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Protecting Yourself Against Phishing | Information Technology

should never ask you for your password or other personal information by an email. Common Phishing Tactics Phishers are getting smarter. While there are still some who give themselves away by using bad grammar or spelling, this is not... View Details

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HBS Live Online Classrooms | Information Technology

high-definition screens create a fully immersive teaching experience. As soon as you make your first cold call, the technology seems to fade away. Session Types From case discussions to community engagement events, let’s reimagine what’s... View Details

July 1987 (Revised December 1987)
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Batterymarch Financial Management: Information Systems and Technology

January 1999
Case

State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter

With Multi-currency HORIZON, a real-time multi-currency accounting system that replaced the traditional batch-oriented single-currency accounting system, successfully launched, State Street Corp. (State Street) began to focus on growing the scope of its business... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Trends; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry

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October 2005
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Information Technology and the Board of Directors

By: Richard Nolan and F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Information Technology; Governance

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A-Z List of Tools | Information Technology

A-Z List of Tools An alphabetical list Login information may be required to access some of the links in this list. 3 3Play A Adobe Creative Suite & Components Alumni Portal B Buy-to-Pay C Canvas Case Template Catering Classroom &... View Details

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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

Featured Case The Reinvention of Kodak The Kodak multimedia case highlights the company's reinvention efforts by its leadership to navigate near bankruptcy and industry disruption from new technology. It explores the resurgence of older technologies, examining if a... View Details

February 1990
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Information Technology in Organizations: Emerging Issues in Ethics and Policy

Introduces a framework for identifying and analyzing the ethical and policy issues triggered by the various capabilities of information technology (IT). Ten IT capabilities are defined (access, capture, speed, permanence/storage. duplication, tracking, monitoring, data... View Details

Keywords: Rights; Information Technology; Ethics; Organizations; Policy

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2015
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Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Geographic Location; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention

September 2024
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Epic: The Future of Health Information Technology

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker

January 1985 (Revised June 1985)
Background Note

Domestic Airline Industry and Information Technology (Condensed)

April 1983 (Revised March 1984)
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Hammermill Paper Co.: Information Technology and Strategy

July 1988 (Revised July 1990)
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Xerox Corp.: Information Technology Support of Product Development

By: James I. Cash Jr. and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Product Development; Information Technology

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology

the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “The ratings given by the large commercial ratings agencies are on the whole remarkably exact.” — Peter P.... View Details

January 2021
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'Mobile'izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability

By: Shawn A. Cole and A. Nilesh Fernando

We examine the role of management in agricultural productivity by evaluating a mobile-phone based agricultural advice service provided to farmers in India. Demand for advice is high, and advice changes practices, increasing yields in cumin (28%) and cotton (8.6% for a... View Details

Keywords: Agricultural Extension; Informational Inefficiencies; Technology Adoption; Agribusiness; Information; Mobile Technology; India

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Harvard & HBS IT Policies | Information Technology

Harvard & HBS IT Policies Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to protecting the information that is critical to teaching, research, and the University’s many varied activities, our business operation, and the communities we... View Details

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Protecting Yourself Against Social Engineering | Information Technology

Protecting Yourself Against Social Engineering What is Social Engineering? Social Engineering is a method that bad actors will use to trick people into giving them sensitive information or access. The types of View Details

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Technology and Operations Management - MBA Required Curriculum

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

Keywords: Technology; Operations Management; Operations

December 2012 (Revised March 2015)
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AmTran Technology Ltd.

By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson

As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,... View Details