information technology industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 1987 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (A)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Technology; Banking Industry

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December 2012 (Revised April 2025)
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AmTran Technology Ltd.

By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson

As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,... View Details

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March 1988 (Revised September 1995)
Case

Xerox Corp.: Leadership of the Information Technology Function (A)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Leadership; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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December 1987 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Structure

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August 1988 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Technology; Banking Industry

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GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology

GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws In the past few years, many countries and states have enacted laws to protect individuals' privacy. These laws cover any information that may be obtained when someone participates or interacts with a Harvard... View Details

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Using Personal Devices for HBS Business | Information Technology

our work. Since these devices aren't managed by HBS IT, it's important to remember that you are responsible for ensuring that they are configured in a way to protect not only Harvard systems and information, but your own as well. protects our devices and the View Details

November 2008
Teaching Note

Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling Business Transformation (TN)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah Soule

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Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Information Technology; Transformation; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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February 1999 (Revised May 2002)
Teaching Note

MicroAge, Inc.: Orchestrating the Information Technology Value Chain TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Teaching Note for (9-398-068). View Details

Keywords: Technology Industry; Arizona

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Web

Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon | Information Technology

and personality through the multimedia technology used in lululemon is just fantastic. The case comes much more alive for a case on culture, innovation, leadership, and change. Michael L. Tushman ; Senior Fellow Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class... View Details

September 2012
Supplement

Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (B)

By: Willy Shih

Rainer Ohnheiser, the President of Carl Zeiss's Business Group Industrial Metrology (IMT), was focused on the threat that in-line metrology posed to Carl Zeiss IMT's core business. Historically, coordinate measurement machines (CMMs) that employed tactile measurement... View Details

Keywords: Performance Trajectories; Emerging Technologies; Manufacturing Tools; Carl Zeiss; Go-to-market Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Production; Performance Improvement; Measurement and Metrics; Manufacturing Industry; Germany

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Article

Managerial Commitments and Technological Change in the U.S. Tire Industry

By: D. Sull, R. Tedlow and R. Rosenbloom

Keywords: Management; Information Technology; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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August 1988
Background Note

Note on the Use of Information Technology in Retailing

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Information Technology and Vertical Integration: Evidence from Plant-level Data (with Chris Forman)

We study the relationship between different margins of information technology (IT) use and vertical integration using plant-level data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures. Focusing on the short-run decision of whether to allocate production output to downstream plants... View Details

1994
Book

Building the Information-Age Organization: Structure, Control, and Information Technologies

By: J. I. Cash Jr., R. G. Eccles, N. Nohria and R. Nolan

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Information Technology

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2010
Article

Has the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development?

By: Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley and Kamal Saggi

This article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of this work in the broader... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Rights; Information Technology; Body of Literature; Foreign Direct Investment; Industry Growth

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01 Oct 2001
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Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

Summing Up Do not read too much into a possible relationship between the development of information technology and the incidence of "upside-down" management. That's the overwhelming message from... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2014
Working Paper

Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance

By: Lamar Pierce, Daniel Snow and Andrew McAfee

This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data from 392 restaurant locations from five firms that adopt a theft monitoring information technology... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Employees

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