App Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

following the steps a customer takes to select, buy, and consume a product or service. You call these situations “decoupling.” Could you give an example? Teixeira: A great example of decoupling is an insurance startup called Trov. It’s an View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

launching its MVP in Detroit automotive plants when COVID shut down businesses around the world. Yanez pivoted and developed a mobile app that would enable front-line workers to safely return to work.... View Details

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

other projects produced the nation's first big-city 311 app that allows citizens to alert government to potholes and graffiti. He also helped cut through zoning laws to create the Boston Innovation District on a vast and underdeveloped... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Capability Development at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” with Tiona Zuzul, Ranjay Gulati, and Ryan Raffaelli. Jan W. Rivkin : Winner of the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference Best Research Methods Paper Award... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

across four countries. Foodology delivers 200,000 orders a month through apps such as Uber Eats and the Latin American unicorn Rappi, and it has fulfilled more than 2 million orders since launch. According to Izquierdo, Latin America is... View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

help anyone succeed in any industry: Entrepreneurial Sales 101 with Senior Lecturers Mark Roberge and Lou Shipley. It helps students develop tangible tools to improve dynamic sales techniques. Whether you’re out fundraising with... View Details

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

investors in London and New York? Kaspi.kz’s business model is one that is unlikely to have developed elsewhere, says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and the faculty chair of HBS’s Middle East and North Africa... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

not sure which course is right for me. How do I choose? Please take a look at our course catalog which compares details on each of our current course offerings. What kind of access will I have to faculty? Our courses have been developed... View Details

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

a reseller to completely control prices, and the prices were quite low." On the flip side, Apple manages its iPhone App Store as an MSP, creating a space where application developers can market and sell a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2018
News

The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

order from kiosks. We had delivery set up so they could experience what delivery was all about. We had our mobile app and our mobile order and pay. Our new value programs are hot off the grill beef. So they could really experience it all... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

revolve around the production, supply, maintenance and logistics for energy. Brazil Energy Biomass started planning for COVID-19 safety protocols before the country was caught in the first wave of the pandemic. For the directors, it was a “natural instinctive force” to... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

©iStock/maislam To find out, McDonald fixed his sights on the emerging market of online investing, studying five unnamed competitors at the beginning of their race to the top and following their actions and success as the market developed... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

technological assistance to help accelerate third-party innovations. Apple, for example, launched the iPhone and the iPad with a few bundled applications that it developed in-house, including a web browser (Safari), Mail, Photos, Video,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53388 Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi Abstract—Problem Definition: Farmers face several... View Details