App - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2011
News

Letters to the Editor

magazine, to no avail. Knowing that kids do this stuff, I called over my 12-year-old niece Julia, who told me, “I bet there’s an app for that.” She downloaded the free “Scanner” app and faster than you can... View Details

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

companies to turn their sensors into weather data and created an app that can send alerts to people in flood-prone areas. Last year, ClimaCell predicted major floods in India—in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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

22 Jun 2023
News

Book Smart

launch of Risher’s nonprofit, Worldreader, an organization that uses technology to reach children all over the world through its foundational app. Within months, Worldreader’s app launched, offering access to thousands of books from... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise

dinner party. Is it work colleagues? Is it college friends? [So] you know what to wear, what to say, what not to say.” “I love the zeitgeist. ...I’m the first one to download the new music on Tuesdays. I’m the first one to download some new crazy 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

Profile

Marques Torbert

Marques, who is considering his own entrepreneurial venture as a career possibility, especially enjoys his FIELD 3 team project, a mobile app that facilitates spontaneous, inexpensive, and casual gift-giving. “It’s great,” Marques says.... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Snapping Up Voters

supporters to donate and volunteer to one where they can persuade undecided voters. At Snapchat, the mobile app known for its ephemeral messaging, prospective targets are likely to be much younger than those who can be reached elsewhere... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

10 Sep 2014
Blog Post

A Summer Reflection

manufactured goods sold in 10 years. The Savings Catcher feature in the app just launched in August, which checks competitor prices of the items on your scanned receipt and gives you a Walmart e-gift card worth the difference if... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

they already knew from a roster of names and photos. Researchers randomly assigned participants to teams and work stations in a large open space and challenged them to create a mobile app for the Indian wedding industry. They tracked... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

map—including apps for donating food waste, sharing photos, sourcing wedding vendors, renting wedding dresses, and making creative wedding registries. Koning’s favorite out-of-the-box idea was an app to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

Perkins and Apple to invest in companies that would develop apps for the iPhone. The result: a critical mass of applications for Apple's App Store, which today boasts some 700,000 iPhone and iPad... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

In the News - Entrepreneurship

for AI Medical Translation App 31 Mar 2025 Business Insider MBAs Are Launching Venture Capital Funds to Back Their Classmates. Now, Harvard Business School Has One, Too. 31 Mar 2025 Harvard Crimson HBS Awards Over $300k to Student and... View Details

Profile

Anthony Tan

for a mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment. The drivers would be supplied with smartphones so they could communicate directly with... View Details

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

ProductivityDecreasing workplace transparency can increase productivity. When Privacy Protection Notices BackfireIt seems counterintuitive, but website privacy protection notices appear to discourage some shoppers from buying. Beware the Lasting Impression of a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2013
Blog Post

3 Projects, 1 Priceless Picture

personal asset in the future. The View from Your Finger Tip: My final project brought me down into the details of the Nike+ Running app with a team of twelve other graduate and undergraduate interns from across the company. Our goal was... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

05 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Reflective Leader

App since we finished the course, offering advice and even planning a reunion in 2019. I was one of the younger participants in the program, so I appreciated learning from more seasoned alumni who provided a preview of things to come as... View Details

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

including Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, saw slower job growth than did smaller entrepreneurial ventures. Sole proprietors and super-small firms enjoyed some of the biggest employment gains: For example, as many as 35,000 full-time equivalent jobs were created around... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

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