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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
Above: At Zubale, Monroy (left) and Campbell connect independent contractors with merchandising tasks. (photo by Rodrigo Ceballos) Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy (both MBA 2018) met on their first day of classes at HBS. Members of... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
increased job churn (which will occur), with no significant gain or loss of jobs. The problem generally is that the benefits of globalization flow largely to investors and consumers while workers bear a disproportionate share of the costs, depending on how... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
explained why he supported higher taxes on higher incomes: "As a country that values fairness, wealthier individuals have traditionally borne a greater share of this [tax] burden than the middle class or those less fortunate [This... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
relationship, whether it’s a provider, a pharmacy, or a patient, involves data, often mobile data on phones.” BlueCross has had to outsource more than 100 of its IT jobs, he adds—not to save money, but because positions can’t be filled... View Details
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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020
that they needed more time to execute on the strategy to better prove the value of its mobile app and ecosystem-driven strategy. The students were concerned that the company would suffer from the aborted plans. Interestingly, about a year... View Details
- Web
Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
were deciding whether to participate in a Series B round for PEGAfrica, which sold solar home systems in Africa via pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing plans that allowed customers to make small payments via mobile money to pay off the solar... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on the visitor’s fledgling online retailing company that had... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
the long term. The class of community papers with which we’re working in Colorado serves ethnic, linguistic, racially [diverse] communities. These are critical civic assets. We’re seeing tons of political money being poured into... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
solutions such as the construction of mobile COVID test units with medical teams, which have so far tested over 60,000 people. The design was donated to 10 hospitals and is now also available for free online. Case 2: Leverage and protect... View Details
Joshua Yguado
Josh Yguado is the CEO and Cofounder of Jam City, one of the most successful mobile entertainment companies in the world with more than a billion game downloads. Founded in 2010, Jam City is an international View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Where did you go after you graduated from HBS? “I spent three and a half years working at Google on mobile advertising and have been at Yahoo, also working on mobile monetization, since October 2013.” What... View Details
Joshua Yguado
Josh Yguado is the CEO and Cofounder of Jam City, one of the most successful mobile entertainment companies in the world with more than a billion game downloads and 20 million monthly users. Founded in 2010, Jam City is an international... View Details
- Web
MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition - Alumni
Help MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition 12ms Class of 2025 Technology Deadlines After graduation, your access to HBS resources will expire or transition. Please review the timeline below, and download any items you would like to retain... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
something that’s still taboo to talk about. People are afraid to talk about it. They don’t want to offend others.” — HBS professor Robin Ely commenting on the reluctance of firms to accept the real business case for diversity in the workplace. (NPR, January 10, 2010)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Accelerating Research in China
(L to R) Ke Wei, Julia Yang, Will Plummer, Jing Hong, James Qin, Grace Ge, and Tim Wang (all MBA 2005) are contributors to the MBA Class of 2005 Fund for China From his perspective as a business leader in Shanghai, William Plummer (MBA... View Details
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In Charts: Like Einstein, Global Inventors Bring Big Ideas Across Borders | Working Knowledge
Strategy and Innovation In Charts: Like Einstein, Global Inventors Bring Big Ideas Across Borders Featuring Prithwiraj Choudhury . By Ana Elena Azpúrua on May 20, 2025 . Mobile "superstar" inventors play a crucial role in spreading... View Details
- Portrait Project
Amy McGowan
doctorate in genetics. Education allowed him to live the American Dream. The stories of my great-great-grandparents and Dad embody America's greatest strength – access to opportunities to improve one's own life. I am concerned that my country's foundation of... View Details
- Profile
Pasha Nahass
Amazon. “In 2010, mobile was not as ubiquitous as it is today. It was a new challenge: How do we apply all the things Amazon is good at to a tiny screen on a device that may have poor Internet connectivity?” The work was rewarding, but... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary software that connected to email... View Details