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05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

tools like an infrared eye tracker to measure eye movements and special vision software that analyzes facial expressions to gauge emotional responses. Experiments in the field are gaining popularity too, covering a wide spectrum of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

February 2014
Technical Note

Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kerry Herman and Christine Snively

Mobile broadband carriers provide network access to the Internet for a range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Communications Industry

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Educators

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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

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active 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

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

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

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Cost-Accounting/9780132109178.page Mixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2022
Working Paper

Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo

We empirically analyze how managerial overrides to a commercial algorithm that forecasts demand and schedules labor affect store performance. We analyze administrative data from a large grocery retailer that utilizes a commercial algorithm to forecast demand and... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Human Capital; Performance; Applications and Software; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry

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01 Jun 2006
News

Bridging the Success Gap

extreme poverty, inspired him to work for social change. An Antioch College graduate who worked as a community organizer in the late 1970s, Navarro then ran a software company prior to attending HBS. “I needed to acquire business skills... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

29 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

question around which many IT vendors design and sell their products. Instead, functionality continues to be king. New releases of everything from ERP to office automation software tout the new functionality they provide — in other words,... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

22 Nov 2024
News

Deep Reading

Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Aug 2002
News

For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15023 Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In settings ranging from product... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

Profile

Jeremy Burnham

consultants, one guy who had been a software entrepreneur, and me, an oil and gas engineer,” says Jeremy. “Not one of us spoke Spanish, and none of us had any experience in consumer goods.” But they all found the challenge exciting. To... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Your Keyboard Is Listening

research. “If we could measure those signs accurately, we could treat these diseases earlier, before significant damage has taken place in the brain.” NeuraMetrix’s early studies have shown it can detect Parkinson’s, says Samzelius. To use it, a person installs... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

databases: ABI/Inform, OneSource, and CareerSearch. This active committee will also survey graduates to understand how they currently use the Alumni Web site. The goal is to design a personal preference software agent that would allow... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

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