Computing - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

costs and retail prices down, prompting global production to shift to economies with lower input costs. The manufacture of personal computer components is now concentrated in Asia and manufacturers are constantly seeking to drive costs... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

contrarian approach? Will this come back to bite them? A: Let me first make a clarification. Apple's computer business is definitely multi-sided, just like Microsoft's, except Microsoft Windows has three sides (end-users, application... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly Richard G. Hamermesh, Lauren Barley, and Ginger L. GrahamHarvard Business School Case 809-051 Proteus is a healthcare start-up that has developed technology to embed electronics for computing and sensing in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006

market in over-the-counter derivatives. Others focus on the social consequences of globalization and new modes of communication, evaluating the introduction of new information technologies into African communities and the collaborative practices of open-source View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

When most people think of innovation, they envision developed-world companies such as the U.S.A.'s IBM, Japan's Sony, South Korea's Samsung, Finland's Nokia, or Switzerland's Novartis, technology leaders that have stayed at the cutting edge of dynamic industries such... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

transformation to digital is being driven by two primary factors, according to Iansiti: the explosion of connected devices and expanded computing capacity in the cloud. The study of innovation and business is still in its infancy.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

response is a revival of the management simulation that became the rage before the emergence of the Internet and nearly unlimited computing and storage power. As a developer and user, I can testify that those early simulations were... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

Finally, we overcome the computational burden of solving games of complete information with multiple equilibria by utilizing the GPGPU technology, using multiple processing cores in a graphics processing unit to noticeably increase View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

mutual funds will adopt our approach. We'd love to work with such a service to help make this information available to investors at large. Q: In your analysis you relied rather heavily on Spectrum and other computer-generated data tools. How has the twenty-year... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

Winfrey, the American television personality. "How many of us multi-tasked to get here today?" Koehn asked the audience. "How many women spend most of their waking hours multi-tasking? I'm not talking about the phone and the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

consumers. Webvan was perhaps unrealistically imagined to be such a channel. The difference between Dell and Proctor & Gamble is that Dell can supply all your computing needs, but Proctor & Gamble can never aspire to supplying all... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

chemical engineering—reported the largest declines in research time, in the range of 30–40 percent below pre-pandemic levels.” Fields that are less equipment-intensive—such as mathematics, statistics, computer science and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

bulk carriers called the 76,000 DWT (deadweight tonnes) Panamax. Using earnings and secondhand prices between 1976 and 2011, they computed the ships' return on investment. Swells And Troughs The researchers found that earnings were quite... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

According to the Financial Times, "Anonymous encouraged 'hactivists' to download a simple tool-known as the 'low orbit ion cannon'-that allows their computers to be used to inundate the targeted website with requests and bring it... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

problems, hence the potential improvements from our framework come at essentially limited extra computational cost. We perform numerical experiments drawn from three di erent application areas (portfolio optimization, inventory... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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
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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