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  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

Inc., the world's largest design software company, decided to engage in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for the design and construction of its new Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Solutions (AECS) Group headquarters near... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

not enough if we want a competitive advantage. In Smarter Together, Coupa Software CEO Rob Bernshteyn explains how we will soon be able to draw upon the intelligence of the community—collectively what we, and the organizations we work... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Business School Case 817-051 Bootstrapping at Lightricks By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team of 30, earned a revenue run... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

databases). We also show that it reveals the main "flow of control" within the architecture, as denoted by the classification of components into Core, Peripheral, Shared, and Control elements. We analyze the cost of change for a subset of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

software in private fixed investment in the United States. We argue that these findings point to a large potential undercounting of "digital dark matter" and related IT spillovers from university and federal funding. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

to their reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like an extended family, invested years of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

The Way You See It

between the software giant and its closest challenger, IBM, while younger alumni put Microsoft well ahead of Big Blue.) It was IBM that first gave business "the ability to process information that has transformed the world," one... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Massachusetts, is assessing its investment in Tableau, a data visualization company. Tableau, which conducted an IPO a few years ago, has been experiencing substantial growth as it aims at disrupting the business intelligence software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

Yammer's scalability, software development, and organizational culture. David Sacks, CEO of Yammer, debated the challenges and opportunities related to competition, product, and culture as he thought about the offer on the table. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B) Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Kyle T. DohertyHarvard Business School Supplement 911-061 The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

The Business of Love

companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
  • 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
  • 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