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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
versus Apple terms: Should AGR adopt a Microsoft Windows–style ecosystem, where it focuses on its core platform (Burro) but shares data with partners that could build out additional tools? Or should it take the Apple approach of owning all the View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
covering U.S. IT hardware companies, thinks about the challenges and opportunities presented by the firm's new office in Hong Kong. Sacconaghi was previously the only analyst covering IT hardware companies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Powerful Ideas - Annual Report 2014
faculty had spearheaded. Within four months, there were more than 15,000 orders for the findings. A follow-up study in 1914 engaged more than 14,000 grocers, and reports in the ensuing years added wholesale shoe firms and grocers, retail general stores, View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
"hardware" (class structure, clubs, student organizations, etc.) and "software" (culture). I ultimately decided that the HBS hardware – including the case method, Social Enterprise Initiative, and mix of required and...
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- 15 May 2017
- Blog Post
Exploring Career Options at HBS
future is to launch and/or grow a business that helps people live healthier lives. I spent the summer at McKinsey in New York, with a hope to get exposure to different industries and function areas, as well as to expand my network in the healthcare View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
continents. “We continue to build a new category in the digital manufacturing space. We empower engineering and manufacturing professionals to design, order, and commission custom factory equipment as fast as three days, through a self-serve cloud platform and modular...
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- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
hardware and software solutions. Ferguson has been in the water sector for more than a decade, including five years as the vice president of programming at Imagine H2O, an accelerator for water startups. In that role, he saw a growing...
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Tools & Services | Information Technology
training sessions and register to attend. Server & Storage Management Request support for physical hardware that provides core infrastructure services to the HBS community. Identity & Access Management Explore the suite of tools and...
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- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
to this point? First of all, we need to understand that "hardware is no good if it just sits in the corner," said Salinas, and we should focus on getting teachers ready to use it. Hardware is no good if it just sits in the...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
computer snafus, 98 percent of the technology worked well, a good record considering how huge an installation of software and hardware there was. What about complaints that the Games were too commercial? I have to grit my teeth a bit when...
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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
Longhorn is ever successful, the pressure that will place on Apple will be enormous because Apple simply will not have the resources with 8 million active users to ever be able to support it. Q: In the hardware and PC operating system...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
software. And many hardware vendors trumpet their ability to execute these algorithms or store their output quicker, faster and cheaper. New algorithms are seductive in exactly the same way features on a new car are seductive. But let's...
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by Andrew McAfee
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
becoming consultants at major firms, it’s wild to think we’re going into hardware – the kind that makes coffee. But this is where we find ourselves. Olivia and I founded Jova to make a better cold brew device. People go nuts for their...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Oakville, Ontario Energy management applications Paul Grana (MBA 2009) Tigo Energy Los Gatos, California; Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan Hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management, and control...
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- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
instead of being all-inclusive, was partitioned as "Hardware $1,500 + Software $500" consumers would investigate their feelings about both hardware performance and software desirability, and they might get discouraged in the process....
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- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
iPad vs. Amazon's Kindle By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study the compatibility decisions of two competing platforms that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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 View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret satellite imagery. But times have...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
entrepreneurs and investors are thinking about, along with the economics.” Kaelyn’s motivation was rooted in her desire to explore roles in tech that were outside of her comfort zone. “I came to HBS for the MS/MBA program because I knew I wanted to stay within tech –...
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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
public use—major new products of either consumer electronics or computer hardware with their essential software technologies. In the United States, no enterprise had the capability to commercialize new consumer electronics technologies....
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