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- 19 Jan 2016
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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...
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Dan Morrell
- 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....
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- 07 Nov 2014
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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...
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Day in IFC: Marta Milkowska (HKS), United Kingdom - MBA
Here we are testing a prototype of a saving’s mobile app leveraging social norms and gamification to increase savings. My teammates Kim and Sana drafting the first prototype of our savings View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and mobile View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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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...
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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...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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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
- 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...
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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...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
told Bulletin readers that they were puzzling over how to expand the customer base of Saga, a mobile app that they cofounded to help families share stories in an audio format. They were wavering between...
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
As such, we are building an educational mobile app that uses innovations in children's media to teach STEM skills through funny, interactive, animated, short movies. In this way, we seek to address the two...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Snapping Up Voters
supporters to donate and volunteer to one where they can persuade undecided voters. At Snapchat, the mobile app known for its ephemeral messaging, prospective targets are likely to be much younger than those...
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Sasha Issenberg
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10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged...
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- 20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves
industry changed around the ideas we had. Today, the car is a mobile computing platform and the average luxury car has more than 200 sensors collecting information. We pull information from various sensors...
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- 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...
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Lee R. Raymond
Raymond presided over the rapid growth of Exxon during the nineties. He orchestrated the successful merger of Exxon with Mobil Corporation and extracted over $7 billion of savings from the combined entity. The $81 billion merger was the...
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Utilities & Energy
- 01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond
management tools for the city. He stayed on as an advisor to Menino, rebuilding the city’s 24-hour hotline and exploring how mobile apps could be utilized to make reporting issues more convenient for...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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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...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story
journey became the genesis of Saga. Cofounded with Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Saga is a social mobile app that helps families save and share stories in an audio format. Launched in mid-2020, the company...
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