Publications

June 2003
Compilation

George McClelland at KSR: Planning the First Week

By: Joshua D. Margolis

Supplement to (9-403-163). View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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December 1999
Case

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A4): Sun Peak: Helen Yang and Mark Walden on "Running Sun on Sun"

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner

SunPeak was the largest project Sun Microsystems, Inc. had ever undertaken: shifting Sun's entire business transaction system from a mainframe-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to a Sun-based system. Making the shift would be complicated and financially... View Details

Keywords: Projects; Transformation; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Complexity; Risk and Uncertainty; Success; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

December 1999 (Revised April 2002)
Case

International Business Machines Corporation (A)

By: David F. Hawkins

Perform financial ratio analysis to identify changes in IBM's business mix and profitability. Teaching purpose: Ratio analysis. View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Capital Structure; Performance Efficiency; Business Earnings; Business Model; Private Sector; Commercialization; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

November 1999 (Revised November 2000)
Case

International Business Machines Corporation (C)

By: David F. Hawkins

A financial analyst is examining IBM's 1998 tax note to understand better how the company's 1998 tax note was determined. Teaching purpose: Illustrates deferred tax accounting. View Details

Keywords: History; Earnings Management; Taxation; Decision Making; Business Model; Business Earnings; Information Infrastructure; Mathematical Methods; Private Sector; Accounting Audits; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

August 1996 (Revised January 1998)
Teaching Note

IBM and the Two Thomas J. Watsons TN

Keywords: Computer Industry; Computer Industry

June 1999
Teaching Note

Hewlett-Packard: Creating, Running, and Growing an Enduring Company TN

By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington

Teaching Note for (9-698-052). View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry; Computer Industry

March 1990 (Revised December 1992)
Case

Manufacturing Learning Laboratory at Digital Equipment Corp. (A)

By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Paul Sagawa

Keywords: Learning; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP

Query Data Request Summary window will open Right mouse click on the highlighted file name Choose Save Target As option Save as a .txt file to your computer Open file in Excel View Details

20 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion, said one ingredient for his... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Student-Profile

Ta-Wei "David" Huang

courses are the right fit for me to build my research skills. I’ve been able to take whatever courses I want, as long as it’s useful to me. Courses from Computer Science, Statistics and Economics in Harvard and MIT, so I can absorb... View Details

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

generating goodwill in a nonaggressive way. Q: You write a lot about interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? A: The tailoring of messages via View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

01 Sep 2003
News

Books

Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

published? Kash Rangan: A lot has changed since the research was first published over ten years ago. With the proliferation of computing power and availability of powerful software, much of what we called the Order Management Cycle has... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

June 2013
Background Note

Mobilizing an Online Business

By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman

Entrepreneurs starting online businesses often need to mobilize multiple sets of users or customers, each of whom hesitates to participate unless others join also. This case presents several challenges with similar structure. View Details

Keywords: Mobilization Strategy; Network Effects; Platforms; Internet; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
Case

Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Developing Countries and Economies; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Cambridge

01 May 1998
Conference Presentation

Rapid Learning and Adaptation in Product Development: An Empirical Study of the Internet Software Industry

By: Alan MacCormack, M. Iansiti and R Verganti

Keywords: Learning; Product Development; Software; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry