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- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
improve the green workplace by providing job training, “a Coursera for solar,” as Sam described it. Like many small businesses, though, the founders’ appreciation of the customer-product fit evolved. Today, the company’s website describes it as “a View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
made for me: This person had to have studied either computer science or electrical engineering and have a JD and an MBA. They had to have worked at a big software company and a successful startup. The kicker was they had to speak...
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April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
tough challenge. As the tools get better and cheaper, it’s not enough to just crank out products with them. You have to add value in other ways, maybe with differentiating software or wrap-around services, or you have to move upstream to...
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- 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.)
- June 2000 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Microsoft Office 2000
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Describes the history of Microsoft's Office product suite. Discusses evolution of the Office 2000 project. Set at the end of the project when Steven Sinofsky, Office vice president, must decide upon the direction for the next version of Office, as well as make changes...
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Applications and Software;
Product Development;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Change;
Innovation and Management;
Information Technology Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Microsoft Office 2000." Harvard Business School Case 600-097, June 2000. (Revised June 2000.)
- September 1998 (Revised August 1999)
- Case
Walnut Venture Associates (B): RBS Due Diligence--Customers
Supplements the (A) case.
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Venture Capital;
Business Plan;
Research;
Entrepreneurship;
Applications and Software;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry
Roberts, Michael J. "Walnut Venture Associates (B): RBS Due Diligence--Customers." Harvard Business School Case 899-063, September 1998. (Revised August 1999.)
- May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Vermeer Technologies (D): Making Transitions
By: Ashish Nanda
Microsoft has acquired Vermeer, and Vermeer executives are both excited and concerned as they prepare to move to Redmond. Even though the acquisition has been financially rewarding, the Vermeer engineers worry how well they will adapt to their new home. Meanwhile,...
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Horizontal Integration;
Value Creation;
Applications and Software;
Acquisition;
Product Development;
Information Technology Industry
Nanda, Ashish, and Georgia Levenson. "Vermeer Technologies (D): Making Transitions." Harvard Business School Case 397-082, May 1997. (Revised July 1997.)
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate its application to a sample of...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
approach to order fulfillment is based on the disarming efficiency of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots. When orders are received, the robots are directed by a complex software application to find and retrieve the desired...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
School - both in and out of the classroom - to fit his professional goals. For instance, as one of ten HBS students chosen for the Kauffman Entrepreneur Internship Program, he spent last summer in India at Aditi Technologies, a software...
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Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
source software (OSS) over proprietary software in an attempt to reduce costs creating an unexpected demand shock for OSS. Analysis using the rest of the EU as controls via difference-in-differences and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- February 2022
- Teaching Note
Borusan CAT: Monetizing Prediction in the Age of AI
By: Navid Mojir
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-053.
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- July 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Microsoft: Multimedia Publications (B)
By: Marco Iansiti and Ellen Stein
Microsoft is about to release an apparently successful CD-ROM baseball product. The company is trying to determine what product(s) should be developed next, how it should organize itself, and what role it should play in the development of such products.
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Product Development;
Applications and Software;
Product Design;
Organizational Structure;
Product Launch;
Business Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Washington (state, US)
Iansiti, Marco, and Ellen Stein. "Microsoft: Multimedia Publications (B)." Harvard Business School Case 695-006, July 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
- 11 May 2017
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Microsoft
organization in three to five sentences.On the surface, and to many, we are simply a well-known software company creating some of the best products on the market. However, since I have been working here, it has become clear to me that we...
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Technology
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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
in both early-stage and mature firms in a variety of industries including consulting, consumer products, education, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, military, publishing, retail, robotics, software development, and space...
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
"Get it right the first time." On the other hand, some software development processes are designed nowadays so that they can be reconfigured cheaply and quickly. Developers generate new versions of a View Details
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Becoming a Consulting Expert
failure. Consulting isn’t about learning everything there is to know about every company or industry you work for; it is about quickly understanding the KEY aspects of the business that will allow you to make informed recommendations to the client. It’s the same reason...
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Consulting
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
technology that would adapt to my playing style in real time instead of forcing me to fit a recording." Chao was right. She found former concert oboist Christopher Raphael, now chair of computer science at Indiana University, who was using predictive modeling to code...
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- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
university campuses, or amusement parks. “Forget the guideways, forget the stations, just do it all with software,” Alden explained. “Basically, software is replacing all this infrastructure.’ As investors show interest, the 84-year-old...
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- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Here then are our most-read stories in 2006. Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive dynamics of the software wars between...
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by Sean Silverthorne