Computers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2005
News

One-on-One with Grover Norquist

computer or a piece of equipment, it doesn’t depreciate it over a number of years. Year four, extend all tax cuts scheduled to expire in the next ten years. Isn’t getting the federal deficit under control more important than enacting more... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Sep 2006
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HBS Student Battles ALS

KREMER: With classmate and friend Nate Boaz (right), celebrating at the MBA Class of 2006 Commencement. Avichai (“Avi”) Kremer is a man with a mission, and not a lot of time. Diagnosed with ALS early in his first year at HBS, Kremer has become a hero to his classmates... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

07 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

setup is as unobtrusive as sitting in front of a computer monitor. Eye movements are captured by an optical sensor using infrared light reflected off the cornea. When his advisor at Michigan showed him a huge dataset collected from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall's three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
News

High Honors

companies, primarily in the computer and health-care realm. In the four decades since, Johnson has helped build the biotech industry and earned a reputation as a thoughtful investor, trusted adviser, and generous philanthropist. Among his... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

high-tech products could only be found in the United States. These successes were due in large part to government investment in basic science research and mass production. "During World War II, the American public believed science won the war with the atom bomb,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

gold-medal hockey team. Twelve major multinationals, including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, John Hancock, Omega timepieces, Visa, Samsung, and Lenovo, the Chinese computer manufacturer, have paid more than $50 million each over a four-year... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone

truly enjoyed me and that my father's Sicilian relatives gave me so much love," she says. That encouragement - combined with her father's military benefits - enabled her to attend Bennington College, where she majored in psychology and philosophy. After graduation,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

of Satyam Computers (A) Set in 2008, the case details Tech Mahindra, an information technology (IT) company within the Mahindra Group, an Indian multi-industry company with a diverse stable of businesses including automotives, farm... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

a computer monitor, Associate Professor David M. Upton displayed materials from his course, Designing, Managing, and Improving Operations, available on its World Wide Web home page. Upton first presented an electronic case, featuring both... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

2020
Book

Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

By: Debora L. Spar

Covering a time frame that ranges from 8000 BC to the present, and drawing upon both Marxist and feminist theories, the book argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives—whom to marry, how to have children, how to have sex, how to think about... View Details

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19 Feb 2008
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The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with a solid body of work under his belt, including the George... View Details

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19 Dec 2008
News

WHBS, 820 on Your Dial

Almost fifty years before HBS developed a broadcast presence with its own Web site in 1996, the School had a rather limited one: the radio station WHBS, which was in operation from 1948 to 1964 or 1965. It was limited because the broadcasting was done via HBS’s power... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

can see it-- if you look at the roots of technology, a lot of the commercial success and just waves of productivity that emerged from technology, all were centered around the formation of communities. And if you look at the example of the Homebrew View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

two young MIT engineers who cofounded Digital — Kenneth P. Olsen and Harlan Anderson — in exchange for 70 percent of the start-up’s equity. Olsen, who was Digital’s president and undisputed leader, wanted to build smaller, cheaper, and easier-to-use View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

autumn 1998
Article

Case Study: Dell Online

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

Keywords: Technology; Computer Industry

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January 1985 (Revised November 1985)
Background Note

Note on the Microcomputer Software Industry--January 1982

By: William A. Sahlman

Contains a history of the microcomputer software industry from the mid-1970s through early 1982. During that period growth was explosive. Many new companies were formed. However, the eventual structure of the industry was not yet clear. No truly dominant firms had... View Details

Keywords: Industry Growth; Business Strategy; Software; Computer Industry

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