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- 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 company to crack the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is...
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- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
a January 2, 2004, article in the Wall Street Journal, large corporations are increasingly unwilling to pay for expensive upgrades to software programs. This indicates that software providers are overserving...
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- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
Nearly all notebook computers, cell phones, and other handheld devices are now designed in Asia. The domestic software industry, which initially outsourced only simple code-writing projects to Indian firms, has more recently signed on...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- Web
Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services
HBS IT if the functionality of a backup is needed (HBS members only). HBS IT regularly scans the research storage areas for viruses as a part of the Harvard University security policy. Normally viruses are quarantined or removed via antivirus View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
software and services company. The CRC is not her first startup: in 1986 Darwall cofounded ViewStar Corporation, a software company serving Fortune 500 clients that was eventually acquired by Mosaix. At the...
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Susan Young
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic cast room. Students calculate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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 software...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
lump sums to estimations of RVU volumes if the crisis didn’t happen. My hope is that this crisis will provide the opportunity to rethink physician compensation in a way that maps physician incentives to the behaviors that generate value...
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by Danielle Kost
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
variety, process flexibility and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment, in that we observe products that fulfill the same function...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
requirements. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19018 Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture By:Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Infosys and its iconic co-founder, N.R. Narayana Murthy, were admired and respected for delivering excellence while conducting business in a legal, transparent, and ethical manner. It was one of the few software companies that recognized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
framework to identify the role of regional clusters-groups of closely related and complementary industries operating within a particular region-in regional economic performance. We exploit newly available data from the U.S. Cluster View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
BrightStar. As franchises began to sell, Sun quickly set about building scalable operations and infrastructure, including a centralized technology function and custom software for franchisees. As more and more locations opened around the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I...
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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
competitive situations there is a one-to-one mapping between strategy and business model, which makes it difficult to separate the two notions. We show that the concepts of strategy and business model differ when there are important...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
planning, she writes: agreeing on team goals; gaining clarity on each member’s role, function, and constraints; understanding the available resources, ranging from budgets to information; and identifying shared norms that map out how...
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