Mobile App - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

ClimaCell is pushing to get this information into the hands of residents through its data partners and its mobile apps in the hopes of serving much of the developing world. Elkabetz adds that among... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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Paris Wallace

monitors and tracks their monthly cycle and suggests the optimum time for baby-making. Its pregnancy app guides women to healthier pregnancies. In its two years of existence, this Boston-based health technology startup has helped more... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Making a Difference

All six of these alumni change agents identified a problem and set out to fix it. Their examples illuminate a path for others to follow. What’s That Funny Graphic? You’ll notice something new in this issue — small, strange-looking square graphics called QR (Quick... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Becoming a Consulting Expert

mobile app for your firm without needing to spend hundreds of hours working alongside you - they don’t need to know every single one of your customer’s desires or every single intricacy of your business;... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace

PensionBee in 2014 to address this lack of continuity and introduce transparency to an industry that’s known to be convoluted and confusing. The company is able to track down a customer’s pension plans and consolidate them into one, which can be managed by a View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Anthony Tan

for a mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment. The drivers would be supplied with smartphones so they could... View Details

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Marques Torbert

Marques, who is considering his own entrepreneurial venture as a career possibility, especially enjoys his FIELD 3 team project, a mobile app that facilitates spontaneous, inexpensive, and casual... View Details

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. They first designed a mobile site called Easy Food Stamps that streamlined SNAP enrollment, then developed the Fresh EBT app that allowed users to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

Technology Development (B) Kerr, William R., and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-123 Brent Grinna has one customer signed up for his alumni-networking mobile app and is now trying to choose... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53418 Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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. Readings on diagnostic machines... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running, the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Dec 2015
News

Snapping Up Voters

supporters to donate and volunteer to one where they can persuade undecided voters. At Snapchat, the mobile app known for its ephemeral messaging, prospective targets are likely to be much younger than those... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

Fast Answer

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

taverns,buffets & cafeterias -social media marketing and restaurant apps -brand management Mintel - consumer market studies and primary and secondary data analysis (primarily for European and US countries) for... View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

a team project in the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). With just three days to complete a prototype, Batt’s team created a connected device and View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

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... View Details

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

profitability,” in placing particular emphasis on how ventures scale by achieving not just product-market fit, but profit -market fit. Classes cover a diverse array of tech and tech-enabled businesses, including e-commerce, ed-tech, SaaS, HR-tech, View Details

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

they already knew from a roster of names and photos. Researchers randomly assigned participants to teams and work stations in a large open space and challenged them to create a mobile app for the Indian... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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