Computers - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

concerned with not just reviews but all the factors that create trust with their users. Do People Watch Online Video Ads? Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch The mere fact that an online video advertisement reaches a viewer's computer... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

experimentation and are triggering fundamental changes in R&D processes and performance in such fields as integrated circuit design, automotive development, and pharmaceutical drug discovery. Computer modeling and simulation, rapid... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

01 Mar 2007
News

Ideas That Stick

we talk about concrete details and specific actions and stories. You write that too much knowledge can be a bad thing. Think about the stereotypical IT guy in your office. He knows a ton about computers and software, but you call him over... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone

truly enjoyed me and that my father's Sicilian relatives gave me so much love," she says. That encouragement - combined with her father's military benefits - enabled her to attend Bennington College, where she majored in psychology and philosophy. After graduation,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

Michael R. Bloomberg

Through the development of a proprietary computer system, Bloomberg built one of the most successful financial news, information and analysis services in the country. Competing against stalwarts like Dow Jones and Reuters, Bloomberg... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

according to the research. One reason might be that costs are lower for companies that moved production offshore, and the resulting, more efficient firms developed higher-skilled service work, like computer science, to fill the employment... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

experimented with computers and with designing an electronic office of the future. It formed Xerox Computer Services, acquired Scientific Data Systems, and opened its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 May 2013
News

Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986

computer science and economics. “For my graduate degree, I knew I wanted to study finance, and I knew I wanted the HBS brand,” she says. “I maxed out on every possible type of student loan to make that happen.” That experience was the... View Details

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Pasha Nahass

Pasha Nahass entered Stanford with an interest in political science and an eye toward government service. But in his freshman year, he took a computer science course “just to get the applied engineering requirement out of the way.” To his... View Details

Keywords: Tech

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands - at more than $525 million. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, stores offer a full range of copying, fax, and mailing services, as well as computing and printing self-service, videoconferencing, and... View Details

Portrait Project

Tomiwa Igun

who could afford diesel-powered generators. Conditioned to expect inconsistent electricity supply, my life was impacted in many ways. At home, I could not study at night until my father returned to turn on the generator. At boarding school, View Details

Fast Answer

Energy data sources: consumption and efficiency

Database - browse by topic. International energy and data analysis by US Energy Information Administration (EIA) Additional sources: U.S. Department of Energy Data Explorer -- Collections of files, figures and data plots, multimedia and... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

computing and mobility. That has the potential to change the economics of the Internet business and to redistribute profits yet again.” — HBS professor David Yoffie talking about the potential economic effects of people increasingly... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Information

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 07 Mar 2022
Virtual Programming

Considering a Career Transition? Connect with HBS

Are you thinking about making a career move? Or, do you want to work with a coach on some aspect of your leadership? Maybe you want to step back and reflect on your purpose, power up your LinkedIn profile, or practice for an upcoming interview. If these aspects of... View Details

Thomas G. Stemberg

Staples stores throughout the US, Stemberg added new services for small businesses including a copier center, a technology resource for managing computer networks, and office furniture. Staples became one of only six retail outlets to... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Oct 1996
News

No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

Profile

Kanwaljit Bakshi

"I've no idea how I did it. I didn't sleep much," she laughs. After graduation, 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... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

Profile

Oded Navon

me realize that I wanted to specialize in something where I could have more control over the result and create things that would impact many people all at once. So, I dove into another passion of mine – computers – and went on to become a... View Details

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