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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
providers, ranging from contractors to dentists to mechanics. More than 2 million households nationwide belong to Angie’s List. The company offers a call-in center for person-to-person help with research and hiring needs. Angie’s List launched years before online... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
my intuition. Chad Waite (MBA 1983) OVP Venture Partners Gut Check In 2012, just one year into my VC career at Bessemer, I met a sharp and energetic founder named Nat Friedman. He told me about his company, Xamarin, which helped developers write View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile
mother would describe me..." or "Worst fad I participated in..." Potential matches can then leave comments on their answers, and let the sharing begin. In the article, McLeod also offers some suggestions on making the most of app... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
app allows the user to participate in random drugs tests using a thumbprint, or breath or saliva tests via video. “No more degrading urine tests,” Gastfriend says. Patients are rewarded for meeting goals and staying on the program through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
Very consumer focused,” says Motte-Munoz. “Say you need a driver’s license; the app will tell you where all the DMV offices are and tell you their rating on a corruption basis.” “People know there’s corruption,” Motte-Munoz adds. “We’re... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
wave in April. —Dr. Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169) chairman, 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Using an app called Pune Platform for Covid Resonse (PPCR), businesses and community organizations... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
support from the alumni network. "All we usually read about is some whiz kid in California whose new app has made him millions," notes Fred Braun (MBA 1959), president of Workman Fund in Leavenworth, Kansas. "Perhaps the report the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
at the i-lab are open to students from across Harvard as well as from Tufts and MIT. Course projects have ranged widely, but most solved problems through the innovative use of technology. One team, for example, developed an app that... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
constantly seeing at what point in the mediation app it is working or not working,” Breyer said. “It starts with great content and with people who deeply care about meditation. Marrying that with the data analytics makes the meditation... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
Busbud was cofounded and is run by LP Maurice (MBA 2008), representing the Canadian region of HBS Clubs. Busbud is a mobile app that connects travelers to bus operators, allowing users to search, compare, and book intercity bus tickets... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
architecture. They were locked into their old architecture as competitors like Apple built a device plus a third party app model that brought a much broader and appealing range of capabilities to users. By the time BlackBerry started... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
We Have Liftoff
phone, see your bill, and pay in seconds with SplitNGo. No app required. When your workday ends: When it finally gets slow at our pilot restaurant, and we get to head home after busing tables and talking to customers all night. Your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
mobile-app taxi-hailer that allows riders to find and summon the nearest available cab using GPS. There's also an added security benefit for riders, says Schroeder. "They've come up with a very simple app that helps you find something you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
magazine, to no avail. Knowing that kids do this stuff, I called over my 12-year-old niece Julia, who told me, “I bet there’s an app for that.” She downloaded the free “Scanner” app and faster than you can... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
companies to turn their sensors into weather data and created an app that can send alerts to people in flood-prone areas. Last year, ClimaCell predicted major floods in India—in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
audience who would be voting for the $2,000 “crowd favorite” prize at the School’s annual New Venture Competition Finale. “We’re building a telemedicine app for Africa . Half of all outpatient visits can be conducted over a mobile... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
launch of Risher’s nonprofit, Worldreader, an organization that uses technology to reach children all over the world through its foundational app. Within months, Worldreader’s app launched, offering access to thousands of books from... View Details