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  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209036 Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-055 Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2010
  • Case

The iPhone at IVK

By: Richard L. Nolan and Robert D. Austin
The CIO addresses a decision to replace salesmen netbook PC's with iPhones, including converting the company's sales and customer applications to the iPhone platform View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Salesforce Management; Transition; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Change Management
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  • Profile

Marques Torbert

Marques, who is considering his own entrepreneurial venture as a career possibility, especially enjoys his FIELD 3 team project, a mobile app that facilitates spontaneous, inexpensive, and casual gift-giving. “It’s great,” Marques says.... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

unavailable at this time. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412057-PDF-ENG Sephora Direct: Investing in Social Media, Video, and Mobile Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-137... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

experiences, I was exposed to the ways that technology can help people in big and small ways and how companies can powerfully mobilize people and resources. But I also became convinced that technology is no panacea -- particularly when it... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2017
  • News

Growing from Within

including our $1 any size soft drink promotion. Our future also requires that we keep challenging ourselves to improve and innovate and we are excited about the way we are elevating the customer experience through more modern restaurants, delivery and View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

cents a day, are then enrolled in the program, and cash transfers are delivered via mobile payment. Each recipient receives about $1,000—the equivalent of a household’s annual budget. This fiscal year GiveDirectly expects to transfer $43... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

do to make prevention of a potential disaster a priority in the face of competing priorities, and to mobilize a response in the face of concerted opposition for special interests. Far too often, we only address problems after the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2019
  • Blog Post

In the Business of Flexibility

level of talent within their budget. The firm is simultaneously mobilizing a part of the workforce—those with a need or a desire for flexible arrangements due to childcare responsibilities or other factors—that might otherwise be left on... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States.... 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
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)

with that.” Home: West Sussex, England. “As close to Africa as I can get in an English environment. It’s an overgrown farmhouse with horses and rabbits and dogs and many children.” On safari: “I was in one of our mobile camps in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 13 Sep 2019
  • News

Hollywood Ending

Whitman explains Quibi’s great gambit: by doing for short-form mobile media what HBO did for premium television, the company (whose name is shorthand for “quick bites”) will revolutionize the way we watch video on our phones. The idea was... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo
  • February 1991 (Revised February 1992)
  • Case

Appex Corp.

By: Nitin Nohria
1990 Business Week named Appex Corp. the fastest growing high-technology company in the United States. Appex provided management information systems and intercarrier network services to cellular telephone companies. During its rapid growth, the company went through... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Performance Productivity; Problems and Challenges; Management Practices and Processes; Business Divisions; Information Management; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and mobile apps that reps can view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2016
  • News

Smart Moves

industry changed around the ideas we had. Today, the car is a mobile computing platform and the average luxury car has more than 200 sensors collecting information. We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • Interview

TikTok: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Brian Kenny
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around the simple idea of helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. By May 2020, TikTok operated in 155 countries and had roughly 1 billion monthly active users, placing... View Details
Keywords: Apps; Artificial Intelligence; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media
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  • April 1999 (Revised September 2001)
  • Case

Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones

By: Paul A. Gompers
Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students get experience using traditional discounted cash flow valuation and a real options... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • Profile

Jennifer Kelly

successful professionals all over the world. I'm excited about the enterprise because it covers the biggest gap in improving social mobility — helping young people realize what they are capable of doing." This summer, Jennifer will... View Details
  • Web

Harvard Business School

personal and professional relationships with the black community within and outside of HBS, engage the broader HBS community, excel academically, and make a positive impact on the community." 26 Panelists in the AASU conferences during the 1980s addressed challenges in... View Details