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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
of PowerInbox, says it’s too soon to call it quits on email—far from it, in fact. PowerInbox, which manages targeted ads within subscriber-based newsletters for publishers like Crain Communications and the Seattle Times, has enjoyed 7,500... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
optimize performance and overall health. The device has become a fixture on the PGA Tour, and golfer Nick Watney credits his strap with first alerting him that he might have coronavirus by detecting an increase in his respiratory rate—and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
supporters to donate and volunteer to one where they can persuade undecided voters. At Snapchat, the mobile app known for its ephemeral messaging, prospective targets are likely to be much younger than those who can be reached elsewhere... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running, the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in the face of complex challenges
ultimately an investment in a better world,” says Hess, “one led by alumni who build more effective, sustainable institutions and organizations and inspire hope and opportunity in communities around the world.” Hess understands the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Dallas Children’s Museum. One of her pressing details involves predicting the future of handheld technology at the museum. “Right now we need to figure out which handheld device people will own when the museum opens in three years,” says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
five years, I believe you will see a somewhat slimmer device with a rich color display and integrated wireless communications for both voice and data. You will use this product as an organizer and for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
suspect it was transporting contraband. He grabbed a CSECO Fiberscope—a fiber-optic inspection device that resembles a plumber's snake—and fed it into the gas tank. He peered into the scope's eyepiece. "Generally, if you interdict a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
research and development that go into developing tricks. He personally creates technology and builds devices in his own machine shop to achieve illusions and make magic. As Alyssa Martin (MBA ’09) explained later, “He told us that he... View Details
- 19 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 company launched—they were boring.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
mobile consultation service for entrepreneurs called MBAs Across America. “We felt a responsibility to use our resources for a nobler purpose,” says Gerald. The MBA students met with American business owners, advised them on everything... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
of consulting firm Ethical Ventures, recently spoke to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about the Business of Racial Equity pledge developed to mobilize the business community to address inequality and injustice. Lewin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA, smart mobile phone, and digital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
height of the COVID-19 pandemic, he and some of his fellow medical students and doctors founded GOTVax, a mobile clinic that vaccinated about 8,000 people in Black and brown communities in the greater Boston... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
wayfinding app, and your digital and mobile alerts. Fans need to know there's contact tracing and there's a way for them to know if someone was infected with COVID and they need to figure out who they interacted with, there's a lot of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
process. In most work settings, I’m the person with the data-driven point of view. I used to get annoyed if people came in with personal stories and emotional stuff. But what mobilized people was the emotion. There are so many stats I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
Technology is changing everything about how we shop. Two decades ago when we needed something, we went to the store. That’s what we’d done for hundreds of years. Then we began to turn to the computer. Now shopping means reaching for our phones; today, over half of all... View Details