Publications

March 1992
Teaching Note

Developing Strategic Technological Competencies, Module Two: Developing Technological Capabilities, Teaching Note

By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton

Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Competency and Skills

12 Jun 2017
Video

The Fusion of Management and Technology

17 Oct 2014
News

An interest in harnessing technology

Edmund Rogers (MBA 2015) wants to create sustainable businesses within the technology space that allow people to achieve their goals more efficiently. (Published October 2014) View Details

2000
Chapter

Information Technology Management Since 1960

By: R. L. Nolan

Keywords: Information Technology; Information Management; Information Technology Industry

Research Summary

Flexibility, Information Technology and Operations

Upton is now examining the role of Information Systems in determining long-term operational effectiveness. As Corporate Information Systems have become increasingly monolithic, the dangers of long-term inflexibility loom large. In manufacturing/operations, the... View Details

January 1992
Teaching Note

Advanced Medical Technology Corporation TN

By: Thomas R. Piper

Teaching Note for (9-287-028). View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry

September 1985
Background Note

Overview of Artificial Intelligence Technology

March 1989
Case

U.S. Controls on Technology Exports

15 Feb 2022
Video

Johnson - Healthcare & Technology

Web

Protect HBS | Information Technology

Protect HBS There are many ways you can protect Harvard Business School information and data. The following will help you think through the best ways to do that, based on the types of information you dealing with. Cloud Storage A great way to collaborate with others,... View Details

Web

Best Practices | Information Technology

Best Practices Help keep information and devices more secure. We all wear seatbelts in cars, wash our hands before leaving the bathroom or preparing food, and lock the doors to our homes when we leave. These are simple actions which keep us safe and healthy. Likewise,... View Details

January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr

By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details

Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

September–October 2024
Article

Boards Need a New Approach to Technology

By: Tarun Khanna, Mary C. Beckerle and Nabil Y. Sakkab

The boards of too many publicly traded companies are downright timid when considering matters involving science and technology. More often than not, they focus on security and digitization—a defensive posture that fails to consider the bigger opportunities emerging... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Opportunities; Technology Adoption

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March 1999 (Revised January 2000)
Background Note

Network Technology and the Role of Intermediaries

By: Youngme E. Moon

Outlines some of the ways network technology is changing the role of intermediaries in the market. View Details

Keywords: Technology Networks

10 May 2013
News

Technology as a Driver of Growth (or Not)

January 1996 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Linking Strategy and Innovation: Materials Technology Corporation

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Materials Technology Corp. (MTC), a high-tech materials company, is struggling in its development portfolio and to achieve a better record of delivering new products on time. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Innovation and Invention; Business Strategy; Time Management; Product; Production; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States

December 1998 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Disruptive Technology a Heartbeat Away: Ecton, Inc.

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Edward G Cape

Describes an innovating start-up company with a disruptive technology to the large, expensive echocardiography machines that leading cardiologists use to create images of heart functions for diagnostic purposes. Ecton's machine is small, cheap, portable, and can't... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Machinery and Machining; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Product; Commercialization; Technology; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
Case

Vermeer Technologies (F): FrontPage 97

By: Ashish Nanda

Vermeer engineers work at the breakneck pace of "Internet time" to develop the next version of their software product, winning accolades from Microsoft management. Even before this version ships, however, they are faced with another punishing development schedule for... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Product Development; Information Technology Industry