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  • 15 May 2017
  • Blog Post

Exploring Career Options at HBS

3. Elective courses and cases are also a valuable way to learn about different industries Cases span different industries and geographies and are a great source of information... View Details
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

for designing better plastic products. In software, a number of companies let people add custom-designed modules to their standard products and then commercialize the best of those components. Open-source... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

consider specific and general strategic responses to these allegations. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207071 VMware, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 707-013 VMware, Inc., the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

his company, and a discussion of recent efforts by Abrahams to break free of constraints that have limited the size and revenue-generating ability of Improbable Research for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

approximately welfare neutral. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-011.pdf Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Software Development (revised) Authors:Robert S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

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 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean... View Details
Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 30 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Adrian Obleton

transformation. I then spent 6 months at a PE fund investing in technology businesses. Finally I spent a year and a half at Turbonomic, a mid-sized VC-backed software company, in their strategy View Details
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

forthcoming Abstract Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source, while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

with Microsoft (The Free Press), Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano of MIT's Sloan School of Management use this high-tech confrontation to outline a comprehensive approach to strategy in the ultracompetitive... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

superfluous. If fraud is impossible, then why should we waste our time looking? Q: How could someone commit fraud in that scenario? A: First, suppose there was tracking software on a user's computer. Many consumers have had this problem.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

encompass a more active role as an intermediary (like eBay) facilitating transactions; or challenge Microsoft's position on the PC desktop by developing software to compete with Office and Windows. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

whole system. In effect, each module was free to evolve along its own trajectory. By accommodating unforeseen, after-the-fact improvements, the modular approach unleashed value for the system as a whole. At the request of Working... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

bankers, programmers, creatives, and general managers often leave with a team of colleagues to join a competitor. This phenomenon is called a lift out. It is observed in industries as diverse as medicine, advertising, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

environmental, educational, and humanitarian organizations. Microsoft donates almost $300 million annually in software products to nongovernmental organizations around the world. There has to be an internal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

The Art of Naming a Start-up

other apps to follow. The second half of the name, “Cadenza,” refers to an important passage in a concerto where the soloist shines, displaying their virtuosity in free time (flexible tempo) while the orchestra waits View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

Continued success in diagnostic systems relies heavily on product innovation and software engineering. But Ludwig found that the DIS division had lost its edge—a key competitor had improved its own products... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

services and software space has been consistently strong. Students are also joining technology companies that overlap in retail, heath care, and other direct to consumer... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

dynamic consumer segmentation, which operates independent of the homogenization effect, and can in fact be stronger when the homogenization effect is weaker. We also find that bundles are treated as separate products (distinct from... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino