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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Quaxar.com, an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm based in Miami, took a different approach to the matter of start-up capital. Leonel Azuela (MBA 2000), managing partner of Quaxar, explains that "we opted for a strategic partnership with an established U.S. View Details
- June 2019
- Case
Monetizing Insurance at Trov
By: Thales Teixeira, Samy Dana and Leandro A Guissoni
Trov is a disruptive startup in the insurance space (“insurtech”). It allows consumers to simply turn on and turn off insurance for each of their possessions on a mobile app with the swipe of a finger. Consumers love the simple, on-demand, single-item coverage product....
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Keywords:
Monetization;
Decoupling;
Business Startups;
Insurance;
Disruption;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Strategy;
Insurance Industry
Teixeira, Thales, Samy Dana, and Leandro A Guissoni. "Monetizing Insurance at Trov." Harvard Business School Case 519-082, June 2019.
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and...
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- April 2016 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
InMobi: Reimagining Mobile Advertising
By: Sunil Gupta and Saloni Chaturvedi
InMobi, a mobile advertising company, considered one of India's first unicorns, has launched a new product called Miip. InMobi hopes that the product will grow its revenue eight times by 2018. Visually identified by a mascot, Miip seeks to reimagine adverting by...
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Keywords:
Mobile App;
Advertising;
India;
Applications and Software;
Globalization;
Digital Marketing;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Advertising Industry;
China;
India
Gupta, Sunil, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "InMobi: Reimagining Mobile Advertising." Harvard Business School Case 516-030, April 2016. (Revised November 2017.)
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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- January 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
foursquare
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Chen
Co-founders of foursquare are deciding how to respond to competitive threats and scale up the organization. Foursquare was a location-based online service that allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Competitive Advantage;
Web Services Industry;
United States
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and David Chen. "foursquare." Harvard Business School Case 711-418, January 2010. (Revised March 2013.)
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
of the internet involves deciphering a complicated landscape. Source: Wavebreakmedia With the benefit of fifteen years worth of hindsight, it is evident that Speed Trap, when looking ahead, had a profound status quo bias. The book did anticipate that broadband and...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
It might be hard for the ordinary business owner or consumer to imagine having "too much" money. But that's exactly where the venture capital industry finds itself: with too much money available for the number of emerging...
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- Web
Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Sheila Lirio Marcelo – Care.com Alexis Maybank – Gilt Groupe Terry McGuire – Polaris Partners Steve Papa – Parallel Wireless Victoria Ransom – Wildfire, a division of Google Neil Rimer – Index Ventures Phil Terry – Creative Good Alexandra...
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- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Working PapersThe Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through View Details
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- March 2018
- Teaching Note
Twine Health
By: Robert S. Huckman and Ariel D. Stern
In late 2014, Dr. John Moore (CEO), Frank Moss (chairman), and Scott Gilroy (CTO) of Twine Health (Twine) had to resolve several challenges that threatened to restrict the widespread dissemination of its sole product, Twine. Twine was a cloud-based platform that...
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- March 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Bank of America: Mobile Banking
By: Sunil Gupta and Kerry Herman
In January 2010, Jen McDonald, head of Bank of America Corporation's (BAC) Digital Marketing group, was discussing the bank's mobile strategy with Douglas Brown, senior vice president, Mobile Product Development. BAC launched mobile banking in 2007 and within three...
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Keywords:
Marketing;
Digital Marketing;
Financial Services;
Mobile Banking;
Channels;
Strategy;
Banks and Banking;
Marketing Strategy;
Service Delivery;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Banking Industry;
United States
Gupta, Sunil, and Kerry Herman. "Bank of America: Mobile Banking." Harvard Business School Case 510-063, May 2012. (Revised from original March 2010 version.)
- February–March 2013
- Article
The Mobile Banking and Payment Revolution
By: Sunil Gupta
Mobile technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in developed countries and reach a large population of unbanked customers in emerging markets....
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Keywords:
Emerging Markets;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry
Gupta, Sunil. "The Mobile Banking and Payment Revolution." European Financial Review (February–March 2013), 3–6.
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
academics for an exploration of new economy themes ranging from getting back to sustainable business models to the emerging wireless landscape. “Over the past year, we have seen a flight to quality in the technology market, where MBA...
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- October 2007
- Case
iPhone vs. Cell Phone
By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of digital music players with mobile phones). The iPhone combined an iPod music player, a cell phone, and a mobile Internet device, along with a camera and other...
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Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Music Entertainment;
Product Launch;
Partners and Partnerships;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Michael Slind. "iPhone vs. Cell Phone." Harvard Business School Case 708-451, October 2007.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Learning by Supplying
By: Juan Alcacer and Joanne Oxley
Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention...
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Keywords:
Learning;
Supply Chain;
Competitive Advantage;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Competency and Skills;
Relationships;
Telecommunications Industry
Alcacer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley. "Learning by Supplying." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-093, April 2012.
- October 2009 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Qualcomm Incorporated 2009
By: David B. Yoffie, Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth A. Kind
Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, smiled as he reflected on the success of Qualcomm's code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. By the summer of 2009, CDMA was the basis for all third generation technologies available for cellular...
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Keywords:
Business Units;
Diversification;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Telecommunications Industry
Yoffie, David B., Andrei Hagiu, and Elizabeth A. Kind. "Qualcomm Incorporated 2009." Harvard Business School Case 710-433, October 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
- January 2004
- Case
Nokia and MIT's Project Oxygen (Abridged)
By: David B. Yoffie and Rebecca Henderson
Looks at how Nokia should respond to a future vision of computing and communications that was developed at MIT's Project Oxygen.
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Keywords:
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Adaptation;
Strategic Planning;
Telecommunications Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Rebecca Henderson. "Nokia and MIT's Project Oxygen (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 704-474, January 2004.
- March 2017
- Teaching Note
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Teaching Note for HBS No. 316-154.
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