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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
locations, academics, venture funds, and other cities. The strategic sprint focused on 1) improved use of technology to achieve New York's policy goals, 2) growing the urban tech sector (market size, job... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
remarks Kourouma, a native of Ivory Coast. Inspired to solve this problem, in 2007 he launched Afric Xpress, whose mobile platform allows cellphone users—a population that the World Bank recently estimated as totaling 650 million View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
Edited by Julia Hanna Courtesy Michael Aft Courtesy Snigdha Sur Courtesy Michael Aft Courtesy Snigdha Sur Michael Aft (MBA 2019) and Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) would be the first to acknowledge that launching a digital media startup out of... View Details
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Jeremy Sasson
would take the advice. Meanwhile, he applied his computer-science education to a number of technology roles. At Appconomy, Jeremy tackled mobile applications. The experience introduced him to the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
model? We make money in two ways. First, we expose our characters in all appropriate forms of mass media, such as motion pictures, television, the Internet, publishing, and wireless applications. In... View Details
- Web
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
assessors to conduct face-to-face interviews with low-income customers living in rural, hard-to-reach areas. “Today, we can use mobile technology to conduct short phone interviews or SMS (texting) surveys.”... View Details
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Arthur Rock
late 1950s, Rock has been carefully scrutinizing pitches of another kind—start-up bids by young technology companies— and when he goes for one of these, he rarely misses.” Among the iconic companies Rock... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and how can that apply to the United States? One reason is the sophistication of finance. The other is the growth of three specific technologies. Sophisticated financial tracking and smart View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
example would be laptop computers that vary in configuration, with one having a CD-ROM and another having a wireless modem. Entrees in a restaurant would be another example. In these cases, choosing one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
lifestyle branding. The more mobile phones, streaming media, and portable gaming evolve, the more time consumers are spending wearing headphones. Think about what headphones looked like in 2003 when the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
Information technology was one. Part of that was upgrading and establishing HBS as a leader in the use of technology for education. Now we're poised to go further, using View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
Some of the best connections were serendipitous, sitting down at a lunch bench next to solar engineers who taught me about the necessity of tracking panels for Middle East projects or investors in South Asian two and three wheeler View Details
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
front of the pump instead of paying in slower, more conventional ways, did 2.7 million people sign up for the program and increase their loyalty to Mobil by one extra visit to the pump per month? The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
Tell us about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Prior to HBS, I spent six years in the oil and gas industry working primarily on taking technologies... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Lessons from HBS While Thinking Bigger and Bolder Michael Johnson 01 Oct 2021 Michael Johnson is the President & CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County, based in Mad... Mobilizing Private Sector Action For... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
different you are and how loved you are. We found industries where there are already clear winners that have pulled away from their competitors and gained the love of millennial consumers. (Online search,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
three major cities. The first six years of my life were in Calcutta. Then we moved to Delhi, where I finished my schooling at St. Columba’s. Afterward I enrolled at IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
Bond stayed on. The work was all-encompassing as the company emerged into a new life. The once-struggling wireless company with spotty coverage and no iPhones launched the “un-carrier” marketing strategy,... View Details