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- 26 Jul 2011
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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...
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- 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...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
inside the booth owned by tech startup Barared to do everything from place phone calls to pay bills, deposit money, and buy minutes for their mobile phones. It’s a convenience for her customers, Reyes says:...
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- 01 Aug 2002
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HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
enterprise teams advanced to the final round. From there, four traditional track and two social enterprise teams made the cut. Traditional track winner FishLogic plans to produce programmable signal processing chips that would eventually be used in everything from cell...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had...
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- 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...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab
models from which they were born,” says Cheng, citing the convention of the 2-hour movie and 30-minute or 1-hour TV sitcom or drama. “Now we have the factor of a mobile phone and a shorter format.” The...
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- 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control trial with Nilesh Fernando, then a PhD candidate at Harvard, to evaluate whether a mobile...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
world.” “At the time, India had three fat books of import policies, and I knew them backward and forward. In 1982, phones could not be imported, but electronic parts could. I imported the first push-button View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are, staffing the View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments....
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
joining the mobile network every month,” says Mittal. “Mobile phones have moved from an aspirational product to a mass product in a decade.” At the Tata Group, engineers are at work on a $2,000 car, the next...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
lifestyle branding. The more mobile phones, streaming media, and portable gaming evolve, the more time consumers are spending wearing headphones. Think about what headphones looked like in 2003 when the company launched—they were boring....
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
School of Business. At least one doctoral candidate is experiencing a slight detour in his course of study, but happily so. Last November, Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002) took a phone call from former mentor and HLS professor Elizabeth...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur
carefully, and helped broker a mutually satisfactory solution. That moment meant more to me than the resolution of a dispute: It was symbolic of a conclusion I reached, probably shared by most Black students at the time, that although there will always be those who...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
mock-ups—complete with a drive-thru model—the future vision plays out like this: You approach a McDonald’s, and when you are within 100 meters, the restaurant’s “geofencing” technology recognizes your phone and brings up your regular...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
its third consecutive fund commenced in 1992. We are currently raising a fourth fund which includes some HBS classmates (all others are welcome!!!). I have two daughters, ages 30 and 28, respectively, and a son, age 1, by my wonderful wife of five years, Donna, R.N.,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
subscription service, which we chose for ease of use. Yes, we could have launched an app, but that’s not necessarily the easiest way to consume news, whereas everyone with a mobile phone has access to a text...
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