software - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

Choosing the right software platform is a critical task for developers. It can be a business life-or-death decision picking between Android or iPhone, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform, Xbox or PlayStation. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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

Student-Profile

Ran Zhuo

coursework in the department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—Ran has served as a research assistant to several HBS professors. She’s currently working on a project that includes an investigation into the use of open source vs. proprietary View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes of product marketing at... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

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Helen Mehreteab | MBA

future tech and/or business opportunities! Professional goals: I'm excited about pursuing my passion for business and tech through a career in Software Engineering or Product Management. X: Helen Mehreteab View Details

Career Coach

Adelina Pak

Informed by her prior experiences in the Technology industry, Adelina enjoys helping students understand the various roles within tech and navigate recruiting specific to the industry. She has experience working at both software and... View Details

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Stata and Maintaining Version Stability - Research Computing Services

Software Tools Stata and Maintaining Version Stability 28ms Every two years we update Stata in our research computing environment (both desktops and on the HBSGrid). While this is an excellent opportunity to stay abreast of the new... View Details

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

strain. They had a robust configuration that enabled new purposes, new software deployments, and new coordinated routines across teams. The best can use this as an opportunity to experiment and learn where technology can deliver service... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Digital Agility: The Impact of Software Portfolio Architecture on IT System Evolution By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerström, Martin Mocker, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—The modern industrial firm increasingly relies on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Designing Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

modeling using simulation software to inform business model choices, and gain practice with organization design methods to diagnose misalignment and resolve tradeoffs (e.g. efficiency vs. effectiveness, decision speed vs. quality).... View Details

10 Jan 2017
News

A Side of Data with Your Dinner

Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.” His frustration led to the 1999... View Details

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Groups in Decentralized Organizations (revised) Authors:Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-090.pdf Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

Shirish Nimgaonkar

Shirish is an entrepreneur, advisor to and investor in multiple technology companies, with a focus on software and AI. He is currently the Founder and CEO of an AI enabled predictive automation software... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#237;#Artificial Intelligence

01 Jun 2019
News

Case Study: Mind the Gap

the shortage of skills isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link Central and Eastern Europe’s software houses with global enterprises in... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

1 Dec 1998
Conference Presentation

An Introduction to Mixed Models in SAS

By: William B. Simpson

Keywords: Applications and Software; Mathematical Methods

Citation

02 May 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

Hindu/Muslim conflict. Designed for each computer to be shared by two to three students, the children work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. “The stories that have come back are incredible,” Mendhro says. “One of the Hindu children told us his... View Details

02 Sep 2014
News

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

2023
Working Paper

Dynamic Pricing, Intertemporal Spillovers, and Efficiency

By: Alexander J. MacKay, Dennis Svartbäck and Anders G. Ekholm

Pricing technology that allows firms to rapidly adjust prices has two potential benefits. Time-varying prices can respond to high-frequency demand shocks to generate greater revenues, and they can also be used to smooth out demand to reduce costs. Using data... View Details

Keywords: Price; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Volatility