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- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
happier. Is it a losing battle given-- Winfrey: I don't think so. Goldberg: Well, the power of technology. Winfrey: Yeah. Goldberg: I mean, I'm wondering how you frame this in your own mind versus the ubiquity of the smartphone and the... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- Research Summary
Platform Competition
Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
2015, provides smartphone financing and other financial products to customers who lack access to traditional credit products. As of early 2025, PayJoy had issued $2.5 billion in loans to 13 million customers across Latin America, Africa,... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
The line gets blurry for shoppers when retailers won't honor their online prices in-store. (Kwangmoozaa) While shopping for my 10-year-old daughter’s Halloween costume last October, I pulled out my smartphone and hopped online to see if... View Details
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
Ranjay Gulati talks to Tynan about her learning journey, and how she managed the risks of entrepreneurship while aiming to make a lasting impact. Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls John Chen was hired to save an iconic View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
Many of us feel time-pressured, tethered to our smartphones so we can stay on top of work and home responsibilities. It can be tough to step off the daily merry-go-round, put our phones, laptops, and to-do lists aside, and find decent... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows
(MBA 2022) and Christopher Edward Dee (MD 2021). Patrick's research focuses on utilizing real-world behavioral data from smartphones to characterize patient quality of life and to develop adaptive interventions using reinforcement... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
develop the kinds of chip-based systems that now power everything from smartphones to supercomputers. Some experts believe that quantum computing will follow a similar decadal timeline, which would put SEEQC and its chip-based systems... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- Web
Logging In - Research Computing Services
Mobile 'push' using the smartphone mobile application, please see Section 3, steps 1 and 5 through 8. GUI Login to the HBSGrid If you wish to use applications on the HBSGrid via a graphical user interface (GUI), we support remote desktop... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Runner-Up SaferTaxi takes a successful concept from the US/Europe to Latin America. The company provides a smartphone application that allows consumers to book, pay rate taxis with added convenience as well as transparency. SaferTaxi aims... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
days that they drive. This type of contract is common in other markets, for instance in cell-phone contracts, where pay-as-you-go enabled the proliferation of smartphone adoption across the world by allowing consumers to “top up” their... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
world following China’s path. “It was an incredibly powerful wave that I wanted to ride—to build a digital business that would help people in emerging markets use their smartphones to connect to markets and improve their quality of life,”... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
your smartphone and summon a driverless car to take you. And that leaves room for a new, disruptive financial model. Buell envisions the possibility that cars could be sold by the mile, like the usage model of a cloud computing... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
The coronavirus pandemic has not only disrupted lives and businesses, it has illuminated underlying fragilities in the global value chain (GVC) that drives economies around the world. The smartphone you use many times daily is a product... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
Out with the old, in with the new! That's the natural path of innovation. PCs killed typewriters, for instance. Smartphones superseded telephones, pocket calculators, and point-and-shoot cameras. Every once in a while, though, an old... View Details
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Overview
By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
already wide-ranging assortment of unique items. Nordstrom's private label has always been a respected part of its offer." Town Square Johnson's vision is to make the shopping experience as easy and enjoyable as buying a smartphone at an... View Details