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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

(e.g., operations, marketing, finance) in firms that make, sell and/or distribute physical products, or in organizations (e.g., consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, software providers, transportation providers) that... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

annual contest among budding entrepreneurs here at HBS, were awaiting the arrival of software being designed in India that would allow them to demonstrate smoothly-functioning Web sites important to their prospective businesses. Getting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • News

Cracking the Code

applications, connecting data sources and other software together in one place. Its tools are designed to be as powerful as they are straightforward. In fact, the company’s proposition is that many large, venture-backed companies could’ve... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Internet Tsunami

system, much more so than in the United States," the New York Times (June 7, 2000) reported. Merchants, ranging from toy stores to fishmongers, pay a monthly fee to access Rakuten's e-commerce software and customer database. Merchants... View Details
Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 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
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  • 11 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

instead of being all-inclusive, was partitioned as "Hardware $1,500 + Software $500" consumers would investigate their feelings about both hardware performance and software desirability, and they might get... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 24 Oct 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Solutions? Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Borrowing a practice that is common in the open source software community, HBS professor Karim Lakhani and colleagues decided to see how "broadcasting" might work among... View Details
  • Web

RCP Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

anti-virus and anti-malware software installed and running; Has an activated firewall; Requires a strong password from users to log into; Complies with Institutional requirements as described here ; Adheres to additional security... View Details
  • January 2002 (Revised February 2002)
  • Case

Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nancy Bartlett
Describes a specific approach for measuring the efficiency of the groups of computers inside an organization and suggests ways this tool may be used to reduce the company's computing investment while maintaining service. It is a software-enabled industrial engineering... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Style; Information Technology; Applications and Software
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  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Richard Dulude

    Richard is the Co-Founder & General Partner at Underscore VC, where he is focused on supporting enterprise software founders from the earliest stages. View Details
    • 07 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 7

    Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case By: Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan Abstract—Employing software... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • May 1995 (Revised November 2001)
    • Case

    Microsoft/Intuit

    By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
    Microsoft Corp. proposes to acquire Intuit Corp. Examines the strategic fit and the price proposed to complete the transaction. View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Applications and Software; Acquisition; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; United States
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    • 01 Sep 2011
    • News

    RoboCar, the Sequel

    stations, just do it all with software,” Alden explained. “Basically, software is replacing all this infrastructure.” As investors show interest, the 84-year-old Alden looks to the future and sees himself as part of a relay race. “We’re... View Details
    Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
    • 01 Sep 2007
    • News

    Back from the Brink

    high-tech consultants, software developers, and help-desk professionals. Yet it wasn’t so long ago that Mills, brought in by ZeroChaos’s holding company to build up the firm, realized one day that “no one was buying our services, and we... View Details
    Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    Business Plan Contest

    to the traditional track and 8 to the social enterprise track. FBC Systems, the winning team for the traditional business track, provides software that enables engineers and managers in product development to estimate design costs... View Details
    Keywords: contests; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    Case Study: Welcome Aboard

    Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real estate in the world. While many... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

      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
        • 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