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- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
importantly, mindset. Photography firms like Nikon, Canon, or Kodak, coming into this new arena, think about it very differently than Sony or another consumer electronics firm or HP or Intel as computer industry firms. So given the biases... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software? The answer to this question may be shifting just as economic and social life becomes dependent upon a common computing infrastructure.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
true cluster in Costa Rica will take decades to complete, but I'm confident that it will be sustainable because the country offers some unique qualities that are a source of competitive advantage — among them, the highest computer usage... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
employees are working in remote or hybrid environments far from the eyes of watchful supervisors. Attempts to reassert the “butts in seats” metric by using awareness technology software to measure computer keystrokes or monitor time spent... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
making many small bets is actually much riskier. That's why Hollywood will keep making blockbuster bets even if the returns over the summer were rather disappointing. Anyone with a smartphone and a computer is now a content provider. How... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
KREMER: With classmate and friend Nate Boaz (right), celebrating at the MBA Class of 2006 Commencement. Avichai (“Avi”) Kremer is a man with a mission, and not a lot of time. Diagnosed with ALS early in his first year at HBS, Kremer has become a hero to his classmates... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
that the most popular rule is rational choice; it is used in about half the cases. To participate in the competitions, researchers are asked to email the organizers models (implemented in computer programs) that read the incentive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
what most people think, I don't think that virtual meetings are as effective. There are a couple reasons. People are simply more distracted and multitasking behind the screen. You know, they're secretly texting on the side of the computer... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
The first thing Linda Hill noticed when she walked into Pixar Animation Studios was the energy. Pixar’s cavernous office in Emeryville, California, is totally open and organized around a huge central atrium, allowing a diverse group of artists, animators, View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
DeRemate.com has founded an industry-wide nonprofit to advocate for the Internet. The company is also involved in supporting a government program that places computers in schools, with a goal of reaching eleven million young people by... View Details
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
forward! But needs some obvious improvements.” (9) The letter begins with Adams’s confession of being “a bit woozy” after a party, noting that his “noble son hath prepared a hot toddy today which has worked wonders and the cranial View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Business School Case 415-028 Aarti Grover and CMS Computers No abstract available Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-051 Sarah Sullivan at Greater Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
been at a tobacco company. But in fact, at American Express, where he had a significant run, he was running the largest customer for computers perhaps in the world, the American Express travel business. And it was based on that... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
subscribers every month. The system was extremely complicated. Computers were not using the same operating systems so there were a lot of protocol compatibility problems. There were no databases that could be accessed. So the... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
World Company has achieved a gross-margin return on inventory investments of more than 300%—a substantially higher return than any other retailer we are aware of. Dallas-based CompUSA, which sells computers and associated merchandise, has... View Details
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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
the background may be the candidate’s home. As remote work has become more common, you may have experienced the distraction of where your colleagues are and what noises you may hear in the background. The same will be true in hiring. Candidates may not own 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
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
computer or a piece of equipment, it doesn’t depreciate it over a number of years. Year four, extend all tax cuts scheduled to expire in the next ten years. Isn’t getting the federal deficit under control more important than enacting more... View Details
Keywords: Government