High-tech - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

Science article titled "Language Matters: Status Lost and Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations," Neeley interviewed workers at a $25 billion Paris-based high-tech company about its two-year-old English-only... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

jobs around innovation. Make it a job prerequisite. Consider 3M's move to become one of the first companies to tell professionals that they could spend 15 percent of their time on projects of their own choosing. Now many high-tech... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

01 Jun 1999
News

Sixth Annual Cyberposium an SRO Success

The sixth annual HBS Cyberposium, held on February 19 and 20, drew many of the high-tech industry's best-known entrepreneurs and business leaders, as well as more than thirteen hundred participants from HBS and other business schools and... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Losing Our Competitive Edge

the United States to manufacture high-tech products, the erosion of the industrial commons has seriously damaged the country’s ability to invent new ones. The prevailing view of the past 25 years has been that the United States can thrive... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

new book, Platform Leadership, Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano offer an interesting exploration of ways in which high-tech firms such as Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel have established commanding positions in software, Internet... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean start-up, a methodology that has proven successful for many young high-tech companies. Are You a Level-Six Leader? Asking the question, Whom do you serve? is a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2012
News

Model Teamwork

Kungel, Paglia, and Bartels Investing in HBS Great Expectations Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ Mike Johnston and Bill Spears Leading a 50th Reunion Campaign takes a special... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 May 2013
News

William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Bill Bowes has been a force in the US venture capital industry for more than 50 years. As a founder of the Silicon Valley–based U.S. Venture Partners, he helped launch a stellar list of medical and View Details

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

process often sparks ideas that lead to creation of innovative new products, Shih explains. So when American companies allow the production of high-tech products like televisions and memory chips to disappear from the local landscape,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

19 Nov 2014
News

Creating solutions for the oil industry

Retired high-tech entrepreneur Thomas Scambos (MBA 1954) started a company that developed additives to make oil flow more efficiently and also help deal with oil spills. (Published November 2014) View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

Back in 1974, Massachusetts native Ken Goldman headed for California to pursue a career in high-tech finance, figuring that while he might not find much glory, at least he'd find good weather. "The prestige jobs back then were strictly in... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

Alumni WDYDWYD

Melissa Weiksnar

drunk from wells that others have dug." Before HBS, I was driven by a commitment to environmental activism and women's rights. After HBS, it was decades of pushing the high-tech envelope, where creating jobs and growing protégés was... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

FIELD 2: Global Intelligence

Watch the thinking that underpins HBS’s new field method of study Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FAQ For the second module of FIELD (Field Immersion... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

do I get there?" For their study, O'Mahony and Bechky surveyed two strikingly different groups: high-tech contractors and film crew members. While roles in the film industry tend to be more fixed—a key grip on one project will most... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

Microsoft caused by (2) a defense personally led by Bill Gates and (3) by the failure of the company's board to provide counsel. In the case of a high-tech company where significant ownership rests in the hands of management (e.g... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Dec 2021
News

Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn

High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes,” Roche and coauthor Annamaria Conti found that high-tech and medical-device startups launched in uncertain financial times underperform those whose founders have better job... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)

Arden, Avon and Revlon as well as imported goods. She also invested in several new distribution centers throughout New York and built a high-tech communications system to handle the increasingly large volume of orders. By the late 1980s,... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Jun 2002
News

Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training

Murch: from high-tech success to hands-on development (photo courtesy of Steven Murch) Murch: from high-tech success to hands-on development (photo courtesy of Steven Murch) Another in a series of occasional... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2012
News

Investing FAQ

Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FIELD 2: Global Intelligence Why is participation important? Every gift represents an endorsement of the School’s mission to... View Details