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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
The Three HBS Alumni “Defining the 2016 Campaign”
article: Stephanie Hannon (MBA 2004), CTO for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and former product director at Google; Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO of Facebook, who is “leveraging her influence with Lean In followers to mobilize female...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
David Strohm (MBA ’80), a VC advisor on Wily’s board, requested that Cirne step down to CTO and clear the way for an executive with the expertise to lead the company in its next stage of development. After the initial shock, Cirne agreed,...
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- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
the culture of government. "Getting agencies into the habit of making data available is a good first step," said a CTO in the class. Other agencies want to look good, too. There is pressure on officials to not get left behind. A...
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- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
you to assemble your team more effectively by identifying what you need in your teammates - whether it's the CTO or the company's first couple engineers. Even in product management, technical proficiency can help better ascertain what you...
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- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
developing Wily's technology, landing some important sales, and leading a strategic transformation of the company, David Strohm (MBA '80), a VC advisor on Wily's board, requested that Cirne step down to CTO and clear the way for an...
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- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
US, UK, Canada and India. It was crazy. Harvard also provided many academic opportunities during the Second Year to build my technical and digital health skill set. Last fall, Julia Austin, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and CTO of Digital...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
of Africa’s businesses. Along with CTO Joshua Ihejiamaizu and board member Temi Awogboro, Chow ensures GEN’s programs effectively break young Nigerians out of dead-end, low-skilled work, through its international operations and presence...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
making use of a local app-development company; using an outsourcing platform like oDesk; contracting with Dashfire, a friend's company that charges low fees for product development in exchange for equity; or finding and hiring a CTO or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein “Pearlstein challenges what has...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
coding over a new solution." Using a common code base to build applications that automate repetitive tasks is key to serving the needs of various business partners. The Customer's View Representing the customer perspective, GM's CTO...
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- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
team more effectively by identifying what you need in your teammates - whether it's the CTO or the company's first couple engineers. Even in product management, technical proficiency can help better ascertain what you should be asking for...
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- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
Association board in two months. Trouble was, Grinna lacked a technical background. In class discussion, students consider whether Grinna should hire local programmers or a CTO to do the work; outsource the work using a global labor...
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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate...
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by Kim Girard
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
means for them (Do I need to take an umbrella? How many diners will my restaurant get tomorrow? Should I close the airport ramp today and prepare for de-icing?). What part of your role is different from what you imagined it might be? The best part of being View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
people in the very beginning, before the content has been created,” observes Chief Product Officer Tom Conrad, a former executive at Snap and CTO at Pandora. “It’s something that a lot of people talk about, but there are a bunch of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
really, just the natural sharing motions of our users took us into millions of different businesses without having to have a salesforce. It was a really powerful engine.Kerr: Then you worked up to ultimately being able to come to the CIO or the View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
projects, how could the CEO and CTO ensure that a complex organization such as BASF would encourage such fresh ideas to be developed and nurtured in the future? Was this experiment something that BASF should do again in the future?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
any CIO or CTO at any organization of any size, they will say the biggest challenge they have when they integrate new tools or platforms into their IT stack is that people don’t use them. They get no engagement. And that is really, really...
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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
a path where they start to pay us. We have many examples of where the CTO of a company like Salesforce was a longtime personal customer of Cloudflare and now Salesforce is a large customer of ours. At the end of the day our mission is to...
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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
investors’ technical EiRs and/or network. When I was CTO at DigitalOcean, it was amazing to have someone like Martin Casado at a16z, our lead investor, to bounce ideas off of and even help us with some tricky architecture decisions....
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by Julia Austin