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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
innovations drive industry transformation and market creation, the authors explain how to unlock disruption’s transformational power. They provide a set of market-proven tools and approaches to innovation that have been honed through... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
say, Are you a treatment provider? Are you a medical device? Are you a drug? Are you a software vendor?” The latter seemed like the right answer until Gastfriend realized that software is counted against a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
similar opportunity. Best to have an intense focus and evolve your software in a rapid fashion. It is very common for software companies to start with smaller customers and work their way up. While it is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
dynamics and strategies used by firms that recognize the transformative power of these “invisible engines.” Shorter discussions of Internet-based software platforms offer glimpses into a future in which the way we buy, pay, watch, listen,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
method teaching and learning She and Mike Kamowski, a software engineer at Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster, started to build out a top-of-the-funnel solution for the dance community in 2018. Bopsidy launched the following year as an online... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
“We know the industry is changing and we need to become very good global thinkers. The risk of not acting is even bigger.” After kicking the case around, talk turned to the pending role play and the best ways to make it a valuable... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
Don’t let the fact that first-year MBA students immerse themselves in the beer industry fool you—they are learning about product development by participating in an online simulation. In fact, the use and complexity of simulations in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
performance of workers. To promote change across the manufacturing sector, Esquel sponsors an annual forum, the Integral Conversation, which brings together industry and government stakeholders to inspire alternative thinking. “It’s a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
fragmented and on their own. “I cannot think of another industry as large or as fundamental as agriculture that is structured that way,” says Baron. “It’s as if every oil well was owned by a different family, while the View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
which built the large machines that automate the production of cardboard boxes. “I’ve always been wired operationally,” says Thomas, who majored in industrial engineering at Stanford University before coming to HBS. That background,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
Amazon.com of telecom, but we hadn’t raised enough money to build such a big brand. We decided instead to license our software applications — made to process digital-service transactions — to retailers like Best Buy, Circuit City, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
her in building a solution? They founded Stell in 2022. Its initial product is a software platform designed to help engineers track technical specifications from the initial concept through engineering, execution, manufacturing, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
of household chores because I couldn’t see.” By his junior year at Purdue, where he studied industrial engineering, his vision loss was complete, and Gibbons finally needed a cane to get around and readers to help with his studies.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
“This is the most exciting time in the technology industry since I left Stanford Business School 26 years ago,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Harvard ’77) told a student audience that nearly filled Burden Auditorium in early December.... View Details
- 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 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
field-based cases, notes, and software models have been created for Entrepreneurial Finance. "I started the course to shed light on how individuals and teams identify opportunities, how they marshall the required resources, including... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Well-Tuned Life
founded Carry-a-Tune Technologies, a company that sells software products that use the fun of karaoke to help people improve their singing — and, no doubt, their self-image. It happens that self-worth is an important theme in the... 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