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- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
introduce users to different learning activities. Cook drew the characters and came up with concepts, and Jan guided content development to meet the needs of classroom teachers. Fast forward to 2003, and the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
our content to that market?” is a question that also drives off-mainstream sports—for example, hockey in Austria. We are currently on the way to implementing a new kind of live streaming channel which features only the most relevant... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
users. Furthermore, they suggest that users may become so enamored of the technology that their contact with friends and family is diminished. On a societal level, note Bradley and Bane, "broadband may prove to be a leveler, providing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
There is also a network effect at work in that everyone on a project needs to use the tool for it to generate the most value to any one user or to the system. I would study what Slack did and get the tool... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
teams think about their target audience, core user benefits, and which features to build to deliver real value to users—to work that looks more like content programming, where we inform what View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate visions of the future, sibling... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
interviewer in 2013. It was a quantifiable argument: A major National Endowment for the Arts survey released that year reported that only about 20 percent of Americans visit museums annually, but 71 percent engaged with the arts through electronic media. Belsky’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Design Moguls
The HBS Design Fair 2000, held December 4 in Kresge Hall, showcased final projects for the MBA elective course, Managing Product Development, taught by Associate Professor Stefan Thomke. Second-year students on the Capstone Snowboard Products team proposed two products... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
that teach different aspects of financial literacy. Celebrity Calamity focuses on the ins and outs of credit card debt; Farm Blitz: teaches users about debt, savings, and compound interest; Bite Club, billed as “the world’s first-ever... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
Illustration by Chris Gash When Rob Saliterman (MBA 2011) started selling online political ads at Google, they were almost all destined for people already seeking political content, placed either on specific networks or in response to View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
(SEAS), and Harvard Medical School (HMS) will generate a range of output that will influence academia and practice. The labs will also help establish Harvard as a center for groundbreaking research on digital-, data-, and design-related... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
innovation was the introduction of user fees, an idea sparked in part by a spate of climbing mishaps on Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park that had sent rescue and recovery costs soaring. (Recalls Cohen: “Hard-core climbers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
oil-rich state, for example, the financial impact (positive or negative) of a bill affecting the state's petroleum producers and related companies could be inferred by following the votes of the state's lawmakers. The politicians, after all, are the people most... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
Google philanthropy and loan repayments by students. (As an example, a student might contribute flat monthly payments of $100 so long as their annual income exceeds a threshold amount of $40,000.) Chertavian’s Year Up, along with Merit America, will train students with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
say they want meaning and purpose in their jobs and a work-life balance. They want happiness. + ONLINE web-only content How do these ideas of time, money, and happiness play out in interpersonal relationships? AW: Much of the research on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation of standards for broadband cellular networks. And somewhere between a pandemic and a mountain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint