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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage

By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein
How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source... View Details
Keywords: Server Software; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Economics; Value Creation; Measurement and Metrics
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    History's Guiding Light

    entrepreneurs and business leaders from across emerging markets, was a goldmine. It allowed me to explore questions on emerging market business issues from the eyes of those on the ground. CEM also provided me fruitful ground to experiment with View Details
    • Fast Answer

    Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs

    research. PatentSight, a database with unique patent data analytic solutions, useful... View Details
    • February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
    • Teaching Note

    Travelogo: Understanding Customer Journeys

    By: Eva Ascarza and Ta-Wei Huang
    Teaching Note for HBS Exercise 524-044. The exercise aims to teach students about 1) Customer Segmentation; and 2) constructing buying personas, 3) Get actionable insights from clickstream data. View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Analysis; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing Strategy; Segmentation; Consumer Behavior; Travel Industry; United States
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

    By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman
    Homophily in social relations is widely documented. We know that homophily results from both individual preferences and uneven opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in formal organizations is not well understood. We argue that... View Details
    Keywords: Interactive Communication; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Behavior; Internet and the Web; Theory; Information Technology Industry
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    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    From Das’s Desk

    bring data and analytics technologies to precision medicine today. And this is just a partial list. There’s a new HBS podcast coming soon that will focus on business challenges and opportunities in the era... View Details
    Keywords: podcasts; lifelong learning; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • Profile

    Fumi Tamaki

    clear picture of the inner workings of companies and markets,” Fumi says. “It was a fascinating experience, especially as companies are drawing in larger volumes of data – the ability to analyze it is critically important.” But even... View Details
    • August 2003
    • Case

    Mercury Computer Systems: The Evolution from Integrated Technology to Open Standard

    By: Rebecca Henderson and Nancy Confrey
    For 20 years, Mercury Computer Systems has thrived, providing products and services that support ultrafast processing of real time data. Now Jay Bertelli, the CEO, faces a critical question: How can the firm compete once the standards on which its products are based... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Open Source Distribution; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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    • Web

    Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

    models, and innovate funding methods. The Four Workstreams The KPMA identified four key areas that needed to be addressed: engaging patients, using data and analytics effectively, designing successful... View Details
    • Web

    Digital Operations - Course Catalog

    technologies to synchronize workflows, systems, and data across internal and external partners. Assess how automation, AI, and data analytics transform operations by enabling... View Details
    • August 2008
    • Article

    Economic Links and Predictable Returns

    By: Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini
    This paper finds evidence of return predictability across economically linked firms. We test the hypothesis that in the presence of investors subject to attention constraints, stock prices do not promptly incorporate news about economically related firms, generating... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Price; Assets; Analytics and Data Science; Customers; Stocks; Equity; Strategy; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
    • Case

    Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Darryl S. Romanow
    This case provides a realistic, current, and detailed view of software procurement in an international business environment where the competition in enterprise-wide software solutions is growing. Focuses on the selection of packaged software to serve multiple sites... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Multinational Firms and Management; Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    • 08 Nov 2016
    • Blog Post

    Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

    amazing content about working at their business that lives on career pages, social media, etc. And, because we're data geeks, we've built some really interesting analytics on the back end. I spend most of my... View Details
    Keywords: Technology
    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

    United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One criterion: The occupation must... View Details
    Keywords: Dan Morrell
    • 15 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

    case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518036 Harvard Business School Case 418-070 TrustSphere: Building a Market for Relationship Analytics Manish Goel was the CEO of TrustSphere, a seven-year-old company in the View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • December 2010
    • Background Note

    Risk and Reward in Venture Capital

    By: William A. Sahlman
    This note describes the payoff structure of investment in individual venture capital–backed companies and in venture capital portfolios. Venture Capital investments are characterized by high failure rate (0ver 50%) and a small number of given successes (greater than... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Analytics and Data Science; Failure; Performance; Information Technology
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    • 28 May 2019
    • News

    Leading Questions

    lesson she learned from Professor Boris Groysberg in an HBS classroom: “The most important leadership skills in the future aren’t going to be analytical or diagnostic skills. The thing that will make the most difference is the skill of... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 01 Apr 2011
    • News

    My First HBS Class

    (On Piskorski, see also here.) The day’s case, written by Jeff Bussgang (MBA ’95C) and Professors Piskorski and Tom Eisenmann, was about foursquare, a location-based social networking game. (For Bussgang’s blog about teaching his case, see here.) Since I was unfamiliar... View Details
    Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • Fast Answer

    Identifiers Available by Database

    Which identifiers can be searched in each financial database?   Gathering data from several different financial databases can be challenging.  There are identifiers that these databases have in common, that can make the... View Details
    • 16 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 16

    in managing business analytics and big data at the enterprise level. It includes key applications of analytics, human and organizational issues in building analytical... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne