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Gaming: statistics
Where can I find information on gaming hardware and software? The Entertainment Software Association website lists sales, demographic, and usage data, as well as information intended to improve the image of the industry. Search eMarketer...
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Simi Oyesanya
Simi most recently worked in Tech Growth Equity at General Atlantic where she was a Senior Associate. Prior to that she worked in Venture Capital and was an Associate at McKinsey. In her first year she recruited for internships in investment management securing offers...
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Jeremy Sasson
With a father and three uncles in the Bay Area software industry, Jeremy Sasson witnessed entrepreneurship firsthand. “They did a lot flying by the seat of their pants,” he says. “My father stressed to me: If I ever had an opportunity to...
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Tech
- 01 Mar 2012
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Making Finance Personal
organizing household finances, in 1983 Cook cofounded Intuit with the novel idea of producing—as it did with Quicken, its initial offering, and later with its acquisition of TurboTax—financial software as a consumer-oriented,...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
THE CHALLENGE: Ana Shukla shares advice on securing venture capital. Karen Kerrigan and Brigitte Baumann (far left, center) stressed the importance of mentors and networks. As a first-time entrepreneur, Ana Shukla launched a marketing-automation View Details
- March 1997 (Revised April 2001)
- Supplement
Microsoft in the People's Republic of China: 1998 Update
By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle J. Melito
Provides an update to Microsoft in the People's Republic of China--1993.
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Applications and Software;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Information Technology Industry;
China
Khanna, Tarun, and Danielle J. Melito. "Microsoft in the People's Republic of China: 1998 Update." Harvard Business School Supplement 797-107, March 1997. (Revised April 2001.)
Joseph M. Segel
A prolific entrepreneur, Segel has founded many successful companies including The Franklin Mint and National Software testing Laboratories. His biggest success was the formation of QVC, which stands for quality, value and convenience....
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
William H. Gates III
to IBM’s. In 1987, Gates revolutionized the computer market again with the introduction of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface, which made the IBM PC and compatibles user-friendly. With $16.7 billion in revenues in 1998, Microsoft is the world’s #1 View Details
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Computers & Electronics
Fred M. Gibbons
Gibbons was one of the early pioneers in the software development industry. While working at Hewlett-Packard, he developed the Pfs:file software suite which enabled Apple Computer users to manage a host of...
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Computers & Electronics
Martha R. Ingram
After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram Industries and Ingram...
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Services
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Groups in Decentralized Organizations (revised) Authors:Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-090.pdf Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Software 806-121 Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or open...
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Sean Silverthorne
David Duffield
After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative software for managing human resource...
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Computers & Electronics
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Designing Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
simulation software to inform business model choices, and gain practice with organization design methods to diagnose misalignment and resolve tradeoffs (e.g. efficiency vs. effectiveness, decision speed vs. quality). Enrollment is limited...
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Scott D. Cook | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
that the new personal computers people had just begun to purchase in significant numbers could be put to vital, everyday use. Scott recognized the strong potential market for basic software that would help people pay their bills quickly...
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- 10 Jan 2017
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A Side of Data with Your Dinner
Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.” His frustration led to the 1999...
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- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
(photo by Neal Hamberg) Ask Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) about StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, and he’s more than happy to talk about his thriving software company, which deploys video and scanning technologies to stop retail theft. The...
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Margie Kelley
- winter 2007
- Article
Oracle vs. PeopleSoft: A Case Study
By: D. Millstone and Guhan Subramanian
Millstone, D., and Guhan Subramanian. "Oracle vs. PeopleSoft: A Case Study." Harvard Negotiation Law Review (winter 2007).
- 02 May 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Hindu/Muslim conflict. Designed for each computer to be shared by two to three students, the children work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. “The stories that have come back are incredible,” Mendhro says. “One of the Hindu children told us his...
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- 02 Sep 2014
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Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
military, and consulting settings, Huckman has backed intuition with hard data. In a software services firm, for example, he found that when familiarity increased by 50 percent, defects decreased by 19 percent and deviations from budget...
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