Computers - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

where people spend both their social and their professional lives by themselves, at home on their computers or mobile devices. We’re losing aspects of our culture as a consequence of not being together. To use the analogy of a DJ concert:... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

Courtesy Meaghan Fitzgerald How did you become interested in virtual reality (VR)? “I have always been a fan of sci-fi and future tech. VR seemed to hold this promise of being something between a teleportation machine and a future View Details

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

corporate world, taking on the role of director of community relations for John Hancock Financial Services. “It was a huge shift for me, learning that, in a big, bureaucratic corporate culture, anytime you wanted to get your computer... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

19 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

guidance algorithms to help robots intelligently operate on beating hearts, the lungs, and brain. My Master of Science (MS) degree helped me develop a vernacular for technical concepts in robotics, cellular biology, human anatomy, and View Details

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... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training

the right field at precisely the right time. Upon adding an MBA to his computer science degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, Murch (who graduated from HBS as a Baker Scholar) went straight to Microsoft. For more than six years, he... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Health, Social Assistance

December 2022
Supplement

Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes

Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies,... View Details

Keywords: Labor Markets; Freelancers; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Human Capital; Employment; Digital Platforms; Global Range; Adoption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Australia; United States; Philippines

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1998
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The Converging Worlds of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment

By: P. W. Bane, S. P. Bradley and D. J. Collins

Keywords: Communication Technology; Information Technology; Entertainment; Trends; Transition; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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29 Jan 2010
News

Thoughts on the iPad

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti, Karim Lakhani, Daniel Snow, & Stefan Thomke; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

delivering reams of sophisticated real-time financial information and analysis to customers through a unique computer terminal called a "Bloomberg." Currently, more than 65,000 "Bloombergs" - the company builds the hardware and creates... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

computer ended the use of typewriters, or how electronic fuel injection systems replaced carburetors. It's probably more accurate to say the Apple Watch introduces several impressive incremental innovations that improve and combine... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

co-founded a Y Combinator-backed biotech microbiome startup during school. Alex and Shad also co-host a popular podcast, “Physicians Off the Beaten Path,” interviewing physicians who have ventured into non-clinical careers. Alex is currently finishing a PhD in View Details

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

computer problems on a website, companies that design those interactions purely to cut costs don't succeed. But when they actively partner with their customers to deliver a better service experience," she relates, "that's the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the Yogi Tea Company), for which he serves as executive vice president. "Our goal is to provide products and services... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

them and many agents are reluctant to sell them. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510040-PDF-ENG A Letter from Prison Eugene SoltesHarvard Business School Case 110-045 Stephen Richards, the former global head of sales at View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

port their data between products securely and reliably. This paper reviews the rationale for these principles and examines their impact on competition in the cloud computing ("Internet-software") environment. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

range of ideas and voices assembled by a succession of talented editors. From ardent speeches on leadership by the School's founders, to impassioned editorials about the causes of the Great Depression, to insightful commentary on the dawn of the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The Information Age had... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Counterfactual simulations of our structural model show large gains from screening potential hires via psychometric measurement and training to improve managerial practices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55871 Advancing View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

successful product managers, general managers, startup founders, and CEOs of mature technology companies. Blending technical skills and business management knowledge Like all students in the MS/MBA program, Kaelyn and Adam had backgrounds in View Details

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