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MIT OpenCourseWare
The Software Business
- Instructor
- Prof. Michael Cusumano
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.358 The Software Business, Fall 2005, Prof. Michael Cusumano — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Strategy for Software Companies: What to Think About
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Lecture 3: How Software Became a Business
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Lecture 4: Microsoft® Case Study: Strategy, Management, Organization
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Lecture 5: Managing Software Development: Basic Issues and Best Practices
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Lecture 6: Software Sales Guest Presentation: Brian Halligan, former MIT student and former VP of Sales, Groove Networks
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Lecture 7: Part 1: Software Marketing Guest Presentations: Steve Kahl (MIT PhD student, former VP of Goldman Sachs; and Charles DeWitt, former MIT LFM student, former VP of Strategy and Planning, i2, current Director of Enterprise Marketing, Kronos Software) Part 2: Software Entrepreneurship
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Lecture 8: Open Source Guest Lecturer: Professor Alan MacCormack, Harvard Business School
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Lecture 9: Software Business Overseas: Outsourcing and Innovation Guest Presentation – Izhar Armoney, Charles River Ventures. Specialist on Israeli software industry. MBA Wharton, currently a director of iPhrase, July Systems, Optaros, Proficiency, ThinkFire and Virtusa
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Lecture 10: “Emerging” Software Technologies/Companies - Paper Presentations 1
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Lecture 11: Wrap-Up
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Michael Cusumano, 15.358 The Software Business, Fall 2005.
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