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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Launch Lab/Capstone 1 Course Number 5241 Adjunct Professor Alan MacCormack Russell J Wilcox January; J; 3.0 credits November kickoff (9am – 5pm) January 12-23, 2026 Location to be... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
the reduction in store size was associated with TFP of retail chains falling by 0.4% per annum, or 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. China's Growing IT Services and Software Industry: Challenges and Implications... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Winter 2013
- Article
Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability
By: Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer and Edward J. Riedl
This study examines whether mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008),... View Details
Keywords: IFRS; Comparability; Private Information; Insider Trading; Ethics; Standards; Financial Statements
Brochet, Francois, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl. "Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability." Contemporary Accounting Research 30, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 1373–1400.
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Movies That Move People
Alan Horn (MBA 1971) is chairman of the Walt Disney Studios and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, he talks about how the company’s films have the potential to influence audiences worldwide. “Every... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Participants assigned to recall a purchase made for someone else reported feeling significantly happier immediately after this recollection; most importantly, the happier participants felt, the more likely they were to choose to spend a windfall on someone else in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
Managing Product Development in Rapidly Changing Environments
A consistent finding in many studies of innovation is the repeated failure of established firms when faced with radical changes in their core markets or technologies. Professor MacCormack's research takes the view that many of these failures can be attributed to the... View Details
- June 2006
- Teaching Note
D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer (TN)
Keywords: Computer Industry
- April 2006
- Background Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 1: Innovation and Uncertainty
Describes the first module of a Harvard Business School 30-session elective course called Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The... View Details
Keywords: Design; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management; Projects; Opportunities; Perspective
MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 1: Innovation and Uncertainty." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-125, April 2006.
- March 2006
- Background Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Course Overview Note
The Harvard Business School Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes multiple levels of analysis--from creating and executing... View Details
Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management; Projects; Opportunities; Perspective; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk and Uncertainty; Problems and Challenges; Managerial Roles
MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Course Overview Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-105, March 2006.
- March 2006
- Module Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World
Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course... View Details
- April 2002 (Revised April 2002)
- Teaching Note
A Note on Organizational Design at Yahoo! TN
Teaching Note for (9-602-112). Includes color exhibits. View Details
- September 2001 (Revised March 2006)
- Teaching Note
Microsoft Office 2000 TN
Teaching Note for (9-600-023), (9-600-097), and (9-600-502). View Details
- 2021
- Other Unpublished Work
Computer-Implemented Methods and Systems for Measuring, Estimating, and Managing Economic Outcomes and Technical Debt in Software Systems and Projects: US Patent 11,126,427 B2
By: Daniel J. Sturtevant, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Sunny Ahn and Sean Gilliland
An interrelated set of tools and methods is disclosed for: (1) measuring the relationship between software source code attributes (such as code quality, design quality, test quality, and complexity metrics) and software economics outcome metrics (such as... View Details
Sturtevant, Daniel J., Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Sunny Ahn, and Sean Gilliland. "Computer-Implemented Methods and Systems for Measuring, Estimating, and Managing Economic Outcomes and Technical Debt in Software Systems and Projects: US Patent 11,126,427 B2." Cambridge, MA, September 2021.
- May 2006
- Teaching Note
Reinventing the Automobile: General Motors' AUTOnomy Project (TN)
Keywords: Auto Industry
- April 2006
- Supplement
Microsoft.NET User Scenario Video Clips
MacCormack, Alan D. "Microsoft.NET User Scenario Video Clips." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 606-705, April 2006.
- March 2002 (Revised March 2006)
- Teaching Note
Space Data Corporation TN
Teaching Note for (9-602-121). View Details
- January 2002 (Revised March 2006)
- Teaching Note
The Rise and Fall of Iridium, The (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-601-040). View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Industry
- November 2001
- Supplement
A Note on Organizational Design at Yahoo!
Supplements Yahoo! Business on Internet Time. View Details
MacCormack, Alan D. "A Note on Organizational Design at Yahoo!" Harvard Business School Supplement 602-112, November 2001.
- June 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Supplement
Microsoft Office 2000
Presents interviews with Microsoft Office employees. View Details
MacCormack, Alan D. "Microsoft Office 2000." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 600-502, June 2000. (Revised December 2000.)