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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
to the printer in South Carolina, who would keyboard all the pages twice and then compare the two copies of the page as a crude way of proofing!” Fortunately, computers have rendered that tedious process obsolete. But it still takes three... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing,... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
was trying to figure out what the future of computing would look like: would serverless technology reach a critical mass, and, when will quantum computing mature? Some days I was talking to the leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Fast Answer
Qualitative statistical software for MBA students
How can MBA students use software such as SAS, Stata, NVivo, or Atlas TI? Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) Computer Labs Sign up for lab access ahead of time. IQSS provides Training &... View Details
John A. Young
Marking the exit of H-P founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard, Young’s rise to CEO came at a time when H-P was enjoying a resurgence of growth. Under Young’s leadership, H-P continued the success of the HP-3000 computer, which was popular with manufacturing plants,... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Robert H. Sorensen
Sorensen led Perkin-Elmer to become one of the premier diversified technology companies in the United States. It developed the first commercial super minicomputer in 1979. During his CEO tenure, sales and earnings more than tripled and Perkin-Elmer grew to become the... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Robert W. Galvin
Galvin led Motorola to become the second largest producer of semiconductors in the nation in the mid-1960s, and by 1984, Motorola had $2.5 billion in semiconductor sales. In the 1970s and 80s, Galvin also had tremendous success producing microprocessors, eventually... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Scott D. Cook
Though he was not the first individual to launch a personal finance software company, Cook was the most successful. His focus on easy of use and customer service helped to develop Quicken into one of the most successful software applications introduced in the last two... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
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Tools & Services | Information Technology
manage their digital artifacts. Support We're here with friendly, easy-to-understand support so you can focus on teaching, learning, and supporting the School. Computer & Mobile Device Support Learn more about the devices available at HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
www.bluemercury.com. With a $60,000 budget for the first six months of operation, Malcolm kept a tight rein on unnecessary expenditures, choosing low-cost eMachines over standard desktop computers for her employees' relatively light... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BioMine (now BlueOak), which won the 2011 HBS Alumni New Venture Competition. The competition's judges were struck by the company's smart business plan and how it addressed a very great need. According to the EPA, in 2007 an estimated 29.9 million desktop View Details
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto Thirty years ago, the idea of a machine learning on its own would have stoked the worst kind of sci-fi nightmares about robots taking over the planet. These days, machine learning is so commonplace, we barely notice it. View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
massive shift —of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion of globalization, the mechanization of agriculture, the widespread adoption of computers or the diffusion of the Internet and the digitization of almost everything. It will... View Details
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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge
Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using, information about your browser and operating system, date and time of access and the internet address and page which linked you to our site. The School's staff uses such... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
Brochu went to Silicon Valley and worked for a computer security firm. But like the rest of the nation, her worldview shifted on 9/11. She decided to return to Washington, DC, her hometown, and get involved in public service. She was... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
a business landscape replete with possibilities, they select a single modern-day example -- the electronic computer -- as the focus of their study. Baldwin and Clark argue that the computer industry could... View Details
Martha R. Ingram
After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 08 Jul 2021
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Virtual Event
Join us for a virtual event with program faculty, Admissions staff, students and alumni to learn more about Harvard's MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program. Prospective students must have an undergraduate degree in engineering, computer... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
people who are gaining access everyday," Davis noted, "it's making the personal computer revolution in the early 1980s look tame." Titled "The Digital Field of Dreams," Cyberposium '97 was cochaired by Mike Dodd and Thomas Hoegh (both... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner