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  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Business School Case 817-051 Bootstrapping at Lightricks By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Screen Grab

(including ESPN, Disney Channel, Food Network, and CNN) to mobile devices. Sony’s PlayStation Vue offers more channels but at a higher price tag, and later this year, Apple will launch a web TV service. “Everyone is obsessed with figuring... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

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
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
  • 11 May 2020
  • News

Better Than Cash

much as one-third of a household’s annual income. If she receives payments in cash, her savings could easily be stolen or perhaps used by a male relative (men have more financial power in many cultures) for another purpose. If, instead, the woman receives digital... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution

host of Web-based social enterprises (WEBSEs): nonprofit information hubs, online giving directories, click-to-donate sites, workplace-giving centers, charity shopping malls and auctions, and volunteer clearinghouses. These start-ups are View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 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
Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 14 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

encouraged, but neither activity engages the unique skills and capabilities of business. Consider the typical corporate volunteer program. It almost invariably draws on the lowest common skills in a company by mobilizing people to do... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Profile

Raghu Yarlagadda

image and video processing. For four years, he worked at Motorola Mobility among the engineers who developed high-definition television technology. In the third year of his employment, he contributed to one of the first wireless set-top... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

compromise the health of the entire ecosystem. Loose coupling: Embrace mobility and flexibility. The heart of operating strategy for a niche player is to leverage the broad-based efficiencies offered by connecting up with several players... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. To avoid the worst impacts of climate 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 View Details
  • October 2017
  • Supplement

Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)

By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case.

Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • November 1996 (Revised December 1996)
  • Case

Rogers Communications, Inc.: The Wave

By: John A. Deighton, Karsten Voermann and Reginal Gilyard
Rogers Communications, Inc., Canada's largest cable television provider, is deciding how it should respond to developments that appear to portend the convergence of its industry with the computing and telecommunications industries. In particular, it is investigating... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Consumer Behavior; Technology Adoption; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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  • 15 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

leaders’ understanding of environmental challenges and assist them in developing effective solutions.” Compare this to our current mission: “to educate, connect, and mobilize current and future business leaders to address climate change... View Details
  • Web

Israel - Global Activities 2020

the bank’s entry into online banking under Russak-Aminoach’s dynamic leadership. In 2017, five years into her tenure as CEO, she took a characteristically bold step and launched Pepper, Israel’s first completely mobile bank, as a... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Making Eco Easy

Competition (photo by Susan Young) That realization later led Paiji Yoo (who left HBS after her first year to pursue a mobile shopping startup she created) and her sectionmate John Mascari (MBA 2012) to cofound Blueland, which makes... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Net Gains

getting games on TV, online, and, increasingly, in consumers' hands via mobile devices. From there, the league needs to figure out the right media partners to distribute the product. If all that succeeds, the next move is investing in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53418 Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how app developers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • Profile

Creighton Taylor

2 experience in Accra, Ghana. There, Creighton’s team worked with the country’s largest entertainment company, Multimedia, to develop a mobile app for its media site. “I was both new to the industry and new to the continent,” Creighton... View Details