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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
value iPhones and high-definition TVs, but there is a big difference between them in terms of trade. Homes and health care can’t be exported, while manufactured goods make up about 80 percent of world trade. If Americans want to keep... View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
is all too familiar and similar to how I felt seeing the human dignity stripped from Tamir Rice, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, and many others. There were no iPhones and no social media then, though. We watched the story of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
dad’s primary physician, a highly engaged and thoughtful practitioner, believed on balance that IT systems caused hours of extra work with little real benefit. Paper wasn’t perfect, she told me, but it worked. By contrast, my dad’s cardiologist proudly used his View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
In the high-tech industry, it's common practice for a governing body to develop technical standards for any given technology. The goal is to promote widespread adoption and compatibility among various devices. The Bluetooth standard lets a Nokia headset communicate... View Details
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
and other retailers are experimenting with offering rewards program members discounts on gasoline, for instance. And Stop & Shop recently rolled out Scan It! Mobile, an app that turns a customer's iPhone into a mobile scanner and... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
highly-portable cross between the iPhone and the old laptop. Language has been condensed with the size of tech devices and the continued clumsiness of our thumbs. Along with it, some fear that there is a growing inability or unwillingness... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
Perkins and Apple to invest in companies that would develop apps for the iPhone. The result: a critical mass of applications for Apple's App Store, which today boasts some 700,000 iPhone and iPad applications and 400 million customer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
masks to “Mr. Wonderful” talking picture frames. Left-handed baseball gloves, bare-root rosebushes, a leather holster for your iPhone once we had such a good deal on jackets that a fight broke out over the last one. Of course, we’ve also... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
remarkable is that he did this not once but several times in industries that touch many peoples' lives. Meg Rithmire (Business, Government & the International Economy The passing of Steve Jobs has been met with great sadness and reflection in China, where many are... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
durable, consumable, functional, and hedonic products) and evidence from a real-word dataset of lost Apple iPhones demonstrate how the availability of product upgrades increases cavalier behavior toward possessions. Moreover, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
Chakravorti and N. VenkatramanHarvard Business School Case 810-143 Dr. Cameron Powell and his partner, Trey Moore, co-founders of the innovative company, AirStrip Technologies, have developed a series of apps for the iPhone and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-122 Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding a CTO, or outsourcing. He only has a little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Here, alumni and faculty experts weigh in on some of the assumptions about a hyper-connected world. The upgrade to 5G will be revolutionary for consumers. The arrival of 3G, which delivered the iPhone to the world and made it mainstream,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
for iPhone and Android. The timing was great as mobile apps were starting to take off. However, my Bessemer team and I became fixated on the pricing model and passed on the Series-A round. Just a few years later, the company sold to... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
small, Apple was increasingly dependent on the iPhone to drive its growth. Could Cook continue Apple's dominance in the smartphone market in the face of growing competition? Could he revitalize the iPad business, become a leader in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
termed a “freedom from fear.” Amy’s book touches on these powerful themes that are also central tenets of agile organizations. I cannot wait to engage and learn more within the covers of these two exciting books. For listening and iPhone... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
challenges of a platform landscape that includes significantly varying installed device base sizes, growth rates, application distribution models, and hardware device profiles. Focusing on Apple's market leading iOS platform and "App Store," for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
torque immediately, producing jaw-dropping acceleration—the instant-on of an iPhone versus the slow boot of a laptop. While midday Manhattan traffic does not afford many opportunities for drag racing, Kristin suddenly had me take a sharp... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
are limited to the iPhone and the iPad. Making such pro-consumer choices may be why Apple, according to recent media reports, has more money in its coffers than the US Treasury. As for Progressive Insurance, Weaver lauds the company's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
a fitness event headlined by Jakarta’s popular governor. He also had to deliver a signed contract and an invoice to two separate clients. This could all mean hours in traffic. His solution was an all-of-the-above approach. Using his View Details