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- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
CEO also has a plan to empower her team. Synthesis uses Agile Action Planning—a trademark of the fast-paced world of software development—to help the CEO create a 90-day plan to achieve a tangible goal, such as having 50 percent of all... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
bids. The API is an automated method for efficient computer-to-computer communications—letting an advertiser use software to manage its account automatically. The AdWords API provides a function whereby an advertiser can retrieve its ads,... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
After resigning last fall, Gorgas joined the board of an accounting software and services company and is now considering other board opportunities. “I was introduced to the talented female CEO of the company by another superstar woman... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
finance software program, "Managing Your Money." For millions of Americans, Andy Tobias has become the funny and friendly advisor they depend on to make sense of the sometimes threatening, often inscrutable worlds of finance and business.... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
where his passion for entrepreneurship was reignited and he founded a software company, Certant, in 1999 after graduation. Shortly thereafter, the dotcom bubble burst and Certant ran out of funding. However, the co-founders and team... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
opportunity enable the rise of new entrants or reinforce the position of incumbents? Research on this classic topic often ignores the high costs of entry seen in some industries. We offer a novel approach to this question in the context of regulated medical technology,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Quelch and Rodriguez wrote a case in May about Philips, which started in 1891 as a light bulb manufacturer in the Netherlands and, more recently, has become a major manufacturer of medical devices and software sold primarily to hospitals.... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
you to raise money, and that would be a big deal." In modern terms, you can observe the same phenomenon in the basement programmer who designs open-source software as a calling card or the blogger who wants to establish herself as an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market. With the shift from hardware to software and services, HCL had slipped behind its Indian competitors and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
business, but we see too many companies adopting "cookie cutter" software packages, and seeking the assistance of facilitators that adopt one-size-fits-all approaches. One has to approach the development and implementation of an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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and 3) our entertaining content (movie characters). Sources: 1. [PwC. (2013). PwC Global 100 Software Leaders. http://www.pwc.com/en_US/us/technology/publications/assets/pwc-global-software-100.pdf"] 2. [Obama, B. (2012). Remarks by the... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
we are going to start with payments." Cook then invited Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services, to the stage to explain how Apple Pay would transform the mobile payments industry. He explained how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
strategy (and some consultants who advise on strategy) is that they assume that once you design strategy it gets executed. They don't look inside the process and realize that it's much more complicated. Bower: It's almost as if they think strategy is like a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
and entrepreneurial skills, Mayor Bloomberg, like his counterparts in other cities, has drawn up a plan to make his city greener. With his PlaNYC, supported by extensive tracking software designed to ensure and monitor efficiencies,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
audience niches that are underserved by the studios,” d’Arbeloff remarks. Thanks to technological advances in moviemaking such as the digital video camera and relatively inexpensive editing software such as Apple’s Final Cut Pro, a... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
and outcomes on a broad scale. Before HBS, Somani spent 10 years in the industry, managing software development teams building machine learning platforms at Oracle and Amazon Alexa. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in EECS from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
to think that bitcoin can disrupt not only major companies like payment processors (more than $400 billion in market cap), remittances companies and financial software providers, but also other non currency–related industries like... View Details