Mobile and Wireless Technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2021
News

A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

fill the gaps in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). Many stepped in to fight hunger, provide support for health professionals and frontline workers, deploy technology in new ways that... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

what effective green industrial policy might look like as well as pitfalls such as international conflict to help mobilize effective business investments to create and grow markets for low-carbon... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Case Study: A Good Fit

gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Profile

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

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

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Jan 2007
News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

of population." WPP and its clients will also have to adapt to a nonstop succession of technological changes brought about by the Internet, mobile telephony, View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

time to move the statue and move forward.” JUNE 23 Lisa Lewin (MBA 2003), cofounder and managing partner of consulting firm Ethical Ventures, recently spoke to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about the Business of... View Details

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Transportation - Business & Environment

Battery costs for electric vehicles have dropped 85% since 2010. [38] Challenge Globally, transportation is the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions. Reducing GHGs from this sector is difficult because economic growth usually requires increased 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

Profile

Anthony Tan

for a mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment. The drivers would be supplied with smartphones so they could communicate directly with... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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

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

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

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum: Class of 2023 Perspectives 16 Jun 2022 How can I have... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

alone. They’re doing it to make an impact.” And sometimes, they’re doing it because they see an opportunity that their employer doesn’t. Draper followed the development of peer-to-peer file-sharing View Details