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- 2020
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Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
By: Debora L. Spar
Covering a time frame that ranges from 8000 BC to the present, and drawing upon both Marxist and feminist theories, the book argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives—whom to marry, how to have children, how to have sex, how to think about... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Family; Women; Reproduction; Artificial Intelligence; Robots; Gender; Demography; History; Innovation and Invention; Relationships; Society; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning; Biotechnology Industry; Computer Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Spar, Debora L. Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- November 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Steven Sinofsky
Describes a key decision-making process within Microsoft's Office products division. At a time when the PC software business has a great deal of uncertainty, Microsoft's management has to make a key decision regarding the future of software suites. A strengthening of... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Applications and Software; Strategic Planning; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Goals and Objectives; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Management; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Steven Sinofsky. "Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot." Harvard Business School Case 699-046, November 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
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Databases, Cases & More | Baker Library
Databases, Cases & More Search resources at Baker Library, Harvard Library, and beyond. Our collections span databases, datasets, print collections, and our Special Collections & Archives. Explore our resources to locate information for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many nonprofits don’t have a strategy at all.” An excerpt follows.... View Details
- November 1999 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
AGENCY.COM (A): Launching an Interactive Service Agency
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry
Having recently launched one of Silicon Valley's first start-ups, cofounders Chan Suh and Kyle Shannon ponder whether their interactive consulting firm is prepared to bid for work from a very large client. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Business Strategy; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry
Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, and Scot H. Landry. "AGENCY.COM (A): Launching an Interactive Service Agency." Harvard Business School Case 800-061, November 1999. (Revised May 2001.)
- September 2023
- Technical Note
Free and Open Source Software and Hardware
By: Frank Nagle
This technical note surveys the concepts of free and open source software and hardware. It introduces the concepts in general, providing a brief history of their development and numerous examples of how companies employ them in practice. Further, it identifies various... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Patents; Information Technology; Business Model; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Nagle, Frank. "Free and Open Source Software and Hardware." Harvard Business School Technical Note 724-380, September 2023.
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
for assessing differences between countries at the industry level; tracking the implications of particular border-crossing moves for a company’s ability to create value; and creating superior perfor-mance with strategies optimized for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
budget competing with other projects. I don’t know the feedback use metrics on this application, but I’m hopeful management supports the platform’s further reach into the information maelstrom. I suspect every alum would want access to... View Details
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Library Subscriptions
News Sources We have special digital access to several news sources (use your HBS email to sign up): Bloomberg.com The Financial Times Harvard Business Review The Information The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post... View Details
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Conferences or trade shows
How can I find conferences or trade shows for a given industry? Almost every industry holds conferences or tradeshows for those involved in the industry. By identifying trade shows and conferences for the View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to make good relationships alongside great deals, earn respect while earning multi-million dollar returns, and maintain character even when surrounded by an industry full of characters. Let’s Be Frank began in the final years of Frank... View Details
- October 2002 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Intuit's New CEO: Steve Bennett
By: William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Describes the transition to a new CEO at Intuit, a successful software and financial services firm in California. The new CEO must decide what to change and how fast. He must also navigate within a culture everyone believes to be successful but he envisions can be... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; California
Sahlman, William A., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Intuit's New CEO: Steve Bennett." Harvard Business School Case 803-044, October 2002. (Revised May 2004.)
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide reveals the social and cultural values that underpin Chinese business practices and influence day-to-day corporate decisions. Written by Ming-Jer Chen, an expert on business strategy and competition and founding... View Details
- August 2001
- Teaching Note
EnronOnline: Louise Kitchen, Intrapreneur (A) & (B) TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-085) and (9-301-102). View Details
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Public companies: comparative financial ratios
Where do I find comparative financial ratios of public companies in an industry? In Capital IQ: For broad industry sectors (energy, materials, consumer discretionary, consumer stables, healthcare, financial, View Details
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Overview
By: John A. Deighton
I teach about the ecosystem of big data, the role of data in advertising and creative industries, and customer management and personal privacy in an era of individual addressability. View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
reveal the mechanisms of advancement and speculate on what this means for the future of leadership selection and development. Science Business by Gary P. Pisano (HBS Press) Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform to... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Boston.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
How aggressively should an incumbent move when developing an online business that threatens its core product? With Internet competitors taking direct aim at the traditional print newspaper business model, the Boston Globe fought back with its own web initiative,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Change Management; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Strategy; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Jon K Rust. "Boston.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-165, February 2000. (Revised August 2000.)
- July 2001 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Centra Software
By: John A. Deighton and Laetitia Pouliquen
Centra is a pioneer in software eLearning. It is debating how to modify its go-to-market strategy, adding telesales to improve sales force productivity. At the same time, its market is evolving, and management thinks it may be about to "cross the chasm" in Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Learning; Emerging Markets; Growth Management; Salesforce Management; Conflict Management; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Deighton, John A., and Laetitia Pouliquen. "Centra Software." Harvard Business School Case 502-009, July 2001. (Revised October 2002.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details