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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
and withhold by exception.” Have private-sector firms undergone similarly rapid, wholesale reinvention? I would say that IBM’s transformation under Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65), with its shift from hardware to software and services, is an... View Details
- July 2020
- Technical Note
Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force
By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal
This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Australia; North and Central America; United States; Illinois; Chicago; California; San Francisco
Narayandas, Das, Michael Norris, and Amram Migdal. "Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force." Harvard Business School Technical Note 521-019, July 2020.
- June 2020 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
TraceTogether
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore’s... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "TraceTogether." Harvard Business School Case 820-111, June 2020. (Revised January 2024.)
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Abercrombie (MBA 1993) was working for a leading educational software publisher outside of Los Angeles. New research on early brain development inspired her and the company’s chief technology officer’s interest in developing learning... 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
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
determined, from undefined to defined. We describe two basic forms of closure in the innovation process: forced closure and crystallization. We consider also situations in which products are "never finished," as when a software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
world's leading data storage hardware and information management software company. EMC's customers had historically relied on EMC salespeople to guide them through the complex, consultative buying process. However, with the rise of social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
customer orientation across an organization. That involves senior leadership. Q: Has technology or the advent of the Web had an impact on the order management cycle? Rangan: No question. Software vendors Seibel, Oracle, and others have... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
public use—major new products of either consumer electronics or computer hardware with their essential software technologies. In the United States, no enterprise had the capability to commercialize new consumer electronics technologies.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer environment that produced HBS's first... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Comparative Treatment of Business Method and Software Patents in the United States and European Union Harvard Business School Note 309-023 This note analyses and compares the legal definitions and practical applications of Business Method... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
mounting, and several, like HTC, are already pursuing second generation tetherless VR technology. As Wang seeks to develop the ecosystem by partnering with developers, creating a content platform, investing in VR startups, and launching VR arcades, she must decide the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
the solution. However, commercializing the innovation may also stretch his organization too thin and bring his team into a business, the software industry, completely foreign to them. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Exercise 408-076 Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed software to help minimize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
much as you play. There are podcasts and videos by poker coaches; then there are poker solvers and software where you can analyze what you would do in every single situation. There are so many permutations of what can happen that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
an off-the-shelf software system that will work for most of their purposes,” he says. “In our case, we had to design one from the ground up.” The customized system allows SmartPak to adapt its process on an as-needed basis. For example,... View Details