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March 1989
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02 Jun 2021

Women in Industry Series: Technology

Please join Christina Wallace, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, for a panel discussion as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the Tech space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has played a role their journeys. View Details

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Technology and Operations Management (TOM)

By: Willy C. Shih

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as... View Details

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Contact Us | Information Technology

Contact Us Multimedia cases, video cases, and case supplements are self-serve. To use a case, please search in the catalog and post the link for students/participants. To discuss a new project, please email Ruth Page, Director of Multimedia Development, rpage@hbs.edu . View Details

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Cloud Storage | Information Technology

Cloud Storage Best Practices Over the past few months, most of us have probably seen a drastic increase in our use of cloud storage solutions. We're being asked more and more to collaborate at a distance, even when it's with people who we have worked side by side with... View Details

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MBA Students | Information Technology

MBA Students Harvard Business School (HBS) IT delivers and supports the pioneering technology solutions you need to better understand and shape the future of business. Whether it’s behind the scenes helping to create dynamic case videos... View Details

26 Apr 2016
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Astraeus Technologies wins 2016 New Venture Competition Business Track

August 1997 (Revised September 1997)
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APV Technology Partners II, L.P.

By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey M. Anapolsky

Keywords: Technology Industry

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February 2004 (Revised February 2004)
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Dividend Policy at Linear Technology

By: Malcolm P. Baker

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Keywords: Stocks; Technology Industry

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06 Apr 2021
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Disrupting the Waste Management Industry with Technology

May 2018
Teaching Note

AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-486. View Details

Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States

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September 2005
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IBM Network Technology (A) (Abridged)

By: Michael L. Tushman

An unconventional manager within IBM leads the creation of a business unit with multibillion-dollar potential, winning over customers and nudging the organization to make the changes needed to achieve dramatic growth. Exemplifies how organizational design and... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Teams; Leadership Style; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Employees; Information Technology Industry

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December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
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PlaceWare: Issues in Structuring a Xerox Technology Spinout

Xerox has established a process to spin out technologies it develops that do not fit with its current business needs. To structure these "spinouts," a number of issues arise on how to treat people and intellectual property. PlaceWare is the first technology to go... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Commercialization; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property

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April 1987 (Revised July 1988)
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Managing Information Technology: Technology Overview

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Information Technology; Management

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2023
Working Paper

Learning to Use: Stack Overflow and Technology Adoption

By: Daniel Jay Brown and Maria P. Roche

In this paper, we examine the potential impact of Q&A websites on the adoption of technologies. Using data from Stack Overflow – one of the most popular Q&A websites worldwide – and implementing an instrumental-variable approach, we find that users whose questions... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Knowledge Sharing

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March 1987
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Introduction to Computer and Communications Technology

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Communication Technology; Hardware

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March 1995
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A Role-based Ecology of Technological Change

Keywords: Information Technology; Change

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March 1988
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Leadership and the Information Technology Organization

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Leadership; Information Technology; Organizations

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May 2017 (Revised June 2017)
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ATH Technologies (A): Making the Numbers

By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard

An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) refocusing process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must... View Details