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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
hearts. That is what health tech entrepreneur turned public leader Todd Park said, and I agree. Hire people with a set of modern skills around user-centered design, product management, UX and UI, or software engineering, and who have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209012 TCS: The MCA 21 Project Harvard Business School Case 609-024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
“Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress,” coauthors Professor Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner look at Israel in 2020, when the demand for software engineers was endless, while many of the 3,000... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
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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
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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
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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
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
city from scratch. The collaboration involved software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, builders, and technology corporations. Examining the work, norms, and values in each of these... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
between two competing investments, which differ in size, maturity, and rate of return. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207066 Lean at Wipro Technologies Harvard Business School Case 607-032 Wipro Technologies, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
software cases (and in the process, helped shore up his traditional academic credentials). And not least, Sahlman persuaded both Tom Gregory and Mitch Kapor—the heads of Ovation and Lotus, respectively—to come to class when their cases... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
anecdotes illuminate technical concepts. A natural teacher, King emphasizes that complex software is unnecessary for success in this field. Readers will find real-life examples that help put statistical concepts into an understandable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
Internet; it's all digital goods or digitizable goods. The same is true of media retailers, games retailers, software retailers. Alvarez: If you're being digitized or people just aren't buying your categories anymore, then you just have... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18
However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
company. The company specialized in providing its clients with software used for transaction processing and risk management in various commodity markets. Triple Point Technology had grown substantially in its 13 years of existence and was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
worldwide for exquisite design of consumer electronics products, strives to better integrate software design into its traditional physical product design processes to meet the demands of a post-iPod world. Details the Bang & Olufsen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
doesn’t necessarily mean having a global presence. Farrington’s StarVest Partners, for example, focuses on emerging enterprise software, a niche without significant foreign competitors. Nonetheless, the firm tracks foreign software... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
lead time has been reduced from eight to three weeks. Now we’re competitive at a completely different level.” The Future Is Now Between 1992 and 2000, manufacturing accounted for 22 percent of U.S. economic growth (28 percent if software... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
specialized). We also examine whether team familiarity—team members' prior experience working with one another—helps teams to better manage challenges created by task changes and greater interpersonal team diversity. Using detailed project—and individual—level data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne