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23 Jan 2020
News

Bringing Education Back Home

“Universidad of San Sebastian is located in Culiacán, Mexico. Culiacán happens to be one of the most violent places in Mexico, and by now, in the world, and the education level... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers

Keywords: by Timothy F. Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin; Technology; Technology

2015
Chapter

Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Geographic Location; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention

February 2025
Module Note

Managing Work Arrangements: Technology and Talent Access

By: Christopher Stanton

2000
Chapter

Strategic Alliances and Technology Licensing in Biotechnology

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Alliances; Corporate Strategy; Intellectual Property; Biotechnology Industry

June 1995
Case

Northern Telecom and Netas (B): Transferring Technology to Central Asia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum and Pamela A. Yatsko

In the early 1990s, the Turkish telecommunications firm, Netas, established joint ventures in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan as miniature replications of Netas's own experience on the receiving end of technology transfer with Netas's 51% owner, Northern Telecom. This case... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Change Management; Transition; Developing Countries and Economies; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Learning; Technology Adoption; Telecommunications Industry; Turkey; Kazakhstan; Azerbaijan

Educators

May 2007
Case

New Oriental Education

By: Paul A. Gompers and Kristin Perry

Keywords: Education Industry; China

Educators

1997
Chapter

Technology Cycles, Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizations

By: P. Anderson, M. Tushman and C. O'Reilly

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation

01 Mar 2007
News

HBS Hosts Chinese Educators

As part of its continuing initiative to help improve management education in Greater China, the School, along with HBS Publishing, welcomed 77 senior professors and deans in mid-January for the fourth... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

2002
Case

Vitamax Technologies

By: Marco Bertini, Eduard Guiu and Jose Luis Nueno

January 2001 (Revised August 2003)
Case

Student Educational Loan Fund, Inc. (Abridged)

By: Peter Tufano

Rick Melnick oversees the Student Educational Loan Fund (SELF), which provides loans to Harvard Business School students. SELF is changing the terms of student loans from variable-rate with semiannual payments to fixed-rate loans with equal monthly payments. Melnick... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Financing and Loans; Business Education; Interest Rates; Education Industry; Boston

Educators

August 1999
Case

Rob Waldron at SCORE! Educational Centers

Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring and growing a small, self-owned company into a professional organization. Focuses on the steps Waldron takes to... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Education

10 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

brought along by the pandemic have ushered in changes to the informal customs around who gets tips and how much, according to Jill Avery, senior lecturer of business administration and the Christensen... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette

June 1999
Teaching Note

Markets for Technology and the Returns on Research TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

The purpose of the readings and class discussion is to help students understand why it often is so difficult for companies that conduct research to capture its value in their commercial businesses. Often new technology leaks more easily to the market. Students can... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Research; Commercialization; Technology Adoption; Value

Web

Executive Education - Health Care

Executive Education Executive Education Expanding Thought Leadership in Health Care With virtual and in-person classrooms comprised of health care-executives from around the... View Details

2021
Other Unpublished Work

Risk Perception, Tort Liability, and Emerging Technologies

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

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2003
Class Lecture

The Opportunity and Threat of Disruptive Technologies

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities

12 Feb 2015
Video

Stayin’ Alive: Technology and the End of Institutions

August 2001
Case

Charmed Technology

By: Youngme E. Moon

Charmed Technology, a California start-up known primarily for its high-profile fashion shows featuring "wearable" computers, has just released its first product. The "CharmIT" is being billed as the world's first affordable, wearable computer for consumers. The key... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Resignation and Termination; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Luxury; Information Infrastructure; Value Creation; Computer Industry; Fashion Industry