computer - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2021
News

Real Talk

Harmeling and Henderson have found, is that most approaches are little more than window dressing—a few hours’ worth of training made up of PowerPoint presentations, computer quizzes, and surface-level Q&A, with little lasting impact.... View Details

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

for assigning children to schools in Boston and New York and for facilitating exchanges of kidneys. Computers enable the design of "smart markets" that combine the inputs of users in complex ways: In kidney exchange, they run... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2012
News

The Accidental Innovator

Boston, working at Wohl Capital, a hedge fund. At night, I’d call her, and using Yahoo! Doodle as a shared notepad, I’d tutor her in math via computer and telephone. Other cousins and their schoolmates soon wanted help, too. It was... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Profile

Janelle McDonald

personal risks. Initially trained as a systems engineer concentrating in computer science, she started her career as a software developer and later became intrigued with consulting. “I liked the variety of work, the exposure to different... View Details

Profile

Jacqueline Beato

general management program with Harrah's Entertainment in Joliet, Illinois. "It's in a service industry that's oriented around people," Jacqueline says, "rather than sitting of front of a computer screen all day."... View Details

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

7 Reasons Why the New MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard is Next Level

companies now. i.e. This is bigger than just you. Interested in learning more about the MS/MBA? Here are four things you need to know. -- Anita Mehrotra is a Class of 2018 HBS student (Section I!) and was previously a data scientist at Accenture Tech Labs and... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Reinventing Radio Days

listeners via computers and other web-linked devices. Notes Kennedy, “Pandora has all the advantages of traditional radio in its speed and ease of use, as well as offering surprise, serendipity, and customization.” About 80 percent of all... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; internet radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

07 May 2019
News

How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal

attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Better Care at Lower Cost

The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen told 250 participants at the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details

13 Feb 2019
News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

pretty typical these days, and there was malware on his computer that had gotten to him via a phishing attack. Phishing: 99% of all the problems start with you or me, the carbon pieces of this equation, making a mistake. The malware... View Details

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

computer programmers. “Mobile is getting a lot of attention, but we're not seeing mobile as a big employer yet.” "You might go so far as to say that four or five years ago, the beneficiaries of the Internet economy were very large... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

01 Dec 2016
News

Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time

paper by Professor Shane Greenstein with Andre Boik of UC Davis and Jeffrey Prince of Indiana University offers surprising—and helpful—insights for advertisers or anyone else hoping to win online attention. Greenstein and his coauthors analyzed activity on the primary... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Clubs Hopping

computing changes the way people use data to make decisions. “We’re seeing more of analytics and big data as a means not just to support the decision a person wants to make, but also as a way to provide insights, questions, and ideas you... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 2001
News

Books: Brand New

marketing of customer-tailored computers — along with the achievements of Heinz, Field, and Lauder — Brand New underscores the power of brands not only to transform start-ups and gain competitive advantage but also to shape new industries... View Details

Keywords: Startbucks; HP, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, eBay; Estee Lauder; John Heinz (MBA 1963); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

delivering reams of sophisticated real-time financial information and analysis to customers through a unique computer terminal called a "Bloomberg." Currently, more than 65,000 "Bloombergs" - the company builds the hardware and creates... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

June 1990 (Revised August 1990)
Supplement

Sun Microsystems, Inc.--1987 (C)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Outlines the financing agreement reached by Sun and AT&T in early 1988. View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States

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March 2017 (Revised February 2018)
Case

VMware and the Public Cloud

By: Raffaella Sadun and Christine Snively

In 2015, VMware, a pioneer in server and network virtualization and a member of parent company EMC’s “federation” of companies, had set its sights on becoming a leading public cloud provider. Two years prior, VMware first entered the public cloud market with its vCloud... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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September 2010
Case

NetApp

By: Das Narayandas and Elizabeth A. Kind

NetApp had undertaken an award-winning overhaul and upgrading of its channel strategy design that accounted for 46 percent of North America sales in 2006. Nonetheless, NetApp senior management announced they expected to grow revenue another 30% in fiscal 2007 with half... View Details