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- 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 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
folks who have worked at pure-play digital companies. Both love the brand equally, but they have different ideas about what is possible for the brand.” The bleeding edge: “Is a place every company should want to be. Selectively. For example, Time Inc. launched a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
codes readable by smartphone cameras. The information encoded in the graphic will take your smartphone browser to a designated Web address. To access the bar-code information, first download free QR scanner software from your smartphone provider’s View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
around each user. Leveraging AI and machine learning, the app uses a sophisticated algorithm to streamline and personalize a dynamically adaptive online feed of potential purchases based on yes or no responses to simple questions, getting... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) launched an online travel guide and mobile app to help people with physical challenges find accessible hotels, restaurants, and activities, as well as emergency services. AbilityTrip.com and the online community it... 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 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
COVID-19, there has been such a need—who wants to go to the hospital for a sore throat in a pandemic? In addition, what hospital wants to see them? The acceptance of telemedicine has also led to a boom in wearable sensors. Apple came out with an View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
reflection. “One of the course goals is to help students develop self-knowledge and live with greater intentionality,” explains Francis, who journals regularly. “We created an app that prompts students to reflect daily and then aggregates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
experience—downloaded as an app to a VR headset—is more like a Choose Your Own A dventure book. Users’ decisions shape the storyline, while their interactions with the characters do something even more remarkable: create an emotional... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption
“It’s good governance in your pocket. 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... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
did you and your company address the challenges that came with the pandemic? “Honestly, right now our biggest problem is keeping up with demand. We hired the head of product of the largest delivery app in Latin America to help us continue... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
mobile one. Uber and other apps have made the mobile device a remote control for life (think of how distressing it is when your battery runs out!). The pace of innovation here makes it incredibly exciting to be a part of this industry.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
include a mechanical engineering degree from MIT and patented novel technologies for self-driving vehicles. “But I don’t want to just make an app that delivers Instacart items five seconds sooner. My career vision is to tackle difficult... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
profile for Republic-listed companies different, but the platform is also selling products and services less likely to resonate with what Hofmann calls the “traditional white-male VC.” She holds up the example of the black-owned startup theCut, an View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
should be as well versed in those possibilities as anyone building consumer apps or SaaS for enterprise. It’s also an incredibly perilous moment for technology and the impact it’s having on society—whether it’s elections and free speech... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
services. “We’re working to introduce these technologies to clients in their 60s and 70s. These are people who don’t go to bed with their phones beside them.” Such technology, she says, includes screen readers for smart phones, for example, or the ability to use the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
the markets get jumpy, as they did in March, Chapman can unlock the app with his fingerprint to see, within seconds, the state of his investments. (He can also avoid the app for months and maintain a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint