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- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in...
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Teams - New Venture Competition
Uplift Shiva Velingker (MBA 2025), Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025), Zelma Garza A mobile app that helps lonely individuals remember they are loved and valued. NetaCarbon Grace Lam (MBA/MPP 2024), Mar Velasco...
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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020
they needed more time to execute on the strategy to better prove the value of its mobile app and ecosystem-driven strategy. The students were concerned that the company would suffer from the aborted plans....
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Conference for “Learning By Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods.” Frank Nagle: Recipient of a 2017 USC Institute for Outlier Research in Business Funding Grant for "Digital Entrepreneurship and Innovation:...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
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. Between Q4 2020 and Q4...
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- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
property technology for the Built World. The firm’s Climate Tech fund looks to invest in technologies built to help the real estate industry reduce its carbon footprint to zero and adapt in the face of a changing climate. Mike's role prior to HBS was a View Details
- 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...
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- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
a robust ecosystem with a mobile app that brings together all the participants in the marketplace and controls the entire ecosystem of vehicles, batteries and charging seamlessly. Green Science...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative and penalizing companies that do not have a credible decarbonizing strategy. Consumers are increasingly demanding green products and are becoming sensitive to their carbon footprint, with many apps allowing them to keep track...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
solutions such as the construction of mobile COVID test units with medical teams, which have so far tested over 60,000 people. The design was donated to 10 hospitals and is now also available for free online. Case 2: Leverage and protect...
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- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
Instead of taking big screens across the country by storm, this summer’s blockbuster has people glued to much smaller ones. Launched at the beginning of July by San Francisco-based software development company Niantic, Inc., Pokémon Go has quickly become one of the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world
homophily—the “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies of like-minded people? Only by understanding the relative impacts of these factors can companies develop effective marketing strategies. Studying the adoption of a mobile View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Child’s Play
Press-Gazette (November 16, 2010). Observing her own under-two son flip pictures and flashcards on an iPhone, Tak realized how technology can be used by even the very young. And she noted, while there are lots of apps for View Details
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Using Personal Devices for HBS Business | Information Technology
the devices that are working on. Personal Device Requirements Any device (laptop, desktop, or mobile device) that will access, or store Level 3 (Sensitive) Harvard data must adhere to the requirements listed in the Minimum Security...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) launched an online travel guide and mobile app to help people with physical challenges find accessible hotels, restaurants, and activities, as well as emergency services....
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- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
run on Microsoft’s Windows platform, was the dominant web browser in the 1990s until squashed by Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. In February 2015 there was the launch of Meerkat, an app that lets users broadcast live streaming video...
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Tips for Working Remotely | Information Technology
protect yourself when using hotel or airport Wi-Fi. Review our Best Practices for Traveling Abroad document, created in conjunction with other higher education institutes. Protect your Mobile Devices Keep the OS and View Details
- 18 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
CPD Global Market Update: Singapore
markets. The region is poised to have a massive increase in mobile and internet spending and, it’s believed that Amazon is ready to launch in Singapore too. Grab, founded by two HBS alumni, is also competing head-to-head with Uber. Grab...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
early-stage consumer tech company; and we didn’t have a good way to distribute our product. Today Teespring is doing the same thing Cameesa did. It’s worth hundreds of millions. The idea for TalkBin came from listening to our customers. We were selling a View Details
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- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
including Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, saw slower job growth than did smaller entrepreneurial ventures. Sole proprietors and super-small firms enjoyed some of the biggest employment gains: For example, as many as 35,000 full-time equivalent jobs were created around...
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