Enterprise Computing - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

case studies and examples with key concepts from economics, sociology, computer science, consumer psychology, and management studies and presents them all in a clear, accessible, and entertaining style. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2006
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Faculty Books

Create Corporate Synergies by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (DBA ’73) (HBS Press) Professor Kaplan and his colleague apply their Balanced Scorecard management system to corporate-level strategy, describing how highly successful View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

currently tiny efforts to grow. As a result, the efforts of Bpeace (Business Council for Peace), a nonprofit network of business professionals, to encourage entrepreneurs in Afghanistan and other conflict-ridden regions, will benefit, as will the nascent businesses of... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

Teaching Interest

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By: Lynda M. Applegate

I currently teach a module in the HBS Owner President Management (OPM) program that is entitled Innovation @Work. The module is designed to provide a general manager perspective on how to lead innovation and transform organizations, industries, and society. The role... View Details

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

when she took a social enterprise class at HBS. "When I got to the social enterprise class, the creativity and the grandness of plans and sense of empowerment among the students and in the cases people... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

A Conversation with Dean Clark

manage technology in their subsequent careers. BULLETIN: How would you assess the state of the School today? CLARK: This really is a great time to be part of the Harvard Business School. There is a spirit of innovation and enterprise that... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

been a series of interwoven threads. Coming back to HBS has been an opportunity to tie them together," says Senior Lecturer Diana Barrett. The most recent of the three to return to HBS, Barrett joined the faculty in 1998, drawn by her love of teaching, the School's... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

with a member of the Executive Education staff. EE: How has "Delivering Information Services" evolved in the nearly thirty years it has been taught? Nolan: The course has kept pace with all three of the dominant eras in information technology (IT): from... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success

of the villages have seen slow progress, and one dropped out entirely, but Ruhr focuses on what CREATE! is building, which includes a workforce trained in computer science and agriculture that can now use QuickBooks for accounting. “We... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

through the application and it times out, you have to start back at the beginning. So let's say that you're applying for food assistance and you don't just have a personal computer at home. That means you go to the library, you use a... View Details

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Sara B. Wilkinson Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

mainframe computer system was announced which she was asked to teach in her branch. She retired in 1992 as a liaison between programming groups and the then head contractor on the Space Station. Before HBS At HBS After HBS Interview by... View Details

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

49 on the latest Fortune 500 listing. Anyone with a computer is familiar with the phrase "Intel Inside." With this book, professor Tedlow has taken us inside Andy Grove. Richard, it's great to have you with us today. Aisner:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

January 2008 (Revised September 2008)
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Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (C)

By: John A. Quelch and David Chen

In October 2007, the OLPC reported production delays and missed its shipment date. In early November, the $100 PC finally went into production, with initial shipments planned for Uruguay and Mongolia, and mid-month launched the "Give One, Get One" program. It enabled... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; For-Profit Firms; Partners and Partnerships; Information Infrastructure; Problems and Challenges; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Computer Industry; Canada; Mongolia; Uruguay; United States

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01 Sep 2007
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Last Look - September 2007

what the case was about, I do remember that some enterprising classmate Marty McGowan, Section C called the company and got it to come to the stadium to launch a rocket. The company apparently had to get temporary one-day or one-hour... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 1996
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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

01 Oct 1997
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Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

The Internet is becoming as familiar a presence in households and offices as the telephone, but, like many big ideas, it was once no more than a twinkle in someone's magazine story. Writing in the days before computers had even become... View Details

01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

supporting private-sector research; another $2 billion was earmarked for R&D that the government wanted scientists and engineers to pursue to help local enterprises improve their technology and become more competitive internationally. But... View Details

09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

English,” he says. The best part of his job, says Offensend, is watching EDC’s work being used in the field and seeing its impact. One recent example thrills him. The percentage of female students who took AP computer science courses in... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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