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  • 06 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple's future, but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. The company's line of iPod media players, its iTunes online content store and its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

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 residents. In 2010, Osgood and Nigel... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

A Piece of the Action

manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global capital of entrepreneurship,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

delivery of capital. For example, all of the biggest players emerging in the alternative lending space offer online and mobile applications, many of which can be completed in under 30 minutes. These are not just inquiries; these are... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

http://hbr.org/product/Whole-Foods--the-Path-to-/an/615019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-001 Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode rather than swipe a credit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

less than $25,000 a year, this program represents a transformational opportunity to earn a college degree and secure a job with a family-sustaining wage. What is sometimes underestimated is that not only are community colleges obvious engines of economic View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

This Is What I Do

what motivated her to write The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. “I think stories are the best way to reach people you otherwise couldn’t,” she says. “But storytelling is just a start; you then have to mobilize people and support the push for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

“Looking ahead, I aim to mentor and empower minority populations to enter the world of finance and entrepreneurship.” Sabrina Grandhi (MBA 2026)Sabrina is a first-generation Indian American. As a consultant, she was pivotal in starting her firm’s pro bono practice,... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG), gathered his thoughts before a meeting with his top executives and managers for product design and marketing. On the agenda was a discussion of strategic next steps for the group. Hewlett-Packard (HP), a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

event: gaining endorsement of the startup's technology standard, openly developing the startup's technology within the community (but not necessarily gaining endorsement), simply attending physical meetings... View Details
  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as the View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

profitability. In Chapter 6 we describe the work of drug company Cipla in India and telephone company China Mobile working in rural western China to bring affordable drugs, and smart telephone connections, respectively, to hundreds of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

3 leverages proprietary data from a mobile phone application through which residents can submit service requests to Boston government. Users who received photographic evidence that their service requests had been addressed were more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

Source Code

something else—my passion’s in neuroscience and brain theory,” he told her. “The objective was—as soon as he could—to get back to working on the brain, and I had to buy into that to be his CEO,” says Dubinsky. Numenta is the fulfillment of that promise. The company’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery, propelling new civic demands for state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne