Indian Software Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
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Tech Trekker

Symbolics, the supermom helped lift the firm's revenues from $1 million to $120 million. From there, Lang led a string of turnarounds and product launches with software companies. In 1993 she signed on with Lotus View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

strategic issues in which their audiences would be more interested. But Indian software was also much more affordable on the limited budgets available to these student teams. And End of the Line's arguments... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2015
News

Sharing Knowledge of Innovation in India

Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) When Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) arrived on campus in 2003, his native India had not yet become the economic powerhouse it is today, a fact reflected in the limited number of HBS cases with Indian protagonists. In... View Details

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Henry McCance

discovered three of the four then-known genes associated with Alzheimer’s. “Part of my skill set is I can recognize world-class talent when I see it,” says McCance. “I knew he was the kind of guy Greylock would have backed if he had chosen the View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Health Care

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Finalists | New Venture Competition

Finalists Business Track, 2025 Accio Alex Zannos (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025) Streamline and automates the hardware manufacturing process. Argus Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025) Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Accelerating AI model View Details

23 Jul 2016
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The Art of Persuasion

When Radhika Piramal (MBA 2006) returned to India in 2009, she noted two developing trends with direct implications for VIP Industries, her family’s luggage and bag business. First, air traffic was increasing rapidly with the introduction... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

studio enables powerful virtual learning experiences. Working with HBX content developers, research associates, and production and film crews, Mayo and Margolis developed HBX cases from scratch based on interviews with protagonists in... View Details

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

Software 806-121 Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or open... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business, by David Mamet “My penchant is for building brands that find a place in the customer’s mind and for developing businesses that live or die by how well they connect with the consumer.”... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

and honor the land itself, which remains sacred to the Massachusett People. Click on the images below for more information about each work in the exhibition. The Ghost Dance . Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Trade Card (verso). Advertising... View Details

02 Sep 2014
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Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple

military, and consulting settings, Huckman has backed intuition with hard data. In a software services firm, for example, he found that when familiarity increased by 50 percent, defects decreased by 19 percent and deviations from budget... View Details

March 2000 (Revised June 2000)
Case

Microsoft Office 2000: Multimedia

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

Describes the history of Microsoft's Office product suite. Discusses evolution of the Office 2000 project. Set at the end of the project when Steven Sinofsky, Office vice president, must decide upon the direction for the next version of Office, as well as make changes... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Change; Information Technology Industry; Washington (state, US)

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10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

believe that we need the best talent working on the most important issues of our time. Currently, the social sector has a lot of constraints that make it challenging for organizations to recruit and develop people.” Kapila’s social... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

approximately welfare neutral. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-011.pdf Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Software Development (revised) Authors:Robert S.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Apr 1998
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Sparking Internet Commerce

ATTRACTING INVESTORS like moths to a flame is Firefly Network, Inc. (www.firefly.com), a privately held firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that strives to make the Internet more consumer-friendly. Firefly CEO and co-founder Nicholas Grouf explains that the company's... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

David Duffield

After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

where he ran a job-finding software business from his dorm room, Mistele went to work for Microsoft. Over the next nine years there, he helped to launch four businesses, the last of which focused on automotive telematics, which is known... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

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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