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July 2021
Case

A Close Shave at Squire

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth and Michael Norris

In 2020, just after closing a $34 million Series B financing round, Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon consider how to adjust their business, Squire Technologies, to the new realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their barbershop technology, including tools to run a shop... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Pandemics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Technology Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco

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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

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Israel - Global Activities 2021

2020, when the demand for software engineers was endless, while many of the 3,000 engineers graduating annually from Palestinian universities could not find jobs in the nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be connected, the... View Details

16 Nov 2015
News

Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

was managing pineapples in the Philippines, and traveling to the tax office in Hong Kong and sales office in Tokyo. It was an exciting time,” he says. Company consolidation led Sprinkles to return to the East Coast, where he worked briefly as a stockbroker, then... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2001
News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

presentation stressed ways in which Germany's culture and history shaped its adoption of the model, a relevant concern for many Asian nations with similarly distinct corporate-governance traditions that need to blend with newer models. India's thriving View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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

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

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

01 Sep 2024
News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

very durable and the company offers software updates and support for their older model phones. “That is why iPhones tend to be resold multiple times,” Serafeim says. The second is branding. “It is cool to have an iPhone,” Serafeim... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

16 Nov 2021
Blog Post

How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

should go next. Ultimately, I decided I was most excited about the opportunity at Stripe so that’s where I went! I now work on the Platform Sales team at Stripe. Stripe is a payments and financial services platform for businesses, and the platforms team at Stripe works... View Details

18 Mar 2021
News

Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition

Chicago. About this program When most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But going blind in his early 20’s didn’t stop him from living. Becoming an avid coder, he built 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

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

Science.) The researchers used morphing software to create a visual continuum of animacy, with images of doll faces at one end of the spectrum and images of similar human faces at the other. The images in between were morphed combinations... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

ethical analysis of management decisions, policies, and plans of action. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307059 Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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

November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
Case

Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, Andrew Katz, Michael Morgan and David LaBorde

The Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare case presents one hospital system's efforts to implement computerized provider order entry (CPOE) across all of its hospitals and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues such as standardization of care,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Management Systems; Standards; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry