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  • September – October 2009
  • Article

Critical Decisions in Software Development: Updating the State of the Practice

By: Alan MacCormack, Michael A. Cusumano, Chris Kemerer and Bill Crandall
This article focuses on how to choose the "right" software development process, how to structure global software design chains, how to manage the interaction of project structure and software design, and how to balance innovation and efficiency in a software business. View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Product Development; Projects; Innovation and Management; Performance Efficiency; Information Technology Industry
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  • March 1998 (Revised February 2001)
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PlanetAll

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
PlanetAll is a Web-based contact manager that automatically updates users' contact information. In early 1998, the young company must decide whether to compete with large Web sites and become a destination site or to become an enabling technology for other contact... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Business Startups; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

BOOK: Ruling the Waves

by Debora L. Spar (Harcourt) In her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, HBS professor Debora Spar looks back over the centuries and examines how revolutionary technologies, including the telegraph, radio,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. This book assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public health to illustrate how each side can inform and benefit the other. Through contemporary examples... View Details
  • October 18, 2021
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To Regulate Network-Based Platforms, Look at Their Data

By: Chiara Farronato and Daniel Björkegren
Historically, antitrust authorities have taken a laissez-faire approach under the assumption that it is better to err on the side of not intervening when there is uncertainty. This has allowed companies like Google and Facebook to go on a shopping spree to acquire... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust Issues And Policies; Risk and Uncertainty; Digital Platforms; Competitive Advantage; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, teaches the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior. His research explores issues related to institutional change, innovation, industry and technology evolution,... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC), parent company of MedKaz, was... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Drilling Down

The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
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Emerging Market/Frontier Market Fellowship Resources

worldwide from Euromonitor International. EMIS (Emerging Markets Information System) - Current country and company information emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. Use country-specific... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Greece

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Greece? Industry and market research Passport Click on Search on the upper left side of the... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2012
  • News

Fashion-Forward

information for industry executives and fashionistas alike. Amed, who made British GQ’s list of the 100 most influential men in Britain in 2011, attributes much of that success to the relationships he... View Details
Keywords: fashion; apparel; Information; Information; Information; Information
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Turkey

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Turkey? Industry and market research Passport Click on Search on the upper left side of the main screen... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion: South Korea

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about South Korea? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related View Details
  • August 1994
  • Case

Intuit, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
The merger of two computer software firms with very rapidly growing non-overlapping products makes great strategic sense, but presents difficult valuation and accounting problems. How can a firm pay $225 million to acquire another firm with negligible current earnings,... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Applications and Software; Accounting; Financial Strategy; Goodwill Accounting; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • July 2009
  • Teaching Note

Microsoft's Search (TN)

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Eric J. Van den Steen
Teaching Note for [709461]. View Details
Keywords: Competition; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Markets; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

A Classics Enterprise

Robert Strassler (MBA ’61), a self-described “scholar without credentials,” worked for seven years on his own dime to produce an unlikely 1996 bestseller: The Landmark Thucydides, a reader-friendly version of the Greek philosopher’s famously dense and convoluted... View Details
Keywords: ancient Greece; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)
  • September 1996 (Revised June 1998)
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InterSoft of Argentina (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Stacy Palestrant
Focuses on InterSoft of Argentina, a growing software company in Argentina. In 1993, InterSoft acquires a Russian software company and Emilo Lopez, the vice president and director of InterSoft's Systems Software Lab, must manage a creative, cross-cultural, "virtual"... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology Industry; Argentina; Russia
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  • October 1998 (Revised March 2004)
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Spotfire: Managing a Multinational Start-Up

Spotfire, a software start-up, must address the question of dividing its effort between Sweden and the United States in addition to raising venture capital, obtaining new customers, and managing early-stage growth. View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; United States; Sweden
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Thailand

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Thailand? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Taipei to help me with FIELD Global Immersion? Industry and market research Passport Useful... View Details