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  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

theme parks—was to ensure a steady flow of creative software for its global hardware businesses. Senior MCA management agreed to the acquisition, expecting the new, cash-rich Japanese parent to provide capital for acquiring more record... View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

2013, the Microsoft board recognized that the company needed a leadership change as its stock had been flat since CEO Steve Ballmer had taken over in 2000 from founder Bill Gates. By doubling down on its proprietary Office and Windows View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 12 Jul 2019
  • News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

know one of the things which we realized as we were looking at the shift from again on premise hardware and software that you buy to services in the cloud that you rent is that inherent in that transition is a massive market expansion. If... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Technology for Learning's Sake

year, more than 150 first-year cases had software that was specifically designed to help students analyze cases. PC use eventually became commonplace in second-year courses and exams as well. (More than 90 percent of all exams today are... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

operations tell their materials suppliers exactly what specifications to meet. Similarly, companies should demand reasonable levels of security from software vendors. Look at the wording of this contract between General Electric and View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 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
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  • January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality

By: Rajiv Lal, Matt Denison, Robert Higgins and Scott Johnson
The CEO of a growing virtual reality company that trains athletes must decide whether or not to stay in sports or expand into other areas. View Details
Keywords: Virtual Reality; Strivr; Internet Of Things; Football; Retail; Training; Startup; Start-up; Start-up Growth; ＂Sports Organizations,; Experiential Marketing; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • October 2013 (Revised July 2025)
  • Case

Rhythm & Blues

By: Willy Shih
The bankruptcy filing of Rhythm & Hues, who received an Oscar for the arresting visual effects in Life of Pi, raised questions about the challenges faced by the firms like it as well as the broader post-production industry. The rapid pace of technology certainly... View Details
Keywords: Post-production; Visual Effects; Digital; Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Los Angeles
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  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Faculty Q&A: Price Check

of all the others. After we built and implemented a software tool to make demand predictions and optimize prices, we ran a field experiment to test the impact of our tool and saw a 10 percent revenue increase in the test group. This shows... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 25 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

hopes? “If you're trying to make new connections and learn from the other people, I wouldn't bring your posse.” To find out, Koning and Hasan invited 112 aspiring entrepreneurs to a three-week software development boot camp in New Delhi,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 11 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

well-known software retailer, not only launched Egghead.com but also placed all of its eggs in the Internet basket by closing its entire chain of stores. Still, established firms have been relatively slow to jump on the Internet fast... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • Web

Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

difficult and daunting task, especially given recent market conditions. This course is a practical, hands-on field course primarily designed for students who are very serious about pursuing entrepreneurship within the life sciences, including therapeutics, medical... View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Leading Questions

CEO also has a plan to empower her team. Synthesis uses Agile Action Planning—a trademark of the fast-paced world of software development—to help the CEO create a 90-day plan to achieve a tangible goal, such as having 50 percent of all... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

  Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

bids. The API is an automated method for efficient computer-to-computer communications—letting an advertiser use software to manage its account automatically. The AdWords API provides a function whereby an advertiser can retrieve its ads,... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

in that enforcement. We see a similar demand with regard to the Russian programmer who was just arrested in the United States for distributing a technology that allowed readers to break through the software protecting e-books. I also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

problem, and speak with users to understand the challenges from a more human point of view. I collaborated with designers and software engineers to develop solutions, which I then presented to the CEO, Head of Design, and Head of Product.... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 01 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, a $25.9 billion program that prompted many hopeful startups to flood the market. But Feeley says the industry doesn't need new View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

serve more and more customers, the bulletproof reliability of their software becomes more important," says McFarlan. He notes that in building its infrastructure, San Francisco-based Schwab was determined to locate its information... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Financial Services 24/7

online brokerage firms, Schwab handles about four thousand transactions every second, and any amount of downtime can be devastating. "As organizations serve more and more customers, the bulletproof reliability of their software becomes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young