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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Inc., a provider of telecom software and hardware platforms, from 1984 until its acquisition in 2005. Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update In...
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- 13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
closely with our hardware marketing partners, who are responsible for ensuring we continue to build and promote great VR headsets, and with the product teams and developers making the applications themselves.” What’s a typical day like at...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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These Walls Can Talk
that is forecasted to grow to almost $39 billion in the next five years. Shortly after Liang joined SmartThings, Samsung purchased the two-year-old company for a rumored $200 million. SmartThings sells a hardware hub to network your...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2019
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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
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
of goods and services. Progress is slow, and estimates are that it will be years before any substantive change is seen. Some even fear that India’s escalating population will overwhelm any improvements. “India has very good software in its people and very bad View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
is lost money." Sam Johnson (MBA '52) loves to tell the story about how his grandfather once sold the family's famed floor wax to a London shopkeeper. One presumably foggy day in 1913, the elder Johnson entered a hardware store and...
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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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- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
Samsung's devices, but my bet is Google gains the most from Android's success. So finding a way to divest its hardware business may have been wise. But I'm not sure any one move would have been enough. Perhaps the best he could have done...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
test network software and hardware by injecting impairments like errors or delays into network traffic on fiber-optic or copper cable. If you are an equipment maker or network manager, you can use our product to make sure your routers or...
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- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
know one of the things which we realized as we were looking at the shift from again on premise hardware and software that you buy to services in the cloud that you rent is that inherent in that transition is a massive market expansion. If...
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- 05 Jan 2022
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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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- 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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- 01 Jun 2022
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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 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
changes we’ve seen with the consumer internet sector are now beginning to happen in other industries. If you look at hardware, rapid prototyping has really revolutionized the way hardware startups are built. The burgeoning space sector,...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé
long after leaving Soldiers Field, Ranadivé had an idea that would transform the computer industry. "My background was as a hardware engineer," he says. "If you look inside a computer, there's a back plane, or bus, with cards that plug in...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
debuted in 1996, the PalmPilot was called “the cutest tech hardware invention since the first Macintosh.” How important is visual appeal? It depends on the product. In the case of a handheld computer, it’s very important. It is almost...
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- 09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
physics. Learned how to design chips. And I came out to Silicon Valley as it was forming in the mid '80s. And I think because I was in the right place at the right time, it put me on a series of foundational waves. First, in silicon and then, in View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
and withhold by exception.” Have private-sector firms undergone similarly rapid, wholesale reinvention? I would say that IBM’s transformation under Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65), with its shift from hardware to software and services, is an...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
fortune to go remote-first while startups in hardware or the life sciences cannot. Embrace the opening for increased quantity and quality of candidates. Your initial cluster of employees should be viewed as an opportunity, not a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
control room, located in a converted shipping container The hardware reset was successful, and Oscilla recently deployed a version of Triton off the coast of Hawaii. (Known as Triton-C, this iteration should someday be capable of powering...
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