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- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
Incremental changes. The first type, which occurred immediately following the accidents, consisted of incremental changes—that is, software fixes targeted at preventing accidental over-radiation. These included dose displays, alerts, and...
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- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
quite comprehensive. They include not just GHGs, but other environmental resources like water requirements and other pollutants you might care about as well,” Toffel says. The researchers outline how some software programs and data work...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
proving elusive. Had Joly done enough to reinvent Best Buy? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716455-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-454 Salesforce.com vs. Siebel (Abridged) Explores the phenomenon of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code (A)
By: Joseph Pacelli and Sarah Mehta
This case covers the events leading up to the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Using GameStop as an illustrative example, the case explores the rise in retail trading, increased financial information sharing on social media, and the gamification of investing enabled by...
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Value;
Stocks;
Financial Markets;
Social Media;
Investment;
Applications and Software;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Pacelli, Joseph, and Sarah Mehta. "GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-005, October 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- July 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Linux in 2004
By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Brian Subirana and Christina Pham
A new technology platform conceived in the early 1990s, Linux developed into a force to be reckoned with in the operating system marketplace. At first, Linux was dismissed as a renegade option used only by tech geeks. By 2004, however, Linux had exploded into the...
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Competition;
Open Source Distribution;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Information Technology Industry
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Brian Subirana, and Christina Pham. "Linux in 2004." Harvard Business School Case 705-407, July 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- 01 Oct 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber?
- May 2017 (Revised February 2018)
- Supplement
VMware and the Public Cloud (B)
By: Raffaella Sadun and Christine Snively
Supplements the (A) case.
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Information Technology;
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Computer Industry;
Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Sadun, Raffaella, and Christine Snively. "VMware and the Public Cloud (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-515, May 2017. (Revised February 2018.)
- October 1994
- Supplement
Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Windows Network Version
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Windows Network Version." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 195-727, October 1994.
- June 1995
- Supplement
Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Macintosh Network Version
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Macintosh Network Version." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 195-726, June 1995.
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
positions of the various players in the smart grid market—infrastructure builders, software suppliers, network providers, utilities, system operators—in an effort to figure out who might benefit. "It's interesting to get some type of...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the applications and their relationships in an enterprise...
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Anna Secino
- September 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size
Supplements the (A) case.
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Venture Capital;
Business Plan;
Research;
Applications and Software;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry
Roberts, Michael J. "Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size." Harvard Business School Case 899-064, September 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
McKinsey to found Acorn Systems where he developed software to incorporate time equations into ABC. The software modeled how, for example, the time to process a customer order would vary depending on whether...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 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...
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- December 2013 (Revised February 2014)
- Supplement
Reinventing Brainlab (B)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Karol Misztal
The management of Germany's Brainlab AG, a leading provider of software-driven oncology and surgery solutions, needs to evaluate strategic options for proceeding without an exclusive hardware partner in its most profitable business segment.
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Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Medical Specialties;
Information Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
Germany
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Karol Misztal. "Reinventing Brainlab (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-054, December 2013. (Revised February 2014.)
- 2013
- Article
Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews
By: Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi and Michael Luca
Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to...
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Safety;
Food;
Governance Compliance;
Mathematical Methods;
Applications and Software;
Public Administration Industry;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Kang, Jun Seok, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi, and Michael Luca. "Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews." Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2013): 1443–1448.
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
people hate entering data, rarely do it accurately, and almost always input data that can't be synthesized in a way that is useful for the manager. Together with a friend, he developed software to solve this problem—while also working...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
environmental, educational, and humanitarian organizations. Microsoft donates almost $300 million annually in software products to nongovernmental organizations around the world. There has to be an internal logic for how these efforts...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
workers trained on such software was taking on work that used to be done in the workshops. The seemingly anecdotal homers encapsulated micro-struggles for recognition, ones in which the identity threats that craftsmen were facing were...
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- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
creation, production, delivery and use of the Web, as well as toward a service delivery infrastructure. Panelist Katie Burke (HBS MBA '95) noted Web-based e-mail as a good example of how and why software is turning into a service....
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