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- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
Most companies fail. It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
If the past two decades have demonstrated technology’s potential, one of the challenges of the next ten years will be defining its boundaries. How can new technologies benefit people and societies in equitable ways? How can View Details
- Web
Security & Privacy | Information Technology
risk. Policies & Governance Policies and guidelines are in place at Harvard Business School and across Harvard to help the community ensure compliance and understanding of how to use technology and devices effectively and securely.... View Details
- 2019
- Book
The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation
By: Gerald C. Kane, Anh Phillips, Jonathan Copulsky and Garth Andrus
Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions―but it... View Details
Kane, Gerald C., Anh Phillips, Jonathan Copulsky, and Garth Andrus. The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019.
- September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
Novell: World's Largest Network Software Company
By: Richard L. Nolan
After phenomenal growth and market leadership in networking, founder and CEO Ray Noorda made a frontal assault on Microsoft's core strengths. In 1994, Noorda spend over $1.5 billion acquiring companies such as WordPerfect to combat Microsoft Word, products such as... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Competition; Internet and the Web; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry
Nolan, Richard L. "Novell: World's Largest Network Software Company." Harvard Business School Case 300-038, September 1999. (Revised April 2000.)
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
This company tames killer robots
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- April 2021
- Case
The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition
By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In May 2019, amidst of an ever-worsening trade war between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump added Chinese telecom giant Huawei to the Department of Commerce’s “entity list,” essentially forbidding American firms from doing business with the company. Huawei,... View Details
Keywords: 5G; Telecommunications; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Trade; Competition; International Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China
Rithmire, Meg, and Courtney Han. "The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition." Harvard Business School Case 721-045, April 2021.
- June 1995
- Teaching Note
Prodigy Services Companies Series TN
By: Lynn S. Paine
Teaching Note for (9-393-126), (9-395-129), (9-393-127), and (9-393-128). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
- December 1994
- Supplement
Prodigy Services Company (A)-- Supplement
By: Lynn S. Paine
Allows students to record their personal evaluations of the communications which gave rise to the controversy detailed in Prodigy Services Co. (A). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Prodigy Services Company (A)-- Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 395-129, December 1994.
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
Companies that let their workers decide where and when to do their jobs—whether in another city or in the middle of the night—increase employee productivity, reduce turnover, and lower organizational costs, new research suggests.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
because they can’t afford the insurance contracts offered by legacy carriers, which often require purchasing several months of coverage up front. “Insurance technology can enable cash-strapped drivers to access shorter and more affordable... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
should support their teammates in their personal development, no matter who they are or what their background. The Boston-based women’s technology company Ovia Health is the leading digital health platform... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- August 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Busbud: Building a Data Company
By: Srikant M. Datar, Alistair Croll and Caitlin N. Bowler
The case features the work of LP Maurice (HBS '08) as he decides to take on the fragmented bus travel industry and launch an online business that aggregates and shares bus schedules for routes around the world. His first challenge: finding that the data he needs is... View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Business Startups; Knowledge Acquisition; Customers; Measurement and Metrics; Transportation Industry
Datar, Srikant M., Alistair Croll, and Caitlin N. Bowler. "Busbud: Building a Data Company." Harvard Business School Case 118-011, August 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
- May 2015
- Case
Transforming Alkermes into a Global Biopharmaceutical Company
By: C. Fritz Foley and Nicholas Haas
In the summer of 2011, Jim Frates, CFO of Alkermes faced choices about how to finance the acquisition of Dublin, Ireland-based Elan Drug Technologies (EDT)—a deal that was expected to close in the fall. The case describes the history of Alkermes, provides information... View Details
Keywords: Financing; Debt; Merger; CFO; Financial Management; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Europe
Foley, C. Fritz, and Nicholas Haas. "Transforming Alkermes into a Global Biopharmaceutical Company." Harvard Business School Case 215-079, May 2015.
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
human toll to letting algorithms do the work. “Maybe there is a bias from people who have been traditionally hiring men.” Searches on popular recruiting sites might seem like a neutral way to find prospective candidates, but their underlying View Details
- Research Summary
Technology and Knowledge Transfer in the Evolution of China’s Machine Industry
This work-in-progress provides a historical perspective on the role of foreign companies as providers of machinery equipment and facilitators of technology transfer in China from the last decade of the 19th century to the early 1950s. The project focuses on... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News