CTO - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2004
News

Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

said. The outsourcing market is estimated at 11 percent of IT — or about $150 billion globally. India is acknowledged to be the largest offshore destination, but a great deal of IT business is outsourced to off-site domestic workers as well. At GM, View Details

Keywords: cyberposium; cost; Corporate Services

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

someone who fits these criteria, boards may find that many talented CIOs and CTOs drop off the list of potential IT committee members.) The IT expert must have not only a solid grounding in the firm's overall business needs but also a... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

licensing and acquisitions and R&D. Eric Dunn MBA ’83, Harvard University; AB, Physics, Harvard University Eric is currently the CEO of Quicken Inc. Prior to his current role, Eric served as a Senior Vice President, CFO and CTO at Intuit.... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Surviving Success

David Strohm (MBA ’80), a VC advisor on Wily’s board, requested that Cirne step down to CTO and clear the way for an executive with the expertise to lead the company in its next stage of development. After the initial shock, Cirne agreed,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

04 Oct 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

developing Wily's technology, landing some important sales, and leading a strategic transformation of the company, David Strohm (MBA '80), a VC advisor on Wily's board, requested that Cirne step down to CTO and clear the way for an... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology

16 May 2017
Blog Post

Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering

US, UK, Canada and India. It was crazy. Harvard also provided many academic opportunities during the Second Year to build my technical and digital health skill set. Last fall, Julia Austin, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and CTO of Digital... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

the culture of government. "Getting agencies into the habit of making data available is a good first step," said a CTO in the class. Other agencies want to look good, too. There is pressure on officials to not get left behind. A... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

29 Jan 2019
News

Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

of Africa’s businesses. Along with CTO Joshua Ihejiamaizu and board member Temi Awogboro, Chow ensures GEN’s programs effectively break young Nigerians out of dead-end, low-skilled work, through its international operations and presence... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

making use of a local app-development company; using an outsourcing platform like oDesk; contracting with Dashfire, a friend's company that charges low fees for product development in exchange for equity; or finding and hiring a CTO or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

you to assemble your team more effectively by identifying what you need in your teammates - whether it's the CTO or the company's first couple engineers. Even in product management, technical proficiency can help better ascertain what you... View Details

Keywords: Technology

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

coding over a new solution." Using a common code base to build applications that automate repetitive tasks is key to serving the needs of various business partners. The Customer's View Representing the customer perspective, GM's CTO... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

team more effectively by identifying what you need in your teammates - whether it's the CTO or the company's first couple engineers. Even in product management, technical proficiency can help better ascertain what you should be asking for... View Details

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Association board in two months. Trouble was, Grinna lacked a technical background. In class discussion, students consider whether Grinna should hire local programmers or a CTO to do the work; outsource the work using a global labor... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

13 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

means for them (Do I need to take an umbrella? How many diners will my restaurant get tomorrow? Should I close the airport ramp today and prepare for de-icing?). What part of your role is different from what you imagined it might be? The best part of being View Details

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein “Pearlstein challenges what has... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

the business. An employment ad for engineers drew thousands of responses, but after years of Taliban rule, few had the necessary training or language skills. Overwhelmed, Roshan’s CTO at the time, Eric Chapman, came up with a new set of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

people in the very beginning, before the content has been created,” observes Chief Product Officer Tom Conrad, a former executive at Snap and CTO at Pandora. “It’s something that a lot of people talk about, but there are a bunch of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

projects, how could the CEO and CTO ensure that a complex organization such as BASF would encourage such fresh ideas to be developed and nurtured in the future? Was this experiment something that BASF should do again in the future?... View Details