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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
the Semiconductor Industry" (608-001). Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609026 Thoma Bravo—Citect Corporation Take-Private Harvard Business School Case 209-022 In 2006, Citect Corporation, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7 billion in revenues and a market capitalization of $5.1 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
software company Crystal Dynamics before leaving for BMG in 1994. "I'm much more suited to big corporate life," says Zelnick. Analysts predict that digital transmission may cause a major restructuring of the record industry as... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
be, it’s not that a big of a deal to lose one. Satellites are now ‘versioned’ just as software and apps are. That gives companies much more agility, much more ability to experiment. Space companies are starting to look like tech... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
make/buy/partner decisions and membership access. This case examines the strategic and technological issues related to managing SAP's thriving ecosystem of user communities, software vendors, integration partners, and technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
innovations and entrepreneurs in health services to spring up. But we don't. I have an acquaintance, Garrison Bliss, who is a Harvard Medical School doctor, and his brother-in-law is Norman Wu, a software guy who went to the MBA program.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
moment of saying, ‘Every banker’s going to have one of those things,’ ” she says. VisiCalc was presented on an Apple computer, and Dubinsky—not knowing the difference between hardware and software back then—saw the machine’s logo and... View Details
- July 2020
- Teaching Plan
Girls Who Code
By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details
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- 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
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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 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
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
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
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
consider a number of interrelated pricing challenges. Founded in late 2013, PatientPing sold a software platform that allowed health care providers to receive real-time notifications (“Pings”) when one of their patients was admitted to or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream consumers and is leaning towards the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
connecting members. Leaders Need to Show Their (Re)commitment Launch sessions are also an opportunity for leaders to reinforce their commitment to the team. Consider Jennifer Reimert, the leader of a consulting team at Workhuman, a company that develops recognition and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
experience never left Chertavian, who wrote his HBS application essay about starting a school to close what he saw as an “opportunity divide.” After HBS, Chertavian set that goal aside to cofound a successful software firm in England. By... View Details