Mobile - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop

affordable in Africa through microfinance and mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region: Africa Vention: A platform that allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

Career Coach

Mark Hardie

earlier led new product innovation at Agero Inc., an automotive industry service provider. At Ipsos, Mark drove smartphone-based service innovation in the Futures Group. For six years at Nokia Inc., Mr. Hardie designed innovative mobile... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Telecommunications

10 Apr 2019
News

Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry

A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

26 Mar 2018
News

Funding Climate Change Solutions

In this video, Ousseynou Nakoulima (MBA 2009), director of the Green Climate Fund, discusses why his organization employs a holistic strategy to its work in developing countries. “The Green Climate Fund is a fund that has been set up by the international community to... View Details

23 Sep 2010
News

How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?

telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Career Coach

Marc Herson

Marc (INSEAD '01) has extensive global experience as a venture capitalist, media executive, entrepreneur and lawyer, working in the U.S., Europe, and Africa. His most recent experience is at 2go Interactive, a start-up mobile tech company... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Telecommunications

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

Cases & Course MaterialsChina Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy Harvard Business School Case 309-034 China Mobile was the world's leading mobile communications service provider with over 400 million... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Security & Privacy | Information Technology

a Duo push request. Mobile Payment Alert Not all fraud alerts are legitimate. Cybercriminals can impersonate mobile payment companies and send fake fraud alerts to attempt to scam you. Phishing Phishing is... View Details

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

run on Microsoft’s Windows platform, was the dominant web browser in the 1990s until squashed by Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. In February 2015 there was the launch of Meerkat, an app that lets users broadcast live streaming video through their View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

10 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/11/is-it-fair-to-blame-fair-value-accounting-for-the-financial-crisis/ar/1 Cases & Course MaterialsDigital Chocolate Linda A. Hill and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 410-049 Trip Hawkins founded Digital... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Eugene G. Grace

Grace grew Bethlehem Steel rapidly during World War I, increasing production from 1.1 million net tons of steel in 1915 to over 3.3 million tons in 1919. Growing the company through various acquisitions, Grace’s Bethlehem Steel operated nine major steel plants by 1929.... View Details

Keywords: Metals

08 Mar 2018
News

How HBS Gives Back

at the Mobile Food Bank. I have had nothing but positive experiences from my time volunteering. I’ve left each session happy and wanting to do more. If one hour a month can generate that much positivity, imagine what we could do if we all... View Details

09 Oct 2024
Podcast

Worker welfare: From theory to tangible good

Good Business Lab cofounder Anant Nyshadham on demonstrating the ROI of better worker conditions and getting from academic exercise to large-scale implementation. View Details

Web

2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

University of Massachusetts Boston Mobilizing Privileged Allies to Address Inequalities Rae Johnson , Pacifica Graduate Institute The Embodiment of Courage Mario Small , Harvard University On Power, Ambiguity, and Mentoring in the... View Details

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

conversation where you articulate your precise location and type of emergency. Recent investigations by NBC News and USA Today found that 60% of mobile 911 calls can’t be accurately located. A 2013 study cited by the FCC estimates that... 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

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be performed from... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Jan 2016
News

The Three HBS Alumni “Defining the 2016 Campaign”

article: Stephanie Hannon (MBA 2004), CTO for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and former product director at Google; Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO of Facebook, who is “leveraging her influence with Lean In followers to mobilize female... View Details

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

looks to build a mobile technology product development team by executing an "acquisition-hire" (i.e., "acqui-hire") to acquire New York City-based start-up Stamped, a mobile application... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

cover in one of the chapters in the book. A network approach requires leaders to focus not only on management challenges and opportunities at an organizational level, but also more broadly on how to mobilize resources both within and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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