Mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Apr 2022
News

Funding His Purpose

investments to both nonprofit and for-profit social impact companies. It also offers philanthropic fund management, and it partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide additional services to clients. By 2019, SITAWI had... View Details

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

change, we need to get to net zero emissions by 2050. Achieving this goal is possible, but it will require nothing less than a national and international mobilization to support economy-wide decarbonization across agriculture, buildings,... View Details

January 2004
Case

Nokia and MIT's Project Oxygen (Abridged)

By: David B. Yoffie and Rebecca Henderson

Looks at how Nokia should respond to a future vision of computing and communications that was developed at MIT's Project Oxygen. View Details

Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry

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12 Mar 2025
Podcast

Cal Newport on slow productivity and next-wave AI

Joe Fuller welcomes back the Georgetown computer scientist and leading observer of knowledge work, who reprises his argument against busyness as the default mode. Also, cracking the productivity code, parsing AI's potential, and better work-life balance. View Details

12 Feb 2022
News

Industrialist Rahul Bajaj Dies at 83

with convenient mobility solutions,” Pawan Munjal, chairman and CEO of Hero MotoCorp, a Bajaj competitor, told Forbes. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that Bajaj “will be remembered for his noteworthy contributions to the world... View Details

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

06 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method

Chad Losee and he was able to deconstruct any myths we had related to the admissions process. HBS even developed a mobile app dedicated to Peek. This helped us access program information and built community among the students. Through the... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships

Michailidis says. “I studied with incredibly competent people and two of them became my business partners. We founded Pushpins while we were still at HBS.” The Pushpins application enables users to scan items in grocery stores and receive instant savings coupons on... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

01 Oct 2013
News

Banking on Africa's Future

bank accounts are held in Equity Bank. It has the largest ATM network in the country and the best mobile banking service, reaching a large and geographically dispersed customer base. We believe Equity is an example of an investment that... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

along with classmate Lucas Klein and Jason Green, a 2002 graduate of Penn's Wharton School of Business. The runner-up in the social enterprise track was The Unison Project, a group designed to mobilize the talents of artists and music... View Details

Fast Answer

FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya

X". Start typing consumer lifestyles and the name of your GEO country (or Mobile and the name of the country) to locate. EMIS Useful for: emerging market info, including company info, news and niche industry reports. ... View Details

07 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis

pioneers of environmental sustainability from the private and NGO sectors who have mobilized their organizations in response to the worsening impacts of climate change: Helmy Abouleish is CEO of the SEKEM Initiative in Egypt. Since... View Details

01 Mar 2025
News

Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope

Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details

Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.

Firestone inaugurated the company’s Liberian manufacturing operations and developed and expanded the company’s auto supply and service stores. Firestone manufactured over 50% of all mobile anti-aircraft gun units during World War II and... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

the constraints and opportunities of their representation structure are reflected in the micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

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

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

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