Applications and Software - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

Protection Bureau with requiring banks to collect and maintain certain data in connection with credit applications made by women- or minority-owned businesses and small... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

28 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

information on sites such as Yelp, eBay, and TripAdvisor. The framework relies on an algorithm set up to tackle bias inherent in reviews by taking into account reviewers who vary in accuracy, stringency, and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

management systems used by direct marketers; software for creating and managing graphics, video, and sound; and convergence technologies such as... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

to the U.S. Spotfire, a software company founded in Sweden, received funding from a venture capitalist who insisted that the company move its operations to the States. I think the market correction in April 2000 was global, View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

browsing, address and date book, and wireless e-mail. Oh, and you can also make phone calls on them. And video will be introduced on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

Companies that outsource merely to shuffle off commodity work to save costs might be missing important opportunities to work with vendors and significantly improve the final product. "When it comes to the outsourcing of many complex... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

one hand, this is not rocket science, and yet you see hundreds of applications not doing well.” Lal’s research delved into five successful mobile money deployments: Telesom ZAAD in Somaliland, Dialog eZ Cash... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

need of a ride. Seventh sensers create communities--“gatelands” with borders--for which they serve as powerful gatekeepers. And they know how to design software that serves as a platform on which other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

"Capital overhang is a big issue that keeps coming up over and over again," said Fergal J. Mullen, a general partner at Highland Capital Partners who focuses on software View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

procedural fairness, and the like are applicable to leaders of any group or organizational unit. In many ways, the ideas regarding how to build commitment and shared... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

hardware or software that filters communications or facilitates their monitoring to a government that is likely to use it for both purposes. For Yahoo and Google, among others, it gets even more complex. It... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

In the online marketplace, oodles of retailers and developers rely on “platforms” such as Amazon.com, the Apple App Store, Facebook, and Twitter to get their products and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

towards empowering employees to be creative and make decisions," which she believes will continue. Penny Cortez thinks that we should see more research on why "bad leadership seems to be more common than good " Illysa would... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

and software programs have been helping teachers better manage their time so that they can spend less energy on administrative work and more on teaching. "This is probably... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

shifted his research to project finance, one of the hottest applications of leveraged finance today. "The projects I study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm,"... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

terms. The technical problem is that any two applications are virtually guaranteed to contain dissimilar data and execute dissimilar business processes. One might store dates as DD/MM/YYYY View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

25 Apr 2012
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How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

business analysts who "tend to be lower level employees and have a high turnover," creating a "losing battle" through the loss of "institutional data knowledge." (Kim Kraemer) Avoid the belief that "whatever is new will solve their... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

What do Stella McCartney, Apple, Netflix, and Wal-Mart have in common? They were all subjects of the most popular episodes of Harvard Business School's Cold Call podcast in the last year. Twice monthly, host View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

02 May 2012
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Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

industry in general fails in: (1) catering to customer desires for short courses that produce quick results, (2) emphasizing, and training for, ways of gaining self-knowledge, (3) providing laboratories for the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 Feb 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

out the application in pencil to please an Army buddy when we were stationed in Europe, and my grade record at a little college in Iowa didn’t warrant admission anyway. Then I got his seat in the Stanford... View Details