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  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

members versus more evenly distributed within the team). Using objective data from several hundred software development projects in an Indian software services firm, we find that knowledge repository use has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

Student Status: RC Where are you from? Domestic: from all over! Professional pathway pre-HBS: I went to college in the Midwest and I was in undergrad when I had my son. After graduating, I worked in user experience designing software for... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2015
  • Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

optimal pricing for new products. Schematic of Pricing Software Developed for Rue La La to Predict Demand and Optimize Prices. The researchers showed that Rue La La could increase revenue of products in the experiment by approximately 9.7... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories
  • February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Brainlab: Imaging a MedTech Future

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Gregory P. Licholai and Federica Gabrieli
Can Brainlab, a privately held firm, compete with giants like Medtronic and Amazon in delivering the Digital Operating Room of the future? The CEO is pondering solutions for secure exchange of medical information, pricing a new robotic imaging device, and reorganizing... View Details
Keywords: Surgery; Robotics; Health Care; Private Healthcare; Pricing; Technology Platform; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Health; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Health Industry; Europe; Germany; Munich
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  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

not only a company's numbers but also the systems that produce the numbers. Finally, public accountants will have to evaluate the work of the boards' audit committees that hired them. The bill for the additional external auditors and significant investment in hardware... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Profile

Luc Sirois

way: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a hackathon that is attended by an audience of 200 to 300 participants. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with software developers who are eager to break through the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government
  • 05 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA

guidelines from FDA on regulatory pathway for software based products or GDPR framework for security etc. has opened the field for significant investment and adoption of technology in health care. I think today is a great time to be in... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

What Industrial Policy?

services are becoming more tradable, and that creates opportunities for the United States. But let’s not kid ourselves. These services will also find themselves in a run for their lives. Indian companies, for instance, are already doing quite well exporting services... View Details
Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • News

Network Effect

backed if he had chosen the software industry as a career.” Tanzi explained that, owing to recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time with a relatively modest... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • January 2023
  • Case

Proday: Calling the Right Play

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
Sarah Kunst knew the elements of a successful startup from her tenure at venture capital firms. In April 2018, however, her own app – Proday, a home fitness platform featuring exercises filmed by professional sports stars – was floundering. Kunst theorized that... View Details
Keywords: Social Media; Entrepreneurship; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Product Launch; Social Marketing; Failure; Sports; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

opportunity enable the rise of new entrants or reinforce the position of incumbents? Research on this classic topic often ignores the high costs of entry seen in some industries. We offer a novel approach to this question in the context of regulated medical technology,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

Quelch and Rodriguez wrote a case in May about Philips, which started in 1891 as a light bulb manufacturer in the Netherlands and, more recently, has become a major manufacturer of medical devices and software sold primarily to hospitals.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

Paul is primarily interested in teaching data science to management students through the case method. This includes technical topics (programming and statistics) as well as higher-level management issues (digital transformation, data governance, etc.) As a research... View Details
Keywords: A/B Testing; AI; AI Algorithms; AI Creativity; Algorithm; Algorithm Bias; Algorithmic Bias; Algorithmic Fairness; Algorithms; Analytics; Application Program Interface; Artificial Intelligence; Causality; Causal Inference; Computing; Computers; Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Data Architecture; Data As A Service; Data Centers; Data Governance; Data Labeling; Data Management; Data Manipulation; Data Mining; Data Ownership; Data Privacy; Data Protection; Data Science; Data Science And Analytics Management; Data Scientists; Data Security; Data Sharing; Data Strategy; Data Visualization; Database; Data-driven Decision-making; Data-driven Management; Data-driven Operations; Datathon; Economics Of AI; Economics Of Innovation; Economics Of Information System; Economics Of Science; Forecast; Forecast Accuracy; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Information Technology; Machine Learning; Machine Learning Models; Prediction; Prediction Error; Predictive Analytics; Predictive Models; Analysis; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Digital Transformation; Information Management; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption
  • 20 Mar 2017
  • Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

who took notice: Harvard Business School Professor Karim Lakhani. As a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1990s, he took von Hippel’s class on innovation. After reading Lakhani’s paper describing the rising source of open View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

Hoffenheim: Football in the Age of Analytics In 2015, Dietmar Hopp, owner of Germany’s Bundesliga football team TSG Hoffenheim and co-founder of the global enterprise software company SAP, was considering how to ensure long-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne