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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer.” “While the technology is technically transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer.” A big part of what makes these systems work is that the code itself is transparent, so you can trust the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
software and services company. The CRC is not her first startup: in 1986 Darwall cofounded ViewStar Corporation, a software company serving Fortune 500 clients that was eventually acquired by Mosaix. At the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the security software company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office suite of products, Ballmer dismissed the challengers as caring more about altruism than profit. He insisted there will continue to be demand for Microsoft software that delivers feature-rich... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
history. For two days in late May, representatives from the School’s extensive network of alumni clubs convened on campus to exchange ideas, participate in case discussions with faculty, and learn about AlumniMagnet, a new community-building View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
call center, although he had little to do with the invention of the telephone or computer. Financial and software firms will probably end up paying this fellow several billion dollars in royalties. Fighting his lawsuits would not only be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
encourage investment in the energy sector would also boost competitiveness. What are attractive investment opportunities in India? Sectors that require technical and labor-intensive input, such as software services, business process... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
software and approach to organization-wide data management and integration. “We help organizations develop a holistic view of their customers and operations by tracking and analyzing data gathered at multiple contact points, including... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
of the World Wide Web, closed out the conference. Acknowledging that "we haven't yet made an information sandbox," he said that the Internet is still at a primitive stage where information does not yet flow freely enough, due in part to View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
of electronic medical records, which make patient information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model, which makes it difficult for information stored on one... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
Chicago. About this program When most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But going blind in his early 20’s didn’t stop him from living. Becoming an avid coder, he built View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
underground hacker marketplaces. Credit card numbers—from premium cards, some offered with money-back guarantees if they don’t work—go for as little as $9. That’s just one segment of a booming hacker market: Attempts to knock a particular website offline can cost... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
approach to order fulfillment is based on the disarming efficiency of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots. When orders are received, the robots are directed by a complex software application to find and retrieve the desired... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
School - both in and out of the classroom - to fit his professional goals. For instance, as one of ten HBS students chosen for the Kauffman Entrepreneur Internship Program, he spent last summer in India at Aditi Technologies, a software... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
which he had moved for an earlier job. As a financial consultant, he assisted start-ups and performers such as Seals & Crofts, ZZ Top, and Larry Gatlin. In 1991, he and a partner founded a market research firm — the business is now called Research.Net, Inc. — focused... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
and withhold by exception.” Have private-sector firms undergone similarly rapid, wholesale reinvention? I would say that IBM’s transformation under Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65), with its shift from hardware to software and services, is an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
precious,” says Khan, who focuses primarily on software. “It’s been an incredible segment to invest in over the last few years—cloud software in particular, because these are high-gross margin businesses with low costs and long, recurring... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Abercrombie (MBA 1993) was working for a leading educational software publisher outside of Los Angeles. New research on early brain development inspired her and the company’s chief technology officer’s interest in developing learning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
coverage leads to better results, Clark says, and a greater likelihood of a city renewing its subscription. The ShotSpotter process begins with a gunshot, which activates its audio sensors. Data is sent to a cloud-based software system,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
Silicon Valley a natural fit. It’s a path that worked quite nicely for Thomas, who eventually rose to vice president of marketing at SuccessFactors, a software firm focused on employee performance and strategy solutions. Then, in 1995,... View Details