July by San Francisco-based software development company Niantic, Inc., Pokémon Go has quickly become one of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DynamiCare developed an app that provides financial rewards via a debit card... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
early-stage company is much more along the lines of “I just don’t know if any of my assumptions are correct.” Use very simple words when describing your company. As an investor, I find myself asking founders all the time, “Are you a website, or are you an app?” “Is it... View Details
Keywords: April White