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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
offering users the opportunity to more easily find and connect with other alumni. The new website will also highlight stories of alumni—as well as faculty and students—and showcase the difference they are making in the world. The...
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- 15 Jun 2016
- News
Google's Bold Move To Reinvent Every Device On The Planet
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
subscription-based website would quickly become the world’s largest genealogy company, allowing users to build and share their family trees, digitizing and indexing vast troves of genealogical data, ever increasing through the acquisition...
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- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
associations on the continent, hosted an in-person event last fall in Johannesburg that featured a virtual discussion with Professor Debora Spar, the senior associate dean for Business and Global Society, who leads HBS’s Institute for the...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
ended up discriminating against particular groups of guests. That gives us fascinating insights about how something seemingly innocuous like web design has enormous potential to lead users in either a...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller, the classic letters told the...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
reach out to the EAEF. “Amal was really instrumental in closing that deal,” explains Habib, now CEO of Dawi, “and it was a milestone, because the EAEF was Dawi’s first institutional investor and helped us grow from 4 clinics to 16 today.” Enan also helped View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Elevator Pitch: Rec Checks
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Concept: A social app (with Bill Gates as lead investor) that helps users find and share great experiences. Likewise uses AI and recommendations from...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
but all businesses have to have empathy for the customer. Empathy is the best leading indicator of success for a business. When I consider the startups that pitch to GV, I look for the ones that have true empathy for their customers,...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
accidental timeline of the COVID era: Duolingo saw a 101 percent increase in users in March 2020, as many countries put travel restrictions in place. In the United States, new downloads jumped by 66 percent the week of March 16. In the...
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- 08 May 2015
- News
Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud
types of new customers: brand immigrants and brand tourists. Her findings show that while brand immigrants can dilute a brand’s image, brand tourists increase the pride of established customers by demonstrating admiration and proof of value for the brand, View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Kathryn Smith Cochrane’s (MBA 2016) recent Emmy award win didn’t have the anticipatory stress of the ones you see on TV....
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- 16 Sep 2021
- News
Dean Datar on Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
empathize with users and discover needs that they might not be able to articulate,” says Datar. From there, he outlines a framework for identifying the problems and then ideating solutions—using design principles to combat “cognitive...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
initial revenue push, but the critical move might be to redefine Gazelle around a model of exchanging a product for cash and then extending more product lines. That could lead to relationships with vendors, retailers, and manufacturers...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration...
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Dan Morrell
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
potential to create a lasting impact on women, worldwide. As the lead developer at MOGUL, I coded the first version myself, using Ruby on Rails. It has been an incredible journey, to achieve significant user...
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- 20 Apr 2021
- News
Get Ready for the Relationship Renaissance
designed to be deleted,” according to The Telegraph. While other dating apps value time-spent, McLeod says Hinge measures the success of features by whether or not they lead to more successful dates. Research suggests the company is...
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