Operating Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2024
News

Turning Point: Make Your Life Count

Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day

me that the military does not have a monopoly on selfless service – countless businesses and non-profits, both domestic and around the world, are doing incredible things to alleviate human suffering, drive systemic change, and provide... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

students in the early 1920s, the idea for the magazine was quickly taken up by HBS faculty, who charged Arch Shaw, the Chicago publisher of System magazine (which later became Business Week), with producing the publication under the... View Details

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

which involve projects by foreign companies to develop and manage large infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the book details the ways such deals can go bad both for the companies and the countries they operate in. It also examines how... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

FAQ About the Project What is the U.S. Competitiveness Project? The U.S. Competitiveness Project is a research-led effort to understand and enhance the competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in the... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

changing the field of medicine. In the past several decades, the growing use of artificial intelligence in the health care sector has made it possible for computer systems and diagnostic machines to learn and problem solve, mimicking... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2013
News

Passion & Purpose

photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and communities. They are... View Details

Keywords: awards; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture

years as a time to experiment, to learn to launch something, but also to gain the skills on the operational side, and to expand my network. I was great at finance, I understood the healthcare market, but there was a lot of opportunity for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

dramatically over the next decade, and Port Esbjerg plans to maintain its position as a key player in this growing industry. Seeing the components up close Our hosts at Port Esbjerg arranged an exciting afternoon for us to witness a wide variety of View Details

01 Mar 2010
Op-Ed

A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

[process] will take enormous effort, ingenuity, and discipline along with massive investments.” No doubt Toyota will regain some of its lost market share in the short term, to the extent the automaker's production systems can respond by... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto

Rick Grinnell

Systems (acquired by IBM), TrackVia (acquired by Primus Capital) and VeloBit (acquired by Western Digital). Rick also has deep operating experience, having held senior marketing and engineering roles at... View Details

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

many issue areas, Indian gaming has probably generated the greatest amount of activity in recent years. In particular, the negotiations that led to the immense success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut have become almost... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

2025, Section F), Summer Internship: Supply Chain Intern, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) The world needs a fundamentally new source of clean energy to meet our growing energy demands and combat climate change. Scientists have been... View Details

Summer 2016
Article

Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu

The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Balance and Stability; Operations; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination

Citation

Find at Harvard

2012
Chapter

IP Modularity in Software Ecosystems: How SugarCRM's IP and Business Model Shape Its Product Architecture

By: Josef Waltl, Joachim Henkel and Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Business Model; Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Complexity; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property

Citation

Purchase

01 Dec 2009
News

Hope for Reform Dims

for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right compensation View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

says Kendall, executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, which is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that increases the production and consumption... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and nonprofit executives from fifteen countries who gathered for the event examined the operational and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

The CrowdStrike tech security outage in July revealed the true interdependence—and fragility—of global computer systems. Following several high-profile data breaches, policymakers are calling on businesses to do more to fix code weaknesses and protect View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

15 Dec 2024
News

On The Case

HBS. What these three cases illustrate is the mindset, talents, and courage it takes for leaders to make the tough choices required to live their intentions and values. This particular case finds Mihaljevic in his fourth year as president and CEO of the entire hospital... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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