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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Making a Difference in the World

organizations waste $2.8 billion every year powering unused PCs. In 2009, these unused PCs emitted approximately 20 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent — equal to the annual emissions of 4 million cars. Transportation accounts for... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Negative Ad Power

ominously at three in the morning. In commercial marketing, Apple’s “Hi, I’m a Mac; Hi, I’m a PC” spots are about as tough as comparison advertising gets. Yet the digs at Microsoft are offset by sympathy for the nerdy but likable PC... View Details
Keywords: John A. Quelch;Katherine E. Jocz; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Editor's Letter

The things we choose to save, and display, say something about us. Along with the usual photos of loved ones (husband, daughter, horse), my desk in Teele Hall includes a ceramic bluebird, a train ticket from Sri Lanka, and a vintage Budweiser can discovered during a... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Noted & Quoted

computing and mobility. That has the potential to change the economics of the Internet business and to redistribute profits yet again.” — HBS professor David Yoffie talking about the potential economic effects of people increasingly relying on mobile phones instead of... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Information
  • 07 May 2019
  • News

How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal

attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding prospects for investment. Around that... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Technology for Learning's Sake

year, more than 150 first-year cases had software that was specifically designed to help students analyze cases. PC use eventually became commonplace in second-year courses and exams as well. (More than 90 percent of all exams today are... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch

Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office suite of products, Ballmer dismissed the challengers as caring more about altruism than profit. He insisted there will continue to be demand for Microsoft software that delivers feature-rich capabilities to View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 06 Dec 2012
  • News

New Thinking on Healthcare Reform

of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can provide more... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Making a Difference in the World

Alliance to Save Energy, 2009. PC Energy report, 2009 “Transportation ” Union of Concerned Scientists, Common Sense on Climate Change Solution #1 “Power plants ” Union of Concerned Scientists, Common Sense on Climate Change #2 View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Five Degrees of Doriot

also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe

longer cyclical. The Internet is a big deal, but it's not world-changing. It's another improvement, like the PC was. I have never been more optimistic than I am today about the future of technology. Advice for current MBAs It is a... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

for smaller classes, longer school days, and lots of innovation. "The answer is not just more PCs in the classroom," Doerr emphasized, as he called for the development of more charter schools and stricter standards of school... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real

dot-coms, to security windows, to a PC for children, to a gadget that makes the knot in neckties. Nine corporations, including General Motors, Veridicom, Anderson Windows, FitSense Technology, and Lynx System Developers, sponsored student... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 18 May 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

and mobile technology in particular, has the potential to be a tremendous tool for empowerment. There are now two billion people across the world with Internet access through handheld touchscreen devices. Cheaper handsets are allowing entire nations to leapfrog over... View Details
Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

cognitive problem. The PCs simply did not make sense to DEC, given their customer context and their cost structure/business model. “Disruptive Tech 101” When Clay Christensen speaks of disruptive and sustaining technologies, he uses the... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation

the great equalizer,” says Gibbons, who himself makes use of voice-recognition software on his PC and a portable, computerized organizer that uses a Braille-audio interface. The challenge, he observes, is convincing employers that with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

rented 75 PCs for participants in the Program for Management Development. The Bulletin noted that the new technology enabled "a quick consensus on the numbers and allow[ed] a focus on the real issues of a case." In 1985, a Bulletin cover... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons
  • 27 Oct 2016
  • News

Paying It Forward

have to be affordable. “From day one, we said we would use common, off-the-shelf hardware—regular PCs and security cameras—to figure out how to solve the problem,” says Kundu. “We wanted to avoid the classic mistake of creating technology... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

Yoffie added that in the near future, "we won't be talking about Internet companies as something distinct because the Net will be so integrated into everything we do." That integration, panelist Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal noted, will be hastened when... View Details
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