Software Application Portfolio - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer environment that produced HBS's first... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

portfolio of businesses, each of which might be grown or harvested, bought or sold, in service to a larger corporate purpose. Most dangerous of all, the prestrategy worldview lacked a rigorous sense of the dynamics of competition — “If we... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and... View Details

22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

connects tech companies to African software engineers. And in this episode of Skydeck, Sulyman talks to associate editor Julia Hanna about how his work is empowering Africa—and about the journey that led him to this mission. READ MORE... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment. After a few fits and starts with the business model,... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around four themes: choosing a View Details

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight control and enabled their companies to grow, Bartlett says, "it... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

moment of saying, ‘Every banker’s going to have one of those things,’ ” she says. VisiCalc was presented on an Apple computer, and Dubinsky—not knowing the difference between hardware and software back then—saw the machine’s logo and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

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