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  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

to other firms than non-star analysts. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13633 The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Leading Questions

valuable resources: their leaders and employees. Today, the personal coaching industry is a $1 billion business in the United States, up more than 40 percent since 2011. Schlatka, who has worked part-time as an executive coach at HBS for... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

that priming relevant networks (e.g., family or friends) makes products associated with those networks more attractive. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/anik norton.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Devices: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Regulators and Innovators By: Gordon, William J., and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract— Software has become an increasingly important component of medical device technology. Through legislation like... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • News

Paths of Victory

Competition had on their business. Parker Treacy (MBA 2012) Founder of Cobli, 2016 Alumni Track Grand Prize Winner Cobli, based in Brazil, is a vehicle fleet logistics business tapping into the South American market of 50 million vehicles. The company’s View Details
Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo
We empirically analyze how managerial overrides to a commercial algorithm that forecasts demand and schedules labor affect store performance. We analyze administrative data from a large grocery retailer that utilizes a commercial algorithm to forecast demand and... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Human Capital; Performance; Applications and Software; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

they know what disruptive innovation means, but I’ve found it’s often misunderstood. The simplest way to describe it — in a way that applies to health care or any industry — is innovation that transforms a product or service that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

students, and achieve top-quality research. Publisher Link: http://www.amazon.com/Building-World-Class-Universities-Asia/dp/1453707778 The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed Authors:Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher Publication:John Wiley & Sons, forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1997
  • Chapter

Patent Scope and Emerging Industries: Biotechnology, Software, and Beyond

By: Josh Lerner and Robert P. Merges
Keywords: Patents; Applications and Software; Genetics; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 11 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense View Details
  • July 2021
  • Case

A Close Shave at Squire

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth and Michael Norris
In 2020, just after closing a $34 million Series B financing round, Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon consider how to adjust their business, Squire Technologies, to the new realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their barbershop technology, including tools to run a shop... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Pandemics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco
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  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

to think that bitcoin can disrupt not only major companies like payment processors (more than $400 billion in market cap), remittances companies and financial software providers, but also other non currency–related View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

operations tell their materials suppliers exactly what specifications to meet. Similarly, companies should demand reasonable levels of security from software vendors. Look at the wording of this contract between General Electric and View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

"Get it right the first time." On the other hand, some software development processes are designed nowadays so that they can be reconfigured cheaply and quickly. Developers generate new versions of a View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 10 Jan 2007
  • HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

and withhold by exception." Have private-sector firms undergone similarly rapid, wholesale reinvention? A: I would say that IBM's transformation under Lou Gerstner (MBA '65), with its shift from hardware to software and services, is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service
  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

transformed several industries over the past two years—may offer solutions for overwhelmed resettlement programs run by both nongovernmental organizations and governments, according to a study by Harvard Business School Assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 02 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

methods. But the payoffs have not been nearly as dramatic for service industries applying lean principles. HBS professor David Upton and doctoral student Bradley Staats look at the experience of Indian View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

together. Building on the friendship they formed at HBS, their MBAs, and learnings from their careers to date, Schoonbeek and van Poecke founded Key ESG, a software solution that helps businesses measure, manage, and report Environmental,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While that tolerance is very high in the U.S., in many other countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design

believes that good design can inspire the fashion industry to avoid these frightening forecasts. Her business is built on two prongs: She’s developing a software algorithm that she hopes will automate zero... View Details