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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
number of niche firms for long, sustained periods of time. In the software industry, a large number of niche players have endured for many years, constantly generating a variety of product innovations. Despite the contraction caused by... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
setup is as unobtrusive as sitting in front of a computer monitor. Eye movements are captured by an optical sensor using infrared light reflected off the cornea. When his advisor at Michigan showed him a huge dataset collected from... View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a real-world market investment View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
horizon, implying that growth is less risky than value at long horizons. Investors with access to bills and bonds exhibit similar behavior when value and growth tilts are computed relative to the total equity allocation of the portfolio.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
algorithms that have been supercharged with more data and computing power, she says. “It’s not that they aren’t accomplishing interesting things—they are,” she notes. “But they’re not doing it in a way that your brain does it. So the next... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
percent is spent on labor. Those factors inspired Andersen to found Augean Robotics (AGR), makers of an autonomous farm robot called Burro, which has the carrying capacity of a sure-footed donkey and the smarts of a deep-learning computer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
lot of time exploring the universe on my computer, and am familiar with the best software and its applications. The story retrieval application in Stories (alumni.hbs.edu/stories) is automation at its best! I know that—in managing this... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
research. “If we could measure those signs accurately, we could treat these diseases earlier, before significant damage has taken place in the brain.” NeuraMetrix’s early studies have shown it can detect Parkinson’s, says Samzelius. To use it, a person installs... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Oded Navon
me realize that I wanted to specialize in something where I could have more control over the result and create things that would impact many people all at once. So, I dove into another passion of mine – computers – and went on to become a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
internet was in the computer lab,” Marwell says, “and it was really hard for teachers to integrate technology into their curriculums.” While the American economy was being transformed by 21st-century high-speed internet, Wi-Fi, and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
They changed their tune and soon dominated the market. Turns out, it’s much more about understanding the workflow in a small business, and computers do only what you tell them to do. And, many times, it’s really the business that has... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
identified patients for clinical research. During his Blavatnik Fellowship, he will focus on the development and commercialization of Trove Health’s core software platform, which is harnessing technology to solve the immense challenge... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
employees are working in remote or hybrid environments far from the eyes of watchful supervisors. Attempts to reassert the “butts in seats” metric by using awareness technology software to measure computer... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
CSG Systems International, a Denver software publisher. “I realized there that my understanding of economics, finance, and other business disciplines was limited,” Feagler notes, explaining his decision to apply to HBS. “Earning an MBA... View Details
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
aspect. But as Tim Cook wrote in his letter, jeopardizing customer security is a slippery slope. Q: So is the cost not just to Apple but to the e-commerce industry prohibitive here? A: It’s a strange situation from Apple’s point of view. They’ve told their engineers to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
less, attractive. Hardware and software are complements. So are hot dogs and mustard, cars and car loans, cable television and TV Guide, the Internet and high-capacity digital phone lines, catalogues and overnight delivery services - even... 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
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
findings imply that firm oversight is important during market booms, just when stock prices suggest all is well. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovMisFirms_v39.pdf Visualizing and Measuring Software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne