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  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308065 ScriptLogic®: Point, Click, Done! Harvard Business School Case 508-114 ScriptLogic is a software company that has built a product portfolio that fits under a 'Point, Click, Done!' umbrella; its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

underpin this technology typically subsume the information that users enter, helping the software provide better answers over time. Working Knowledge spoke with Seth Neel, an expert on machine “unlearning” who is an assistant professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 07 Jul 2022
  • HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

a second location in Gowanus. That location was a huge success, too, with total sales of $1.4 million. The Disney partnership The couple dared to dream that they could one day develop into a household name like Ben & Jerry’s, which... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web Author:Marco Iansiti Abstract Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

whether, when, and for which type of customer the introduction of a new channel helps and hurts sales in existing channels. Our framework separates short- and long-run effects by analyzing underlying channel capabilities. It suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

helps bridge the gap between people's moral values and their actual behavior. Combined, the REVISE framework guides the design of policy interventions to defeat dishonesty. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49229 June 2015 International... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008

Details Harvard Business School Case 608-109 Three-quarters of Specialisterne's expert software testing staff are diagnosed with some form of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Usually a handicap, ASD conveys talents especially suited to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of, among other things: product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and future industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

TikTok is developing an in-app marketplace in some countries that takes consumers “seamlessly from videos and live streams to shopping,” the case notes. Most of the TikTok Shop’s e-commerce sales are, for the moment, in Southeast Asia,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

governance regimes to meaningful transnational regulation. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2178540   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 415-015 Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

payment is often delayed more than normal. A software startup, for example, might desire to price on the basis of the value-in-use of its software, such as cost savings to the customer. Such an approach might make the View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

insider stock purchases are significantly greater after SOX than before. Abnormal trading volumes around filings of insider sales are also greater post-SOX on average, but stock returns are not more negative. However, once controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

An Application to Shopping Mall Sales By: Chung, Doug J., Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song Abstract—We propose a Bayesian model of post-entry outcomes. Endogenous firm entries are modeled as a discrete game of complete information. The model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

Internet: adding digital sensors to its machines; connecting them to a common, cloud-based software platform; investing in software development capabilities; building advanced analytics capabilities; and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

fiscal 2000, Circuit City was at the top of its game. The world's leading consumer electronics retailer had delivered record sales and profits for the first year of the new millennium. It was a fitting moment for Richard Sharpe, the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

features another common sales incentive--a "president's club" membership for those employees who sell more software than 90 percent of their peers in a given year. The software... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-062.pdf 'Fit': Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract We present the results of a 10-day field experiment in which over 500 elite... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

Uncharted Play (A) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-039 Yesware (A) Matthew Bellows founded Yesware, a Boston-based tech startup, to solve a problem that he'd encountered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Salesforce, which acquired the firm in 2021. Microsoft, meanwhile, was finally able to draw users to Teams, the free business communication platform it introduced in 2017 as part of Office 365. "Can these collaborative software platforms... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

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