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Luciana Baigun
online platform for the economics community at the school – so she built one. Later, as an auction theory analyst with clients all over the world, she was struck by the ubiquity of mobile phones in India and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
In this excerpt, Nohria and Leestma outline the challenges and rewards awaiting businesses that target the mobile-commerce customer. The best place to start? Develop a thorough knowledge of consumer behavior.The race for dominance in View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
set up a payment system under her new company’s name—all in one day and all on her mobile phone while (I hope) doing her regular work. Needless to say, she can mentor me any day. Of course, reverse mentoring... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Security & Privacy | Information Technology
are various scams and tactics that cybercriminals use to target us everyday. Learn more about common tactics they may use and steps you can take to minimize your risk. Fraudulent Duo Pushes Be mindful when your phone asks you to allow a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
mobile phone hasn’t caught on, either. “I think we had a lot to add in terms of ideas and exposure to different business practices,” says Barry. “But it has to be a partnership with the folks who actually... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
blunder was apparent and the damage done. Nor could United reasonably have used the policy to prevent passengers from making recordings: Telling customers “put down your phones or we’ll arrest you” would have invited concealed recordings... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
their home viewing, and the advent of innovations like 5G, cashless payment systems, and mobile wayfinding solutions are really elevating the venue experience.” —Angela Ruggiero Jonathan Mariner (MBA 1978), Senior Advisor for Imagination... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The View Details
- Web
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
assessors to conduct face-to-face interviews with low-income customers living in rural, hard-to-reach areas. “Today, we can use mobile technology to conduct short phone interviews or SMS (texting) surveys.”... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
In 2010, she founded Growing Through Arts , a company that helps children learn about and explore the arts through books, e-books, toys, games and mobile phone applications. Saying “I am thrilled to bring... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
million in revenue in 2013, up from $58 million in 2012. And it touts a Net Promoter Score—a customer-satisfaction indicator—in the low 80s, saying it is "significantly higher than Apple and Amazon, and nearly 50 points higher than phone... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
to become a center for making mobile phone components and handsets, especially products using CDMA technology, which is widely used in South Korea. Controller board MADE IN CHINA REASON U.S. companies long... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
operators in the United States were only able to glean a general estimate of location from mobile calls, thus hampering response times. Now, thanks to technology developed by RapidSOS, calls received from most Android View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
words in a dusty classroom in an underprivileged Mumbai neighborhood will never escape me. "I have a mobile so I can do it." That day, I recalled my foolhardy delight the moment a boxy green-screen Nokia 3310 was placed in MY... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
the potential to transform or create new industries. Prior to forming Acorn Ventures, Lumry was EVP and CFO of McCaw Cellular Communications. As one of the founders of McCaw Cellular in 1982, he helped Craig McCaw create the nation's largest cellular View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
respondents said they viewed online content on multiple devices. "Research indicates that smart phones and mobiles are where it's at in emerging markets," says Leach. "But we found that many people still use... View Details