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19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

27 May 2009
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especially when operating in "lower income" countries. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509048 Sanctuary Soft, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 409-104 A U.S.-based security View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2006
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How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

annoyed and annoyed and annoyed, and one day you do something about it. Eric Raymond, of open source fame, calls this "scratching an itch." (Open source software development started out as a form of user innovation, but it's now... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

differed from the conditions she had encountered at Palm Inc., which she had joined in 1992 (following a decade in the computer and software industries), just after the company was founded to develop handheld computing devices. Like E... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

March 1999
Case

MySoftware Company (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Nicole Tempest

In 1997, Gregory Slayton took the position as CEO of MySoftware, which had been experiencing revenue and operating losses for the past two years. Within 90 days, he stabilized the company through a combination of cost cutting, financial discipline, and accountability... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Cost Management; Profit; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Outcome or Result; Partners and Partnerships; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry

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31 Jul 2012
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resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal hierarchy. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812134-PDF-ENG RentJuice Thomas R.Eisenmann and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 811-069 RentJuice, founded in mid-2008, provided a subscription View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

institutional voids—in service of businesses or as stand-alone projects. Microsoft's investments in the development of China's software industry facilitated the development of its own business in the country. The job creation and tax... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book and put them in a bar. Let them... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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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

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Devices: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Regulators and Innovators By: Gordon, William J., and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract— Software has become an increasingly important component of medical device technology. Through legislation like... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

BrightStar. As franchises began to sell, Sun quickly set about building scalable operations and infrastructure, including a centralized technology function and custom software for franchisees. As more and more locations opened around the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg

In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details

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05 Feb 2013
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Infosys and its iconic co-founder, N.R. Narayana Murthy, were admired and respected for delivering excellence while conducting business in a legal, transparent, and ethical manner. It was one of the few software companies that recognized... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2011
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investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2009
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http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209036 Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-055 Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new competition from Google and Apple.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

idea,’” Tseng recalls his older brother, Ryan, telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

HBS IT if the functionality of a backup is needed (HBS members only). HBS IT regularly scans the research storage areas for viruses as a part of the Harvard University security policy. Normally viruses are quarantined or removed via antivirus View Details

28 May 2019
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innovative tools that help them explore, learn, and create. And teachers can better identify when a student might need a little extra help,” says Sara Kloek, director of education policy at the Software & Information Industry Association.... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

27 Sep 2011
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effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in the presence of clustering.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Creative Educational Software Development Program Innovation IT Operations, which includes: Infrastructure Support Media Services Technology Consulting Technology Services for Faculty, MBA Students, Executive Education Participants, and... View Details

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Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

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How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

MySoftware Company (A)

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Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

Not Throwing Away My Shot

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School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

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Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

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