Publications

Mar 2012
Article

Choosing the United States

location decisions are incremental shifts of activities offshore; imagine a bucket with many small pinpricks. For instance, a software firm promotes American developers to high-end positions and hires workers from Eastern Europe to do... View Details

Brandon Farwell

Brandon Farwell is a General Partner at Xfund. Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments including Box (NYSE: BOX), Yammer (acq., MSFT), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Newsle (acq., LNKD), SugarCRM,... View Details

Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research from professor Raffaella Sadun finds that the answer often lies in the technology that a company deploys. Key concepts include: Enterprise Resource Planning software... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

01 Jun 2002
News

Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training

the right field at precisely the right time. Upon adding an MBA to his computer science degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, Murch (who graduated from HBS as a Baker Scholar) went straight to Microsoft. For more than six years, he had a hand in the development... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Health, Social Assistance

01 May 2013
News

Paolo M. Pellegrini, MBA 1985 & Henrietta Jones

first Italian minicomputer was developed,” recalls Pellegrini, who now lives in New York City. “In high school, I had summer internships at various software development companies, and I credit those experiences with a big portion of my... View Details

December 2018 (Revised March 2019)
Case

Camber Creek & Measurabl Inc.

By: Marco Di Maggio and Lauren G. Pickle

In late 2017, Camber Creek, a real estate technology focused venture capital firm, had to evaluate a potential investment in Measurabl Inc. which provides real estate companies of all sized with a full SaaS solution for sustainability data. View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Applications and Software; Environmental Sustainability

07 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

Although Asian countries have been able to use cost advantages and software coding prowess to attract outsource business from around the world, the region is quickly moving up the value chain to challenge America's leadership in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork

improve the green workplace by providing job training, “a Coursera for solar,” as Sam described it. Like many small businesses, though, the founders’ appreciation of the customer-product fit evolved. Today, the company’s website describes it as “a View Details

Carissa Bryce Christensen

complex, cutting-edge tech environments. She co-founded QxBranch, a quantum computing software firm acquired by Rigetti Computing in 2019, and The Tauri Group LLC, a government contractor acquired by LMI in 2019. She helped incubate... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence;#10;#Aviation & Aerospace;#17;#Defense, Military, & Space

11 May 2018
News

Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact

Photo via CBS News Photo via CBS News A recent CBS news story on Nigerian tech startup Andela—a software development firm—includes an interview with Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014), Andela’s president of global operations. Reflecting on his... View Details

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone, for example, replaced by a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2025
News

Venture: Time Heals All

transparent scheduling that takes their work-life balance into account, making for happier nurses who are more likely to stay put. Agile Software M7 built its platform in a modular way, so it can be quickly and easily configured to meet... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

with some of our 2017-18 HBS Leadership Fellows, to hear abo... Tech Accelerator for Nonprofits Supports Impact that Scales Kevin Barenblat 27 Jul 2017 Five years ago my social marketing software company was acquired and I was granted a... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Taking Flight

Software published its first title, Guide to Birds of North America. The week of that first CD-ROM’s release (the company now markets seventy titles), Thayer and his wife, Roz, were spotting penguins in Antarctica, leaving their three... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

8 AM – 8 PM MDT, 18 May 2018
HBS Alumni Events

HBS Hacks: Solving For The Future of Work in San Francisco

Collaborate with fellow HBS alumni to create the actionable solutions to one of societys most vexing challenges. View Details

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

September 1998 (Revised May 1999)
Case

Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Plan; Research; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti

In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Founder; Co-founders; Women Executives; Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Product Launch; Research and Development; Competition; Construction Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Canada

November 2017
Case

iRobot: Moving Beyond the Roomba

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

The makers of the Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner, connected the latest version of their product to the Internet. This new feature opened up a wealth of new opportunities and challenges for the company. View Details

Keywords: Irobot; Smart Home; Connected Home; Roomba; Vacuum; Mapping; Internet Of Things; Connected Products; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; United States