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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
face-to-face with customers, competitors, and new technologies — quickly and efficiently. In the airline industry, for example, computer technology has fundamentally changed... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
Arjun Chopra
Arjun Chopra (MBA 2004) is a Partner at FLOODGATE and leads the firm's investments in opportunities that transform the "IT stack" in ways that help companies change the way they do business and compete. Arjun was the CTO at Cambridge... View Details
- April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
Designed to generate discussion on the issues of outsourcing from the perspective of a firm thinking about turning over its IS activities to a third-party vendor. View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Management Style; Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business Strategy; Economic Systems; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Processes; Employment; Emerging Markets; Activity Based Costing and Management; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Katherine Seger. "General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-144, April 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
- Web
Digital Operations - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Digital Operations Course Number 2113 Associate Professor Antonio Moreno Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Project Overview: Digital technologies are reshaping operations, improving efficiency, quality, speed, and enabling new... View Details
- Web
Vaughn Bryant Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results The Opportunity for Service and to Create Systemic View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
In its role as a leader in business education, the School has brought dynamic change and innovation to the MBA Program this past year, most notably in admissions, the cohort structure, the Foundations portion of the curriculum, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
some sort of compensation for it—through donations or subscriptions. That is the path forward. How is social media changing the consumption of information and the consumer’s ability to access a diversity of ideas? —Janet Simpson Benvenuti... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth
product. Heard: “I do a lot of user-feedback calls. My favorite was with Amanda, an executive assistant who had received shares from her employer but initially preferred cash. After we chatted, she changed her mind and told me she’d... View Details
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
Some of the government officials I spoke to wanted to stimulate more technological innovation, especially in IT, and ensure that there was a flow of high-quality university graduates. But please recognize that I was spending time in a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
restaurants during the period between August and October 2015. In an interesting twist, the restaurants were not told they were essentially enjoying a free ad ride. This allowed the researchers to separate the impact of advertisements from the possibility that... View Details
- January 2017 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
Sesame Workshop (A): Bringing Big Bird Back to Health
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Jonathan Cohen
Sesame Workshop was transforming in 2016. CEO Jeff Dunn had reorganized and shifted the iconic institution to respond to digital disruption and a consensus culture. This case examines his efforts to turn Sesame Workshop around. It notes Sesame's storied history and the... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Information Technology; Education; Media; Strategy; Education Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jonathan Cohen. "Sesame Workshop (A): Bringing Big Bird Back to Health." Harvard Business School Case 317-094, January 2017. (Revised May 2020.)
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the family and the firm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Alexander M. Poniatoff
Poniatoff, founder of Ampex, created many of the major innovations in commercial recording technology and produced the first US built magnetic audio tape recorder in 1948 revolutionizing the radio industry. After creating the standard for... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
the files downloaded in the United States come from computers in the United States. Sixteen percent of music files are downloaded from computers in Germany, 7 percent from Canada, 6 percent from Italy, 4 percent from the United Kingdom. A legal strategy that focuses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
online travel guide business, he joined the Internet search giant as director of product management. He was the driving force behind the February 2011 launch of Social Search, which incorporates content shared or created on social media sites into Google search... View Details
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
Some of the best connections were serendipitous, sitting down at a lunch bench next to solar engineers who taught me about the necessity of tracking panels for Middle East projects or investors in South Asian two and three wheeler mobility companies that are working on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
make judgments. In this case, I do plead guilty to betraying my sex. Who is your audience, and has it changed over the years? It’s 70 percent male, in their 20s to 50s. They’ve been hammered by job loss and underemployment. The core... View Details
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Caroline Fay Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Skillist: Changing Hiring For Good Ananth Kasturiraman... View Details