Are Smarter Meters Smarter Readers? The Evolution of the Meter and the Smart Grid within the United States
Itron – a smart meter company – is taking the next step to evolve the Smart Grid into an “Active” grid. Will Itron succeed?
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GO-JEK: Motorbike taxi changing the landscape in Indonesia
GO-JEK, an Indonesian start up founded by HBS alum Nadiem Makarim (MBA 2011), became a unicorn at a US$1.3 billion valuation only 1.5 years after they launched its mobile application [1]. How did Makarim create such a huge business with digital technology?
Quality Food, Fast – Deliveroo and the On Demand Economy
High smartphone penetration and cloud based software has enabled Deliveroo to become the Uber of food delivery but are the benefits of this opportunity shared equally amongst all stakeholders?
Making it rain…Chinese Red Packets
When it comes to China’s New Year celebrations, the traditional greeting is no longer “Happy New Year” but “How many digital red packets did you get?” With 409,000 digital red packets sent and received every second via smartphones this year, I hope you got quite a few.
Samsung Teaches An Old Appliance New Tricks: The Family Hub Refrigerator
Samsung has developed an internet-enabled refrigerator that promises to organize the lives of today's busy families. Consumers are excited, but can they stomach the price?
TaskRabbit: Say to No to Chores
TaskRabbit uses mobile technology to save consumers from chores.
bKash, BRAC’s venture into mobile banking
bKash – the story of how BRAC Bank introduced “transferring money by air” and developed the world’s second largest mobile money service in Bangladesh
Buying Budhist priests via Amazon: Minrevi’s challenge to transform Japan’s funerals
Minrevi Co., Ltd., founded in 2009, is now challenging to transform one of the most traditional area of business: Japanese funeral industry. To correct the market failures exist in the industry, Minrevi offers series of untraditional services such as "funeral in space," "priests delivery via Amazon," and so on.
Netflix Can’t Chill Anymore
Has Netflix maxed out the potential of digital transformation?
Are smart cribs the solution for exhausted parents?
Exhausted parents around the world have probably fantasized, at some point, about a crib that could automatically rock their crying infants to sleep. Of the many firms currently trying to win the hearts of new parents is Google’s Nest Lab, an interesting example of a company that has recognized and attempted to mitigate the pain points that parents of newborns often face.