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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer.” “While the technology is technically transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer.” A big part of what makes these systems work is that the code itself is transparent, so you can trust the...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
software and services company. The CRC is not her first startup: in 1986 Darwall cofounded ViewStar Corporation, a software company serving Fortune 500 clients that was eventually acquired by Mosaix. At the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
technology vendors took a hit as well. That opened the field to nimbler startups with innovative ideas, says Brooks Gibbins (PMD 77, 2002), a software developer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist who in 2013 cofounded New...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
R&D-intensive fields are likely to correctly predict the success of the firm, but that the same is not true in non-R&D-intensive sectors. Why? Perhaps because success in sectors like consumer software relies less heavily on the initial...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
call center, although he had little to do with the invention of the telephone or computer. Financial and software firms will probably end up paying this fellow several billion dollars in royalties. Fighting his lawsuits would not only be...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
encourage investment in the energy sector would also boost competitiveness. What are attractive investment opportunities in India? Sectors that require technical and labor-intensive input, such as software services, business process...
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- 26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers
software and approach to organization-wide data management and integration. “We help organizations develop a holistic view of their customers and operations by tracking and analyzing data gathered at multiple contact points, including...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
of the World Wide Web, closed out the conference. Acknowledging that "we haven't yet made an information sandbox," he said that the Internet is still at a primitive stage where information does not yet flow freely enough, due in part to View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
of electronic medical records, which make patient information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model, which makes it difficult for information stored on one...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
and withhold by exception.” Have private-sector firms undergone similarly rapid, wholesale reinvention? I would say that IBM’s transformation under Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65), with its shift from hardware to software and services, is an...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
Abercrombie (MBA 1993) was working for a leading educational software publisher outside of Los Angeles. New research on early brain development inspired her and the company’s chief technology officer’s interest in developing learning...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
IBM team pitched their superiors on the company building a computer that could compete on Jeopardy!. It was bold, even risky; Jeopardy! was the ur–game show of idioms and double meanings. Building software for natural-language processing...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Building blocks: “In mastery learning, a student moves at his or her own pace and takes as many shots on goal as needed to master a concept, before advancing. If I’m one teacher with 30 kids, it’s very hard to pull...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
bottles of correction fluid later, Staples continues to expand. "You have to live the reality," explains Stemberg, "but dream the dream." Yet the plethora of products, services, and satisfied customers is more than even Staples' visionary founder fantasized a decade...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
seems to rise above national influences and toward a commonality shared by other top firms in the international arena. In their study of the software industry in India, HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu detect signs that...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages...
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April White
- 17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight
very difficult for me. It was probably my biggest management challenge. After I graduated from HBS and I started this software company, my biggest challenge was overcoming my instinct never to say "No" to anybody and never to contradict...
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- 05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life
works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software developer Wildfire in 2008 (selling the 350-plus employee firm to...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership
decade ago, Natarajan took the reins of Zensar, an ailing software company based in Pune, India, with the challenge of charting a profitable future. Almost immediately, he set a new tone of employee participation resulting in a trajectory...
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