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15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

When cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update in July, it impacted a staggering 8.5 million devices. The crisis rippled through commercial airline operations, package delivery logistics, ecommerce, and health... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

01 Dec 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Starting from the premise that successful communication with some 65,000 HBS alumni is essential to optimize the relationship between HBS and its constituents, this committee will examine the existing channels of communication to current students and alumni and make... View Details

Rudina Seseri

Rudina Seseri is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, leading the firm’s investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled enterprise software as a service (SaaS), cloud, Information Technology (IT) software, and vertical... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

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RCS Offboarding Checklist - Research Computing Services

action on your part before losing access to HBS resources. We also highly recommend reviewing the Harvard Libraries Research Data Offboarding session (the session can be viewed at a higher speed and note that clicking "Show More" in the... View Details

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

entrepreneurial interests as two separate threads that came together in 2020.When I was at UCLA, I studied molecular biology. After deciding to not pursue medicine and feeling paralyzed by my career outlook, my dad recommended I take a... View Details

Student-Profile

Ran Zhuo

recommended Business Economics to me,” she says. “I wanted to conduct research that has real and immediate business applications, and the Business Economics program at Harvard gives me this opportunity.” Ran appreciates that the program... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real estate in the world. While many... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services

familiarized yourself with our documentation about the cluster. We also highly recommend attending a session of our monthly cluster trainings. As they are the gateway to the cluster for everyone, don't run anything on the login nodes .... View Details

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Peek into Business | MBA

definition of "business" and consider how understanding it can be valuable—from a strawberry farmer managing supply chains to a food scientist meeting market demands, or a software engineer designing solutions to a content creator... View Details

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

optimal pricing for new products. Schematic of Pricing Software Developed for Rue La La to Predict Demand and Optimize Prices. The researchers showed that Rue La La could increase revenue of products in the experiment by approximately 9.7... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories

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Using Personal Devices for HBS Business | Information Technology

device to work with sensitive data. This includes syncing sensitive data that may be in your OneDrive account. Personal Device Support & Associated Costs HBS IT cannot provide software or support for personal devices. Please keep in mind... View Details

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

have seen too many companies lose their edge by diversifying to large too quickly,” Blank said, recommending BlackRock focus on growth through the licensure of Aladdin. Dewey noted that with no hard finances on what revenue Aladdin could... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

06 Sep 2018
Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

execution mode and test the options to learn. For example, when I was researching the sales prospecting process, there were many software systems to choose from. Rather than spend weeks, even days, researching between them, we tested two... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Becoming a Consulting Expert

failure. Consulting isn’t about learning everything there is to know about every company or industry you work for; it is about quickly understanding the KEY aspects of the business that will allow you to make informed recommendations to... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

24 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Why did you want to take CS50? Samuel: I wanted to learn the language of computer science, so I actually knew what software engineers were talking about. Sloan: I took CS50 because I've always had... View Details

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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

recommended that students not take both of them. Educational Objectives Having a good strategy is not enough to succeed in today’s competitive environment. More than 50% of start-ups fail within five years and more than half of the... View Details

15 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

plans to offer the technology for use in Internet, catalog, and in-store shopping. 10 BodyMetrics Ltd. provides software that recommends the best fitting size for the garment selected and on-screen... View Details

Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

03 Nov 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

Section 404, which will become common knowledge from Wall Street to Main Street, as well as rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in recent years. This is not an issue of interest only to those of us in the U.S., as suggested by a number... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Oct 2014
News

Network Effect

backed if he had chosen the software industry as a career.” Tanzi explained that, owing to recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time with a relatively modest... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

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