App - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2022
News

Book Smart

demand was super clear.” Within months, Worldreader’s app launched, offering access to thousands of books from around the world, allowing students not only to read for pleasure but also to explore categories like human health and career... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

product, which is the module that our customers build into their apps to be able to connect to the bank accounts of their millions of users. So far, it’s been exciting to learn the nuances of developing a product in a B2B2C environment... View Details

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

continues the importance of apps that can be accessed directly. The existence of the iPad extends and accelerates the trend toward digital content such as e-books and downloadable newspapers and magazines. While uncertainty continues to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

and policy change block his fledgling startup, solo entrepreneur Alex Holt evaluates his options. Should he double-down with a major investment in new servers, rewriting his app from scratch, and charging users for a service that he had... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

David A. Frankel

Buzzfeed, Makerbot and Coupang, which is South Korea’s equivalent of Amazon and Fedex rolled into one, according to Frankel. Among the bigger investments were Seatgeek, a mobile app for selling event tickets that is disrupting giants like... View Details

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

bookstore owners are increasingly seeing their competition not as Barnes & Noble, but as Netflix and other entertainment apps that tie people to their couches. “Retailers who succeed are able to create a unique experience that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

28 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

months of runway remaining, Behrens Wu must decide where to direct the company’s limited resources. Should Shippo stay focused on the app while raising the next round of funding, pivot to an API-focused strategy, or pursue both products?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

it this way, privacy has been losing ground rapidly with the ascendancy of big data and the Internet of things. The retreat of privacy has been aided by personal use of networking apps like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, search devices... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

Tools “The good news is that small businesses are resilient. Many of them are already using apps driven by AI and algorithms to pivot their business models,” Mills adds. In her book, she coined the term “small business utopia” to describe... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

feels compelled to share every sordid moment of your life online, yet are also aware that most job recruiters check candidates’ social media channels during the hiring process? Then maybe you rely on apps like Snapchat and Instagram... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

are relevant for a large subset of those jobs. It's not just those who can actually code—building mobile apps and websites—who are in great demand, but also those who are comfortable manipulating technology. Just as nurses and health... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

05 Oct 2016
Blog Post

4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS

Tim Chaves (MBA 2015) is the founder of ZipBooks, a free accounting app that helps small business owners get paid faster. Tim founded and sold two small businesses before coming to HBS, where he made the decision to dive into the... View Details

Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

International. News Wall Street Journal Bloomberg.com
Financial Times New York Times
Washington Post Individual accounts available that also include mobile app compatibility. More details here. The Information Includes... View Details

07 Nov 2014
News

The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

responsive on mobile and will soon launch a mobile app on iPhone. Noting the passionate following of our original video series, “How She Did It,” as well as the user engagement on our curated videos, we will also be further focusing on... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

side, of space. If we want to do more in space, bringing down costs is a great start. “Figuring out what the killer app is in space is not the kind of thing that one company, or certainly a government, is going to do.” The next era of... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

very simple: Every one of us picks up the phone every few [00:06:00] minutes in anticipation of that next new message, or tap onto that app to essentially find out, hey, did I miss something? And in reality, you know, you don’t really... View Details

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

architecture. They were locked into their old architecture as competitors like Apple built a device plus a third party app model that brought a much broader and appealing range of capabilities to users. By the time BlackBerry started... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

that enable consumers to self-monitor exercise levels, sleep patterns, and blood pressure have sold briskly. Despite Google Health’s failed effort to facilitate patients’ collecting their medical records electronically in one place, there were around 40,000 health... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

Web

Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

other programs to transcribe audio. Additional free speech to text apps include: Google Gboard Just Press Record Speechnotes Transcribe Windows 10 Speech recognition The Dragon series by Nuance : software providing audio to text services.... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Case Study: Sweat the Technique

their apps (minimizing Nix’s customer acquisition costs), and then used and repurposed by vast communities of fitness consumers in novel ways that only escalate the value to them and to Nix. Yes, Nix still needs the physical product, but... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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