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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
HBS 2+2 and Yale SOM Information Session at MIT
Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA at HBS and the Silver Scholars Program at the Yale School of Management. The event will include a presentation View Details
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Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense" - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
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- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
skilled employees for three weeks to non-profit health organizations to provide pro bono consulting and technology services. It focuses on a handful of projects each year selected from an applicant pool of...
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- November 2016
- Case
ShotSpotter
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
SST, Inc. offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States in addition to a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business-to-government sales model, and the company had been...
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ShotSpotter;
SST;
Internet Of Things;
IoT;
Smart Cities;
Public Entrepreneurship;
Enterprise Sales;
Scaling And Growth;
Government;
Public Sector;
Innovation;
Ralph Clark;
Entrepreneurship;
Sales;
Innovation and Invention;
Public Administration Industry;
California;
United States
Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah McAra. "ShotSpotter." Harvard Business School Case 817-034, November 2016.
- February 2018 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Rise of the Drones: Identified Technologies
By: Andy Wu and George Gonzalez
The founder and CEO of Identified Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based drone software and services company, faces a dilemma when San Francisco–based DroneDeploy begins to disrupt the industry with its drone software platform. Identified Technologies needs to consider...
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Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Disruption;
Network Effects;
Computer Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Pittsburgh;
San Francisco
Wu, Andy, and George Gonzalez. "Rise of the Drones: Identified Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 718-482, February 2018. (Revised December 2019.)
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
we’re now on our ninth class. Over those nine classes of interns, we have had 4,200 applicants and have accepted 52 interns, so it is very competitive” Tingle said. Part of the draw for View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
further improve efficiency, the number of stock-keeping units were reduced from about 4,000 to 1,000+, and offered special packages that included vegetables, fruit, meat, and medicine to accelerate sorting...
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- 22 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative
from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability By Aditya Desai I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability View Details
- January 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Reinventing Adobe
By: Sunil Gupta and Lauren Barley
By 2013, Adobe had reinvented itself from a publisher of popular software such as Photoshop and Acrobat to a digital marketing and digital media company. In May 2013, the company decided to stop selling its software as a package in favor of Creative...
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Gupta, Sunil, and Lauren Barley. "Reinventing Adobe." Harvard Business School Case 514-066, January 2014. (Revised January 2015.)
- June 2005 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Oracle vs. salesforce.com
By: David B. Yoffie and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Explores the phenomenon of software becoming a service. Salesforce.com has catapulted into the lead for offering a customer relationship management (CRM) solution as a Web-based service. Siebel, the leader in CRM packaged software sales, has to devise a strategy to...
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Customer Relationship Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Software;
Web Services Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Oracle vs. salesforce.com." Harvard Business School Case 705-440, June 2005. (Revised September 2006.)
- October 2011 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Ensighten
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Michael J. Roberts
Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur must weight legal and business issues vs. his desire to land the key customer.
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Applications and Software;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Contracts;
Information Technology Industry
Goldberg, Lena G., and Michael J. Roberts. "Ensighten." Harvard Business School Case 812-050, October 2011. (Revised October 2013.)
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European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
these Disclosures. These Disclosures concern In-scope Processing by any means, including hardcopy (such as paper applications or forms) and electronic means (such as websites View Details
- January 1993 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Adventurous Computer Games, Inc.
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
A new company producing computer games must begin to capitalize computer software development cost. To do so requires a cost accounting system, decisions about which costs to capitalize, and how to match costs to future revenues. Teaches accounting standards for...
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Product Development;
Applications and Software;
Cost Accounting;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr. "Adventurous Computer Games, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 193-088, January 1993. (Revised May 2004.)
- 18 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
My Transformational Experience at HBS
Erica Santoni, MBA 2019 and co-president of the Women’s Student Association (WSA), had doubts about applying to Harvard Business School. Learn how the application process was the first of many...
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- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for the future: Free View Details
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by Lane Lambert
- December 2012 (Revised January 2015)
- Technical Note
Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model
By: Howard Stevenson, Michael Roberts and Jim Sharpe
The funded search model is one alternative for individuals who, at some point in their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the funded search, as a means to entrepreneurship through acquisition and describes the path to buy and run a business...
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Search Funds;
Search;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Investor Behavior;
Career Planning;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Fundraising;
Negotiation;
Entrepreneurship;
Capital Structure;
Borrowing and Debt;
Personal Development and Career;
Private Ownership;
Acquisition;
Finance;
Leveraged Buyouts
Stevenson, Howard, Michael Roberts, and Jim Sharpe. "Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model." Harvard Business School Technical Note 813-119, December 2012. (Revised January 2015.)
The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million
The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details
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Strategies for Cross-National Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic DevelopmentCED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Research & Applications Research & View Details