mobile technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

Tell us about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Prior to HBS, I spent six years in the oil and gas industry working primarily on taking technologies in the energy space from the lab to the field. Being exposed to... View Details

10 Jan 2017
News

Street Smarts

“Today, the car is a mobile computing platform,” says Mistele. “We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services around it.” For example, INRIX uses machine learning to provide customized daily routing advice... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Venture: A Welcome Assist

Illustration: Chris Gash Illustration: Chris Gash The internet grew up inordinately fast. It all happened so quickly, in fact, that it blew right by the accessibility guidelines that would’ve made digital tools available to everyone, regardless of their age or ability,... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; photo courtesy Michael Bervell; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Zach Komes Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results HBS Impact Investing Fund Makes First Investments Devon Sanford Tim Cho Zach Komes 07... View Details

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

life-threatening experiences when they were blindsided by weather during their military service. Those shared experiences led them to found ClimaCell in 2015 to provide more accurate and reliable forecasts both to businesses and to developing countries that don’t have... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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Elisabeth Ndour

HBS. In Nairobi, she’ll work with a startup that allows SMBs to accept mobile payments. “It’s a life-changing technology for people without computers or bank accounts,” Elisabeth explains. “And it represents... View Details

30 Nov 2021
Interview

TikTok: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Brian Kenny

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around the simple idea of helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. By May 2020, TikTok operated in 155 countries and had roughly 1 billion monthly active users, placing... View Details

Keywords: Apps; Artificial Intelligence; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media

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January 1999
Case

Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

The last in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the various outcomes of the partnership called Project Explore, from the perspective of Bell Atlantic managers and... View Details

Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Leadership Development; Outcome or Result; Horizontal Integration; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Education; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey

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01 Jun 2001
News

Q&A: Donna Dubinsky

technology from a competitor? We felt the Palm OS was the best platform for a handheld. OK, we were biased on this subject! We knew that we could get a product to market much faster by licensing the operating system rather than creating... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; PalmPilot; Apple; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2011
News

Just Doing His Job

broadcast and satellite technology “had a clear influence on the man who went on to make billions in Malaysia’s mobile phone, satellite, and pay TV business,” the Morning Herald wrote. Backed by a fortune... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

and medium businesses draw meaningful, actionable insights from across all of their disparate data sources. Jana Care Sidhant Jena, MBA 2011 Jana Care is a health technology startup that aims at democratizing chronic care management in... View Details

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1.2 MBA Honor Code | MBA

commitment to the learning model. Engaging in behaviors or activities that detract from the in-class learning environment, including the use of technology in non-class-enhancing ways. Unless authorized by a faculty member, View Details

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What We Learned in Three Charts: Innovation, Tariffs, and Gig Work | Working Knowledge

things we learned, visualized in charts. 1. Global mobile inventors spread innovation Research by Prithwiraj Choudhury illustrates how ideas can follow inventors and evolve. The paper found that inventors who develop a new View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Jun 2011
News

Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation

car and truck company, but also a technology company.” Accordingly, the teams focused on out-of-the-box approaches to enhancing the way passengers experience mobile communications and computing. Unlike most... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53636 Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Using the farm tractor as a case study, I show that lags in View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

provides clear indicators of both what types of merchants are likeliest to benefit and which factors that influence profits should receive the most management attention. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/513059-PDF-ENG EverTrue: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Raghu Yarlagadda

image and video processing. For four years, he worked at Motorola Mobility among the engineers who developed high-definition television technology. In the third year of his employment, he contributed to one of the first wireless set-top... View Details

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