Software - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

on their small-cap value team, gaining exposure to software public equities investing. At what point did you decide to pursue an MS/MBA, and why? I applied to Harvard through the 2+2 program long before I fully knew what I wanted to... View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Amanda Li MBA 2018 | COO & Co-Founder, Banyan Infrastructure “The world needs $3T+ more per year in sustainable infrastructure investments to meet climate goals, yet banks and funds are bottlenecked from manual overhead. Banyan Infrastructure removes these bottlenecks... View Details

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

have their own age-specific needs and preference. Tingting Zhong, MBA 2006, Cofounder & Co-CEO Region: Asia/Pacific Deeper Pulse Deeper Pulse runs platform that generates innovative designs for electric motors. Its software provides motor... View Details

06 Feb 2019
Blog Post

7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

I grew up in a small town in southern New Hampshire and graduated from Harvard in 2014 with an Engineering Sciences SB (Bachelor of Science). After spending 22 years on the east coast, I decided to try something new and moved to the Bay Area. I worked as a View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

effectiveness has come the ability to do things truly differently. American Hospital Supply's distribution software and American Airlines' SABRE reservation system are examples of victories in past technologies. The firms were the first... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

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 industry with high... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

December 2023
Case

TikTok: The Algorithm Will See You Now

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

In a world where attention is a scarce commodity, this case explores the meteoric rise of TikTok—an app that transformed from a niche platform for teens into the most visited domain by 2021—surpassing even Google. Its algorithm was a sophisticated mechanism for... View Details

Keywords: Social Media; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Cybersecurity; Culture; Technology Industry; China; United States; India

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

focus on building relationships, managing, and selling. Software engineers can use services to autogenerate programming code for basic purposes, allowing them to write code more efficiently while spending more time on other activities,... View Details

August 2013 (Revised December 2014)
Case

Taking Dell Private

By: David J. Collis, David B. Yoffie and Matthew Shaffer

In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Going Private; The PC Market; Market For Corporate Control; Corporate Strategy; Leveraged Buyouts; Change Management; Private Equity; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; United States

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01 Jun 2024
News

Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

March 2019
Case

DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome

By: Ayelet Israeli and David Lane

DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar spikes after meals. After a first year of trial rollout in... View Details

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02 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams

Keywords: by Melissa A. Valentine, Bradley R. Staats & Amy C. Edmondson

The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

“The Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate?” (2010). Alan D. MacCormack : Received an IBM Corporate Research Gift in 2010. Alan D. MacCormack : Received a Siemens Corporate Research Grant ($80k) in 2010 for exploring the impact of View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

people with disabling hearing loss Buoy Health—provides AI-powered feedback on symptoms and makes recommendations for care options Careport Health—offers care coordination software solutions to manage patient transitions across the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2017
News

A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective

leverage learning across the University and encourage Harvard students to think more broadly about their role as leaders in society.” Tunnell, who has worked at Hellman & Friedman for most of his career, is a member of the firm’s investment committee and leader of... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

the world’s most dynamic ecosystems for technology, especially for startups and venture capital. During five years in the military fulfilling his required service, he gained firsthand technical experience as a member of the IDF’s Elite Technological Unit, where he was... View Details

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

intricate software tricks that nobody else knew. Please stop adding to age discrimination.” I appreciate Stac’s reminding us of the sensitive nature of the topic. At the same time, the article did not state a position regarding technology... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
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Marvin: A Personalized Telehealth Approach to Mental Health

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Eshani Sharma, Andrew Nguyen, Thomas Arsenault, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Julia Kelley

More than one third of Americans were said to suffer some type of behavioral health ailment at some point in their lifetime, with many people requiring chronic therapy or intervention. Despite significant clinical needs, access to reliable treatment has been difficult... View Details