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Software Tools Software Environments via Conda 61ms Conda is a general-purpose, cross-platform package manager written in Python and developed by Continuum Analytics. HBSGrid administrators use conda to... View Details

2008
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Bargains-then-ripoffs: Innovation, Pricing and Lock-in in Enterprise Software

By: Ian Larkin

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Software; Information Technology

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2007
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Bargains-then-ripoffs: Innovation, Pricing and Lock-in in Enterprise Software

By: Ian I. Larkin

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October 1983 (Revised May 1986)
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Newtoys, Inc.: New Product Problem (B), Software Case

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19 Aug 2019
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Is Your Collaboration Software Productive, or Just Chatter?

25 Mar 2018
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When consumer packaged goods start acting like software

November/December 2003
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Software Development Worldwide: The State of the Practice

By: Michael A. Cusumano, Alan David MacCormack, Chris Kemerer and Bill Crandall

Keywords: Applications and Software; Research and Development; Practice

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24 Jan 2008
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The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Video Game; Web Services

05 Oct 2017
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Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

manufacturing and industrial space. A recurring theme among them was the way in which each had led their companies through massive technological changes, with everything from automation to analytics and software systems implementation.... View Details

Keywords: Technology

16 Jul 2009
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Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti; Video Game; Web Services

February 2007 (Revised September 2008)
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CMM versus Agile: Methodology Wars in Software Development

A CIO decides whether to adopt the "Capability Maturity Model" (CMM) within her IT department. The decision is proving surprisingly controversial; some of her best developers prefer adopting an "agile" methodological approach instead. Compares and contrasts the CMM and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Development; Business Processes; Information Technology; Applications and Software

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April 2014
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The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales

By: Ian Larkin

This paper investigates the pricing distortions that arise from the use of a common non-linear incentive scheme at a leading enterprise software vendor. The empirical results demonstrate that salespeople are adept at gaming the timing of deal closure to take advantage... View Details