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Mark your calendars! HBS Executive Education reunions are back on campus!
select your sessions and evening dinner events Check the reunions website for updates Download the HBS Mobile App to access updates and news all year round From your first cold call to your last reunion,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
PensionBee in 2014 to address this lack of continuity and introduce transparency to an industry that’s known to be convoluted and confusing. The company is able to track down a customer’s pension plans and consolidate them into one, which... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53418 Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Creighton Taylor
2 experience in Accra, Ghana. There, Creighton’s team worked with the country’s largest entertainment company, Multimedia, to develop a mobile app for its media site. “I was both new to the 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... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. They first designed a mobile site called Easy Food Stamps that streamlined SNAP enrollment, then developed the Fresh EBT app that allowed users to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Technology Development (B) Kerr, William R., and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-123 Brent Grinna has one customer signed up for his alumni-networking mobile app and is now trying to choose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
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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... View Details
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Paris Wallace
monitors and tracks their monthly cycle and suggests the optimum time for baby-making. Its pregnancy app guides women to healthier pregnancies. In its two years of existence, this Boston-based health technology startup has helped more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
All six of these alumni change agents identified a problem and set out to fix it. Their examples illuminate a path for others to follow. What’s That Funny Graphic? You’ll notice something new in this issue — small, strange-looking square graphics called QR (Quick... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of a typical industry, or at least... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running, the View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town hall at a time—or even just one... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
for iPhone and Android. The timing was great as mobile apps were starting to take off. However, my Bessemer team and I became fixated on the pricing model and passed on the Series-A round. Just a few years... View Details