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10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

consideration given to the underlying economic activities, the unique cluster boundaries, or the appropriate benchmark of economic concentration. Our goal is to increase awareness of the complexities behind cluster identification and to provide concrete insights and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2022
Teaching Note

Borusan CAT: Monetizing Prediction in the Age of AI

By: Navid Mojir

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-053. View Details

Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Artificial Intelligence; Forecasting and Prediction; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Segmentation; AI and Machine Learning; Construction Industry; Turkey

July 1994 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Microsoft: Multimedia Publications (B)

By: Marco Iansiti and Ellen Stein

Microsoft is about to release an apparently successful CD-ROM baseball product. The company is trying to determine what product(s) should be developed next, how it should organize itself, and what role it should play in the development of such products. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Applications and Software; Product Design; Organizational Structure; Product Launch; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Washington (state, US)

September 2022 (Revised August 2023)
Case

Audrey Tang: Using Technology to Strengthen Democracy in Taiwan

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

Since the early days of the internet, Taiwan had a vibrant community of civic hackers and open-source programmers who engaged with social issues. Audrey Tang was one of them. She spearheaded the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan, where protestors peacefully... View Details

Keywords: Democracy; Internet; Web Technology; Digital Transformation; Digital Platform; COVID; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Taiwan; China; Asia

February 2001 (Revised March 2003)
Case

i2 TradeMatrix

i2 has recently acquired Aspect Development and is incorporating Aspect's offerings into its TradeMatrix product for business-to-business e-commerce. TradeMatrix embeds i2's existing products for optimizing supply chain performance by applying advanced planning and... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Technology Industry

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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

the compute, storage, and software support HRCI Level 3 and higher, certain standard computing practices normally allowed on desktops and laptop are not allowed on the compute grid. Those will be outlined below. Note that RCS maintains... View Details

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics." Ph.D. diss., MIT, 1970. Merton, Robert C. "A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the... View Details

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2014
News

Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

sectors that create value for society." Today, the SEI and the 97 faculty affiliated with the initiative connect with communities worldwide. Faculty research spans the examination of the needs of the 4.5 billion members of society living on less than $5 a day to the... View Details

Keywords: SEI

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

was "jail broken"—allowing developers to create homegrown tools for writing applications for the iPhone—it became quite apparent that there was a significant untapped need among thousands of developers to create applications. Apple... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

August 2007 (Revised December 2007)
Case

Microsoft in China and India, 1993-2007

By: Tarun Khanna and Prithwiraj Choudhury

Relates to Microsoft's expansion in China and India in the period 1993-2007 and the strategic issues faced by multinationals in emerging markets. View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Emerging Markets; Information Technology Industry; China; India

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective

evaluating companies. These projects include building and presenting a market map in an area of interest and working directly with a portfolio company. Projects are customized to align with company needs and students’ interests and... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

departments easily embracing the Web. In the software industry, for example, we have witnessed how the emergence of loosely coupled interfaces has enabled the majority of application companies to leverage... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

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Peek into Business | MBA

a software engineer designing solutions to a content creator building their brand. What Do Jobs in Business Look Like? Discover the diverse range of careers in business, from entry level positions to dream roles. What Skills Are... View Details

May 2024
Supplement

HubSpot and Motion AI (B): Generative AI Opportunities

By: Jill Avery

The technologies driving artificial intelligence (AI) had progressed significantly since HubSpot’s acquisition of Motion AI in 2017. Generative AI was the newest major development. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies such as HubSpot were analyzing how generative AI... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; CRM; Chatbots; Sales Management; Generative Ai; SaaS; Marketing; Sales; AI and Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry; United States

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the applications and their... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

March 2015 (Revised April 2015)
Case

The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosystems in the Thermostat Industry

By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman

Beth Wozniak, President of Honeywell Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC) at Honeywell International Inc., spun around in her office chair, reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2... View Details