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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Boston-based team or perhaps establishing hybrid clusters in a few hub cities. Beyond the cost-savings of not paying rent, a remote-first approach would allow OnRamp to hire the best talent, wherever they live. That’s significant in a sector where the quality of your... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Paola Lara
Paola Lara studied software engineering for a simple reason: “I thought it was the future of the world.” But once she immersed herself in the industry, Paola “realized I didn’t want to be programming the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
visibility, to a network of peers. Many of them felt isolated.” Amadio sensed these challenges were not unique to neuroscience startups, and he began looking at the consumer software sector to see how innovation there seemed to happen so... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 17 Mar 2016
- News
The 124-Year-Old Startup
in the internet of “really big things”—think locomotives and jet engines. Attracting software engineers to a company known for making microwaves was a challenge, but the company’s “What’s the Matter with... View Details
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Joe Blair
tech startup. Joe graduated with a B.S. and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Joe's Master’s Thesis was building software to control plasma... View Details
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Janelle McDonald
personal risks. Initially trained as a systems engineer concentrating in computer science, she started her career as a software developer and later became intrigued with consulting. “I liked the variety of... View Details
Carissa Bryce Christensen
Carissa Bryce Christensen is the founder and CEO of BryceTech LLC, an analytics and engineering firm serving clients with deep tech-enabled missions, including NASA and the US Department of Defense. Known for driving strategy with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
In a few years there will be no such thing as an e-business," says Vivek Y.Ranadivé (MBA 1983). As founder, chairman, and CEO of Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software, Inc., (www.tibco.com) it would seem that Ranadivé is predicting the demise of his own company. Among other... View Details
Benjamin Ha
Ben currently is the managing partner of Photon Venture Partners, an early-stage investor in artificial intelligence software and hardware as well as deep tech startups. Prior to founding Photon Venture Partners, he has led investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
says. “We want to make it easier for software engineers to use these machines and to get good results from them, even when they’re still in this early stage.” The goal is to help R&D departments get a taste... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California. Berkeley, CA. Deborah C. Wright, AB ’79, MBA/JD ’84. President and CEO, Carver Bancorp., Inc. New York, NY. James V. Baker, AB... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
services and software space has been consistently strong. Students are also joining technology companies that overlap in retail, heath care, and other direct to consumer industries as they find roles in companies that align directly with... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Peek into Business | MBA
definition of "business" and consider how understanding it can be valuable—from a strawberry farmer managing supply chains to a food scientist meeting market demands, or a software engineer designing... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
Microsoft at the personal finance software game. And it has done so by hiring software engineers that are hard to find in Silicon Valley—those who actually like to design... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
engineer, worked as process engineer at ArcelorMittal where her daily vocabulary included terms like ‘electrogalvanizing’ and ‘laser flatness’, while Adam, who holds an AB and MS in English and is a self-taught coder, worked in various... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA, smart mobile phone, and digital... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
Khare. Indeed, he came to business only after he added to his undergraduate engineering major at the University of Pennsylvania by enrolling in the Wharton School's five-year, dual-degree program in management and technology. "I saw... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
advertisers, historical and real-time traffic information to insurance underwriters, and more. Mistele was a Detroit kid, the son of a lawyer, who had an early interest in technology. “When I was in high school, I worked for an electrical View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
Although Asian countries have been able to use cost advantages and software coding prowess to attract outsource business from around the world, the region is quickly moving up the value chain to challenge America's leadership in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case By: Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan Abstract—Employing software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne