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- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
and partners about their technologies can increase innovation and speed the introduction of new products. Specifically, the study finds evidence that openness—in this case, via the use of open-source View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
Entrepreneurship, Wu speaks with entrepreneurs and advocates for both open-source and closed-source innovation, noting the enduring impact of community-built open-source View Details
Keywords: April White
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
NGOs, and business associations in order to understand the challenges from multiple perspectives: psychology, sociology, law, and insurance. The group used these insights to create an open-source online guidebook. TurkFurnit translated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
idea is that there are some problems that require collective input and cumulative knowledge-building. Open-source communities are a very powerful way to get that done. We used to think that software had to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
employees being victimized? In this video podcast, Professor Josh Lerner looks at historical trends and current deals to put it all in perspective. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5577.html. The Business of Free Software Large IT vendors... View Details
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which builds View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
you to raise money, and that would be a big deal." In modern terms, you can observe the same phenomenon in the basement programmer who designs open-source software as a calling card or the blogger who... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
conducted, and developing platforms to promote digital reading. “It’s stunning that we still read so much on paper,” said Ballmer. In addition, the company will push forward with major efforts to build its online search and advertising businesses. Despite the buzz... View Details
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
other programs to transcribe audio. Additional free speech to text apps include: Google Gboard Just Press Record Speechnotes Transcribe Windows 10 Speech recognition The Dragon series by Nuance : software providing audio to text services.... 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
- 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
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
each year for team-building events, and the support of the latest and best communications technology. Just how large an organization can get while still being managed remotely in an effective way is a question. But Sid Sijbrandij, CEO of GitLab, an View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
computing and open-source software allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs like Bahadir to do more with less. And funding sources are more diverse than ever. Unger, for example, has raised seed money from sources... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
nature of the innovation problem at hand, the motivation of the external developers, and the firm's platform business model. Depending on these factors, the outside innovation might be fed and managed either by creating collaborative communities (think of the View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
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 health-care provider's View Details
- 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
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman and CEO of Segway LLC and creator of... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
for designing better plastic products. In software, a number of companies let people add custom-designed modules to their standard products and then commercialize the best of those components. Open-source View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel