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- December 1983 (Revised May 1986)
- Case
H-A Technologies (B), Software Case
Porter, Leslie R. "H-A Technologies (B), Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 184-061, December 1983. (Revised May 1986.)
- December 1983 (Revised May 1986)
- Case
H-A Technologies (A), Software Case
Porter, Leslie R. "H-A Technologies (A), Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 184-060, December 1983. (Revised May 1986.)
- January 1989
- Teaching Note
Spinnaker Software Corp., Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-385-252). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
- August 1986
- Case
Dow Indonesia (A), Software Case
By: James E. Austin and Louis T. Wells Jr.
Austin, James E., and Louis T. Wells Jr. "Dow Indonesia (A), Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 386-142, August 1986.
- August 2014
- Case
Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details
Keywords: Valve; Self-Managed Organizations; Organization Design; Strategy; Flat Organization; Video Games; Organization Alignment; Family Business; Steam; Steam Machine; Design; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Software; Hardware; Video Game Industry; Seattle
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats. "Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)." Harvard Business School Case 415-015, August 2014.
- August 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp.
By: Paul M. Healy
Compares two companies in the information capture software industry. Asks students to analyze and compare the performance of two companies (one in the United Kingdom and the other in the United States) from the perspective of a buy-side analyst reporting to the manager... View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Management; Environmental Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financial Reporting; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Economic Growth; Fair Value Accounting; Information Industry; Computer Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Healy, Paul M. "DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp." Harvard Business School Case 106-015, August 2005. (Revised April 2007.)
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
pixelfit Companies that contribute to open source software and use it in their own IT systems and applications can gain a competitive advantage—even though they may be helping their competitors in the short run. Open source View Details
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
NSK Software Technologies Ltd. TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-298-071). View Details
- May 1986
- Case
Cutrite Shears, Inc., Software Case
By: Thomas R. Piper
Piper, Thomas R. "Cutrite Shears, Inc., Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 286-089, May 1986.
- September 1985 (Revised May 1986)
- Case
Consumer Financial Institute, Software Case
Vitale, Michael R. "Consumer Financial Institute, Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 186-019, September 1985. (Revised May 1986.)
- July 1985 (Revised May 1986)
- Case
BIMA Corp. (B), Software Case
Vitale, Michael R. "BIMA Corp. (B), Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 186-018, July 1985. (Revised May 1986.)
- September – October 2009
- Article
Critical Decisions in Software Development: Updating the State of the Practice
By: Alan MacCormack, Michael A. Cusumano, Chris Kemerer and Bill Crandall
This article focuses on how to choose the "right" software development process, how to structure global software design chains, how to manage the interaction of project structure and software design, and how to balance innovation and efficiency in a software business. View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Product Development; Projects; Innovation and Management; Performance Efficiency; Information Technology Industry
MacCormack, Alan, Michael A. Cusumano, Chris Kemerer, and Bill Crandall. "Critical Decisions in Software Development: Updating the State of the Practice." IEEE Software 26, no. 5 (September–October 2009).
- Article
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case
By: Robert Lagerström, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Alan MacCormack
In this paper, we test a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) based method for visualizing and
measuring software portfolio architectures. Our data is drawn from a power utility company, comprising 192 software applications with 614 dependencies between them. We
show that the... View Details
Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Alan MacCormack. "Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case." Special Issue on DSM Conference 2014. Journal of Modern Project Management 3, no. 2 (September–December 2015): 114–121.
- 09 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Transforming BlackBerry: From Smartphones to Software
By: Ranjay Gulati and Eppa Rixey
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-052. View Details
- May 1986
- Case
Amalgamated Manufacturing Corp. (A), Software Case
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
Hayes, Samuel L., III. "Amalgamated Manufacturing Corp. (A), Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 286-080, May 1986.
- Forthcoming
- Chapter
Economic Models for Software Vulnerability Research
By: Frank Nagle and Michael Sutton
- May 1986
- Case
Titanium Fabrication Division (A), Software Case
Shapiro, Benson P. "Titanium Fabrication Division (A), Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 586-136, May 1986.
- September 2, 2014
- Article
How to Manage Scheduling Software Fairly
By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan and Bradley Staats
Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, and Bradley Staats. "How to Manage Scheduling Software Fairly." Harvard Business Review Blogs (September 2, 2014). (A version of this article appeared in the December 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review under the title "Taming Scheduling Software.")
- March 1990
- Background Note
Kristen's Cookie Co. (B), Software Note
Bohn, Roger E. "Kristen's Cookie Co. (B), Software Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 690-053, March 1990.