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  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference

THE CHALLENGE: Ana Shukla shares advice on securing venture capital. Karen Kerrigan and Brigitte Baumann (far left, center) stressed the importance of mentors and networks. As a first-time entrepreneur, Ana Shukla launched a marketing-automation View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    Martha R. Ingram

    After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram Industries and Ingram... View Details
    Keywords: Services
    • December 2013 (Revised February 2014)
    • Supplement

    Reinventing Brainlab (B)

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Karol Misztal
    The management of Germany's Brainlab AG, a leading provider of software-driven oncology and surgery solutions, needs to evaluate strategic options for proceeding without an exclusive hardware partner in its most profitable business segment. View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Medical Specialties; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Germany
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    • 2013
    • Article

    Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews

    By: Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi and Michael Luca
    Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Food; Governance Compliance; Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Public Administration Industry; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 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
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    New Releases

    Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft has been a focal point in the landmark antitrust suit brought by the Department of Justice against Microsoft. At issue in the case is whether Microsoft used unfair and illegal tactics to dominate the... View Details
    Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

      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 software for managing human resource... View Details
      Keywords: Computers & Electronics
      • Fast Answer

      Gaming: statistics

      Where can I find information on gaming hardware and software? The Entertainment Software Association website lists sales, demographic, and usage data, as well as information intended to improve the image of the industry. Search eMarketer... View Details
      • Career Coach

      Simi Oyesanya

      Simi most recently worked in Tech Growth Equity at General Atlantic where she was a Senior Associate. Prior to that she worked in Venture Capital and was an Associate at McKinsey. In her first year she recruited for internships in investment management securing offers... View Details
      • 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

        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
        • 2023
        • Article

        Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation

        By: Jan B. Brönneke, Annika Herr, Simon Reif and Ariel D. Stern
        Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the health care delivery system. Key among these was the creation of a reimbursement pathway for patient-centered digital... View Details
        Keywords: Digital Transformation; Applications and Software; Product Development; Insurance; Policy; Health Industry; Germany
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        • February 1997 (Revised July 1997)
        • Case

        Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company Is Born

        By: Ashish Nanda
        Charles Ferguson has just heard from a venture capital (VC) consortium that it is willing to finance Vermeer Technologies, a company he has cofounded for developing Internet software. The funds are sorely needed, but the VCs have imposed some onerous conditions,... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry
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        • 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
        • 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
        • Mar 2012
        • Article

        Rethinking School

        school systems are improving, it will take 80 years to catch up to where China is now. New approaches, including personalized technology, online videos, and innovations that combine software with classroom programs, could be the... 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
        • 04 Dec 2020
        • Blog Post

        Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony

        concert. Our first show of the academic year just took place On December 2nd via YouTube livestream. Putting together a virtual concert actually required more work on all members. Each of us learned how to use an online software for... View Details

          Joseph M. Segel

          A prolific entrepreneur, Segel has founded many successful companies including The Franklin Mint and National Software testing Laboratories. His biggest success was the formation of QVC, which stands for quality, value and convenience.... View Details
          Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

            William H. Gates III

            to IBM’s. In 1987, Gates revolutionized the computer market again with the introduction of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface, which made the IBM PC and compatibles user-friendly. With $16.7 billion in revenues in 1998, Microsoft is the world’s #1 View Details
            Keywords: Computers & Electronics