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February 2008 (Revised August 2008)
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Quanta Computer and the One Laptop Per Child Initiative

By: Willy Shih, Chintay Shih and Jyun-Chen Wang

When Quanta Computer, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of laptop computers, first joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, it faced a challenge trying to balance the cost objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Disruptive Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Hardware

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Archiving Your Research Files - Research Computing Services

text file since that file contains instructions on how to uncompress your data. Once you have copied the compressed file and the text files, you should delete the original data files and directory from your account area: researchgrid$ pwd... View Details

February 1999 (Revised February 2003)
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Product Development at Dell Computer Corporation TN

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade

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Keywords: Computer Industry

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March 1995 (Revised February 1997)
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Apple Computer (A)(Abridged): Corporate Strategy and Culture

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers

Provides an overview of the company's history, industry, competitive position, strategy, and organization. Analyzes the culture and morale at Apple. Written at a time when the company faces a very compelling threat to their business, and when morale within the company... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Computer Industry

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February 1998
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Computer Software Company Earnings Revisions may be Needed

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Applications and Software; Business Earnings

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October 1975 (Revised December 1991)
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Some Comments on Computing Manufacturing Overhead Cost Variances

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Workshops & Technical Talks - Research Computing Services

Training Training Workshops & Technical Talks 11ms See below for trainings, reference materials, and resources at Harvard and beyond. R R workshop materials (e.g., Intro to R; R Regression models) from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) .... View Details

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Technical How-To’s & Notes - Research Computing Services

Help Help Technical How-To’s & Notes 1ms Archiving Your Research Files on the HBSGrid Change your Unix command prompt Changing permissions on the HBSGrid Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid HBSGrid Project directory space notifications Saving plots and... View Details

2008
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IBM: Computing at the Speed of Life

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble

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Sample Size Computations in Dollar Unit Sampling

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Information

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25 Feb 2010
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Web cams have long concerned computer pros

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Software Environments via Conda - Research Computing Services

activate it: conda activate py38 Once actived, you can run the software installed in your environment as usual, i.e. using bsub to start an interactive job . For example, bsub -Is python will run on a compute node the python 3.8 version... View Details

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HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications The default size for project directories on the Research Grid is 50GB, with increases granted upon request. When a project directory is full, the system may not save... View Details

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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services

Usage and Policies Responsibilities and Acceptable Use 3ms The HBS research computing environment, composed of a number of servers and services, is a large, shared resource that is often at significant capacity and stores confidential and... View Details

04 Oct 2012
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Baker Library’s Historical Collections Receive Papers of Computer Pioneer and Philanthropist An Wang

August 2003
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Mercury Computer Systems: The Evolution from Integrated Technology to Open Standard

By: Rebecca Henderson and Nancy Confrey

For 20 years, Mercury Computer Systems has thrived, providing products and services that support ultrafast processing of real time data. Now Jay Bertelli, the CEO, faces a critical question: How can the firm compete once the standards on which its products are based... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Open Source Distribution; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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