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- 18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart
States, because we’ve brought all of the tools we’ve built to connect with underserved communities around the globe to populations right here, in our own backyard,” notes Risher. Thus far, Worldreader has reached 19 million readers in 48...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
innovation, reflecting advances over the last several decades. The contributors offer theoretical and empirical perspectives from economics, the history of science and technology, law, management, and policy. After discussing the fundamentals of View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best matches, automatically showing View Details
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- 20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected
we had some runway.” With Caribu, users can see and hear each other like in a traditional video call, but they can also read, draw, sing, or cook together using the in-app library full of age appropriate content and activities. Both...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
airline ticket, or renewing a car registration - users activate their wallets, which then enter credit card, billing, and shipping information onto a point-of-sale form with a single click. But even the most basic wallet doesn't stop...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
IDs, timestamps the occurrence, and logs the length of the encounter. Because it employs Bluetooth rather than GPS, the app doesn’t track users’ location. This helped address some, though not all, privacy concerns. In the event an app View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
The Sky is Not the Limit Ruth Cenat (MBA 2015) plans to change America—one community at a time. “In disadvantaged areas,” Cenat says, “if local businesses thrive, the neighborhoods flourish. There is a stronger tax base, parents have...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Snapping Up Voters
Illustration by Chris Gash When Rob Saliterman (MBA 2011) started selling online political ads at Google, they were almost all destined for people already seeking political content, placed either on specific networks or in response to View Details
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Apr 1998
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Sparking Internet Commerce
businesses and organizations to provide users with a highly personalized selection of goods, services, and information." Employing passwords and aliases to ensure anonymity, individual users supply personal...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
expatriate employees ride them. By comparison, through the Go-Jek app a user could now summon a ride in seconds just as a New Yorker could summon an Uber. Routes were traceable, fares were calculated transparently, and passengers could...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
users grow. Most of our users are nontechnical, and they weren't really part of the tech community until they discovered Bubble. Bubble is a way for them to get into the space,...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code
the foundations of our social safety net—making it easier, for example, for people to apply for food assistance or for probation officers to communicate with their parolees. On today's episode of Skydeck, Ingersoll talks with contributor...
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- 20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online
Veterans Affairs benefits, Hall and fellow Army Ranger Matthew Thompson (MBA 2010) sought to create a business that would help veterans receive the benefits they deserve. The result was TroopSwap, an online source for discounts and other goodies that companies extend...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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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
- 01 Dec 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
brands best use social media to collaborate with consumers? One way is to use social media as a sounding board in advance of major decisions. Social media makes it easy for us to identify customers who are highly involved in the brand. We could reach out to those...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
remain a 'reseller,' taking inventory of products from users and reselling them to wholesalers. This means its advantage can only come from scale. The problem then is that Gazelle's direct-to-consumer approach on its buy side places it at...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check
Illustration by Neil Webb Illustration by Neil Webb Josh Hoffman-Senn (MBA 2019) and fellow cofounder of LS, Jimmy Pemberton, launched their initial digital toolkit in 2021, after seeing fellow musicians search out supplemental income while venues were shut down and...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
generating new product ideas. Sometimes a community of users will form independently of the company. That can be tricky, because they will not want to be controlled, and they will want to criticize your...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story
backing from Bling Capital, DCM, and Precursor Ventures. Saga grew its initial customer base during the pandemic as families searched for ways to stay connected across the distance, Lin says. Through the app, a user can share weekly...
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- 24 Mar 2022
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Well Said
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Anada Lakra (MBA 2021) left her native Albania to attend Yale, she had studied English for a decade and felt pretty confident in her ability to View Details