Computer Software - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

replacement of most faculty and administrative desktop machines, the introduction of a single electronic-mail system, and the construction of a 100-machine personal computer lab in previously unfinished space in the basement of Shad Hall.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

of a mini refrigerator and stacked on top of other line equipment. Better yet, this tighter integration would greatly reduce the manufacturing costs. The second technology was Windows NT. Teradyne's test systems included various software... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

01 Dec 2022
News

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... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

March 2002 (Revised August 2002)
Case

Microsoft.NET

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

Set in the summer of 2000, following the unveiling of Microsoft's .NET initiative to the public. Three of the key figures in .NET's development are considering the next steps they would have to take to keep the initiative moving forward. Specifically, the challenges... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Policy; Business Model; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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Oded Navon

me realize that I wanted to specialize in something where I could have more control over the result and create things that would impact many people all at once. So, I dove into another passion of mine – computers – and went on to become a... View Details

20 Jul 2017
News

Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics

rise. It’s one of the greatest threats that human health is facing today,” says Miriam Huntley, a DZD cofounder who focuses on computational approaches to genomic analysis. “Patients with severe infections can die within hours, but... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2006
News

Bridging the Success Gap

extreme poverty, inspired him to work for social change. An Antioch College graduate who worked as a community organizer in the late 1970s, Navarro then ran a software company prior to attending HBS. “I needed to acquire business skills... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

iPhoto, etc., and become more of a service and software digital home application company. The strategy going forward is going to be more like a consumer electronics company, making hardware and software, rather than being a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

will drive its adoption of Web services: the movement from proprietary to more commonly used technologies; a shift from mechanical systems to those driven by computer connections; and the development of cars that are always "on the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

March 2017 (Revised February 2018)
Case

VMware and the Public Cloud

By: Raffaella Sadun and Christine Snively

In 2015, VMware, a pioneer in server and network virtualization and a member of parent company EMC’s “federation” of companies, had set its sights on becoming a leading public cloud provider. Two years prior, VMware first entered the public cloud market with its vCloud... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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01 Jun 2024
News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

25 Aug 2022
News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

blockchain. That’s a ledger of transactions maintained by a decentralized network of computer systems that validate and cross-validate the transactions. Stablecoins are a different type of crypto asset. They use the same underlying... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

12 Feb 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

organization, which has helped to facilitate peaceful relations in India, Pakistan, Colombia, and Rwanda. In India, for example, the Dreamfly built a high school computer lab in a neighborhood in West Bengal that was a site of... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Apr 2001
News

University Elections

Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California. Berkeley, CA. Deborah C. Wright, AB ’79, MBA/JD ’84. President and CEO, Carver Bancorp., Inc. New York, NY. James V. Baker, AB... View Details

20 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2001
News

The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less

Slayton (MBA 1990) discussing the situation he faced in 1997 when he took over as president and CEO of a small company called MySoftware. The firm was a struggling Silicon Valley business that developed and sold software for a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although the hot-spot phenomenon is big... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

it? Tech didn’t always have a gender diversity problem, at least not by the numbers. In the early days of the industry, when computers were the size of rooms, not wristwatches, women had a significant presence in the field of View Details

Keywords: April White

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