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- 18 Jan 2018
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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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- 12 Nov 2021
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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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- 01 Mar 2011
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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
- 24 Apr 2014
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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
- 25 Apr 2014
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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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- 01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit
gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2016
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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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April White
- 11 Mar 2020
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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...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2020
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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
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 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
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 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...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- 07 Nov 2014
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The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
responsive on mobile and will soon launch a mobile app on iPhone. Noting the passionate following of our original video series, “How She Did It,” as well as the user engagement...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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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...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
mobile one. Uber and other apps have made the mobile device a remote control for life (think of how distressing it is when your battery runs out!). The pace of innovation here...
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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town hall at a time—or even just one...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
what the consumer wants at the end of the day. If I can order bird seed with three clicks because I just feel like it and my mobile app on Amazon allows me to do that and my card's connected, why can't you...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
mobile application. We currently offer destination information on Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, and London on the mobile app and hope to cover as many as 150 places....
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- 28 Apr 2016
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New Venture Competition Winners Announced
audience who would be voting for the $2,000 “crowd favorite” prize at the School’s annual New Venture Competition Finale. “We’re building a telemedicine app for Africa . Half of all outpatient visits can be conducted over a View Details