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December 1998
Case

Inxight: Incubating a Xerox Technology Spinout

Xerox has established a new spinoff that utilizes software technology developed at its PARC research facility. This spinoff, Inxight Software, is formulating its plans to commercialize PARC's technology via an OEM component business model. View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Business Subsidiaries; Organizational Structure; Software

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05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Information Technology Ecosystem Health and Performance

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Gregory L. Richards; Technology

27 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption

Keywords: by Diego Comin & Martí Mestieri

1 Jan 1991
Conference Presentation

Information Technology and Globalization

By: L. M. Applegate and R. O. Mason

Keywords: Information Technology; Globalization

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March 2003 (Revised August 2005)
Case

Making SMaL Big: SMaL Camera Technologies

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Scott Duncan Anthony

SMaL Camera Technologies CEO Maurizio Arienzo was trying to decide what market opportunities SMaL should target. The company had developed a revolutionary imaging technology that powered small digital still and video cameras. Its first-generation product--a kit to... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Decision Making; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Electronics Industry; Computer Industry; Massachusetts

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Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth

By: Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn

In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting... View Details

Keywords: Hardware; Country; Business Cycles; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Growth; Welfare or Wellbeing; War; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Europe

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July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
Supplement

Cambridge Technology Partners (B)

By: George P. Baker III, Teresa M. Amabile and Michael Beer

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Technology Industry

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17 Jul 2013

HBS Technology Sector Webinar

This online information session will highlight the resources available to students coming from or who are interested in pursuing a career in the technology sector. There will be a brief presentation followed by a panel discussion.... View Details

07 Feb 2019
HBS Seminar

Chuck Eesley, Stanford University

fall 1992
Article

Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-curve, Part 2: Architectural Technologies

By: C. M. Christensen

Keywords: Technology; Design

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November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
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Foxconn Technology Group (B)

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Beiting Cheng

The (B) case presents Foxconn’s plan to replace manual labor with robots and move some of its employees to more interesting and sophisticated jobs. View Details

Keywords: Multinational; Labor Market; Electronic Manufacturing Services; Health ＆ Wellness; Robots; Automation; Social Responsibility; Employee Relationship Management; Safety; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China

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November 2001 (Revised October 2004)
Case

IBM Network Technology (A)

By: Michael L. Tushman and Robert C Wood

An unconventional manager within IBM leads the creation of a business unit with multibillion-dollar potential, winning over customers and nudging the organization to make the changes needed to achieve dramatic growth. This case provides an example of how organizational... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Management Practices and Processes; Business Plan; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Success; Technology Industry

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Benefits | Information Technology

the HBS Live Online Classroom production team allows instructors to be completely free of technology responsibilities, so they can focus on discussions and make deep, one-to-one connections. Dynamic case teaching, the way cases were meant... View Details

26 Sep 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in ICTE

Keywords: by Yasin Ozcan and Shane Greenstein; Telecommunications

2014
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The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption

By: Diego A. Comin

We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between economic growth and the intensive and extensive margins of technology adoption. The "extensive" margin refers to the timing of a country's adoption of a new technology; the "intensive" margin refers to... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Microeconomics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Relationships; Technology Adoption

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Teaching Interest

Technology and Operations Management

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. Topics include digital marketplaces, technology, and data science.

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