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- 12 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS
got picked up in The New York Times, Business Insider, LifeHacker and many other publications. Somehow Apple found out about it, and showcased Ummo in the App Store as The Top 3 "Apps We Love" in... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
codes readable by smartphone cameras. The information encoded in the graphic will take your smartphone browser to a designated Web address. To access the bar-code information, first download free QR scanner software from your smartphone provider’s View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
Editor’s note: You can now download the Bulletin on your smartphone, too. As with the tablet edition, just go to your preferred app store and search for “HBS Alumni Bulletin.” Credit Due Re: Creating Change... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? lays out the thesis that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing wants and needs of a... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
process within apps with a single touch and without needing to repeatedly enter credit card information, the billing address, or shipping address. On October 20, 2014, U.S. consumers could start using Apple Pay in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices in physical stores where most retail transactions occur. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously collected from the websites and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
joining HBS. Cal Brooks (MBA 2022, Section A), Summer Internship: Commercialization Strategy Intern at Malta Malta is building a new type of electro-thermal energy storage system that can collect and store energy from any source (i.e.... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin for its decentralization, intentionally relying on no single server or set of servers to store transactions and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
with our younger talent about ideas they are proposing for our company’s strategic direction? Personally, should I be making use of one or more of these apps that I don’t understand? Twenty-five years ago, there was a sense at General... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
gonna brainstorm, or I'm just gonna write, or I'm just gonna think about just one problem. So I put on the noise canceling headphones, set a timer, close the email app and just am able to focus in—just on that one thing. Lindsay Ronga:... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
the App Store and its ecosystem of services. Eight of the 10 most valuable companies in the world are currently pursuing platform strategies, Wu says. Ultimately, platform strategies lead to the greatest... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
stores in the fall of 2021 and through an ecommerce channel in early 2022. The switch has better aligned the company with the wave of interest in sports tech and connected health, Cass notes, and distanced it from the more saturated... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
the federal government or from Wal-Mart. The solution comes from lots of us deciding that we are going to do what it takes to solve this problem.” In April of this year, Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) launched Joro—an app that works like a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
million well-off shoppers and 463 grocery stores in key U.S. markets. Whole Foods could absorb Amazon’s technology and process expertise to modernize and reduce its operating costs, which were among the highest in the industry. For... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
So you need some people treating the currency as a store of value as well. And, incidentally, these sorts of dynamics don’t just play out with general-use cryptocurrencies. They also show up in individual tokens, like NFT projects. If a... View Details