Applications and Software - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

my colleague [HBS assistant professor] Jeffrey Rayport says, recorded music is one of those products that is actually 'dematerializing' - it's moving out of the realm of physical 'product' and becoming pure service." One possible future... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Building blocks: “In mastery learning, a student moves at his or her own pace and takes as many shots on goal as needed to master a concept, before advancing. If I’m one teacher with 30... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

bottles of correction fluid later, Staples continues to expand. "You have to live the reality," explains Stemberg, "but dream the dream." Yet the plethora of products, services, and satisfied customers is more than even Staples' visionary... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty different countries, among them... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

launching Little Black Library to promote education on racial justice and the Black experience by sharing books; and helping raise capital for Uptrust, a software firm that... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

aspects of organization.” Neither organization charts nor the “grossly misleading” application of economics to the management of business firms could be relied upon to give satisfactory administrative results. Yet as Donham himself had... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

incentive award was announced for the best new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. "AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn't being used at Bath Iron Works," he recalls. "I ran the numbers on the cost savings... View Details

16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

Basket Mouth and singer Kaline. Alumni NVC underway: Where will it take you? Fifteen HBS clubs and associations are gearing up for the 9th Annual Alumni New Venture Competition (aNVC). The View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof

by other energy- and water-saving measures, anchors the School’s application for Shad to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. HBS now has... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

people to donate directly to the organizations fighting COVID on-ground in India in return offering consultations related to the MBA journey, including assisting with GMAT/GRE prep, school selection, application planning, View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

HBS faculty, while aspiring MBA Program applicants had their first exposure to the case method during Prospective Student Day events, organized each year by the AASU and the HBS Admissions Office in... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

be, it’s not that a big of a deal to lose one. Satellites are now ‘versioned’ just as software and apps are. That gives companies much more agility, much more ability to experiment. Space companies are... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book View Details

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