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Fabian Frick
Fabian Frick’s career trajectory continues to evolve as he allows curiosity to guide his interests. Although he studied computer science through undergraduate and graduate degree programs, Frick found that software development was not... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
me graduating with a specialization in computing. In my senior year, I picked up a job at a small business selling open source services. This combination of baseline coding skills and open source knowledge got me to my first job at Red Hat as a View Details
Raymond J. Noorda
Upon his arrival at Novell, Noorda realized that the future of computer networking lay in the software and not the hardware. Novell’s product, Netware, dominated the network operating system market in the early 1990s by making it possible... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
Laurence F. Probst, III
production of videogames and has also branched into educational software through the acquisition of Broderbund. Probst also managed the international expansion of EA. View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Designing Students
Iansiti and Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke. The occasion was last December's HBS annual Product Design Fair, which featured more than fifty student-created product designs ranging from Internet software to coffee-roasting equipment. View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
White knight in the rye
want them returned. He may want me to destroy them. He may not care at all." Norton, who paid $169,411.25 for the letters, has never met Salinger. The founder of Peter Norton Computing, makers of Norton Utilities software programs, Norton... View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber?
- May 2017 (Revised February 2018)
- Supplement
VMware and the Public Cloud (B)
By: Raffaella Sadun and Christine Snively
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Sadun, Raffaella, and Christine Snively. "VMware and the Public Cloud (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-515, May 2017. (Revised February 2018.)
- October 1994
- Supplement
Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Windows Network Version
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Windows Network Version." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 195-727, October 1994.
- June 1995
- Supplement
Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Macintosh Network Version
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Decision Support System Software: Macintosh Network Version." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 195-726, June 1995.
- May 2017
- Article
The Reference Wars: Encyclopædia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence
By: Shane Greenstein
The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft’s Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed sale... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Britannica; Diseconomies; Encyclopedias; Applications and Software; Books; Competition; Publishing Industry
Greenstein, Shane. "The Reference Wars: Encyclopædia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 5 (May 2017): 995–1017.
- April 2004
- Background Note
Emergence of "Silicon Wadi", The
By: Paul A. Gompers and Sara Bergson
Provides background information on the high-tech industry in Israel. View Details
Gompers, Paul A., and Sara Bergson. Emergence of "Silicon Wadi", The. Harvard Business School Background Note 204-156, April 2004.
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
(photo by Neal Hamberg) Ask Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) about StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, and he’s more than happy to talk about his thriving software company, which deploys video and scanning technologies to stop retail theft. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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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
- Fast Answer
Research Tools
employee experience insights in one place through online surveys, polls, quizzes, etc. Tableau (for Students) Students can sign up for a free Tableau account. The software will allow anyone to connect to a... View Details
An Wang
Labs’ sales exploded. Later products included several lines of sophisticated mini computers and such revolutionary word processing software as the Office Information Systems (OIS) series. By the end of Wang’s tenure, Wang Labs’ revenue... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development
Nir Barkat, a software entrepreneur elected mayor of Jerusalem last November, visited HBS in late March to take part in a roundtable discussion on the economic development of his city, Israel’s poorest. HBS professor Michael Porter, a... View Details