App - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

experience. Sloan: Just the workload. It's hard to dedicate 20-25 hours a week. What was the most rewarding thing about it? Samuel: Building things! You build several apps/programs yourself in the course of the class. Also learning the "language" of CS. I... View Details

17 Apr 2014
News

York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

Busbud was cofounded and is run by LP Maurice (MBA 2008), representing the Canadian region of HBS Clubs. Busbud is a mobile app that connects travelers to bus operators, allowing users to search, compare, and book intercity bus tickets... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

profitability,” in placing particular emphasis on how ventures scale by achieving not just product-market fit, but profit -market fit. Classes cover a diverse array of tech and tech-enabled businesses, including e-commerce, ed-tech, SaaS, HR-tech, mobile View Details

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

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In the News - Entrepreneurship

Call The Nuqul Group Works to Preserve Its Founder’s Legacy Re: Christina R Wing 09 Apr 2025 VN Express Vietnamese Student Wins $75,000 Harvard Startup Prize for AI Medical Translation App 31 Mar 2025 Business Insider MBAs Are Launching... View Details

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Europe - Global Activities 2021

study, there are no right answers to the questions posed in “Just Arrived” about the business models and approaches each app uses to address the challenge of integrating refugees into the job market, but there are insights that students... View Details

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A Eureka Moment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Eureka Moment As a student at HBS, Nicole Bucala (MBA 2015) could not stop thinking about a much-discussed but hard-to-address challenge: the need to bolster American STEM education. That interest inspired a startup—Eureka Ed [eurekaedapps.com]—that is building a... View Details

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Rachel Silverstein

to wear a lot of different hats – when you're lean, it's all hands on deck. I got involved in opening a new market launching a digital app launching a meal plan subscription product wholesale testing many different operational and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Retail/Hospitality; CPG

19 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Reflections From My First Month at HBS

within a few minutes chatting with section-mates in passing, I knew that most of us were feeling the same way. In fact, within the first few days I had more messenger apps than I’ve ever had in my life. Business school students are very... 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 among the students. Through the... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Putting the Game Within Reach

its inaugural season with eight teams that will play hour-long, 7-on-7 arena-style football games broadcasted on Twitch, a live-streaming platform used mainly by gamers. Play calling can be executed live during the game on either an app... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Case Study: The Credit Bureau

technology for B2B2C, but I suspect he will have to do that anyway. An app would be important for keeping in touch with customers and dealing with any problems in both business models. Mobley could think about partnering with building... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

in the future. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-048 BYJU's The Learning App BYJU’S The Learning App (BYJU’s) is India’s largest K-12... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
News

'Rooted' In Innovation

include a mechanical engineering degree from MIT and patented novel technologies for self-driving vehicles. “But I don’t want to just make an app that delivers Instacart items five seconds sooner. My career vision is to tackle difficult... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2018
News

Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

profile for Republic-listed companies different, but the platform is also selling products and services less likely to resonate with what Hofmann calls the “traditional white-male VC.” She holds up the example of the black-owned startup theCut, an View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

innovate." Data.gov allows people to be watchdogs as well as innovators, he continued. One helpful innovation marries government data about recalls of baby products with the nifty Red Laser app that is available for the iPhone:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

18 Oct 2016
News

China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

constantly seeing at what point in the mediation app it is working or not working,” Breyer said. “It starts with great content and with people who deeply care about meditation. Marrying that with the data analytics makes the meditation... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

grappling with three questions. First, should GPS create its own mobile app for credit card customers or leverage the bank’s already successful mobile banking app? Second, if a separate app was developed,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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