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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
essential for HBS’s technological evolution. The Solution The Cloud Program will establish clear cloud principles, architectural standards, and governance processes as well as invest in the skills of our staff to support a way of working... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
research on the integration of computers into the manufacturing process led to the development of a "minimalist" architecture for manufacturing. His framework emphasizes the elimination of process disruptions and the mini- mization of... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary software that connected to email... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
concerned about sovereignty. The solution was to establish a buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw a boundary line in the sand. The third dimension challenges the basic View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
maintaining and adapting this system in future. An important component of technical debt relates to decisions about system architecture. As systems grow and evolve, their architectures can degrade, increasing maintenance costs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Reach Out to Haiti
Haiti, working in conjunction with the nonprofit organization Architecture for Humanity. Haiti native Alika Phipps (HBS ’11) will lead a task force for coordinating student efforts in the coming year. View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
operations. Carliss Baldwin: A bookshelf and books provide a low-tech example. A bookshelf is designed to be between 12 and 24 inches in height and have a flat bottom and sides. That is a simple architecture with three flat interfaces.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward
opportunities and rapid decline. Lerner, author of The Architecture of Innovation (HBS Press, 2012), also found that corporate venture funds invested in start-up companies provide an alternative to in-house R&D departments—and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
building was of paramount importance to the planners. All architectural details, the open and private meeting spaces, and even the tools to facilitate learning (such as multimedia technology and movable furniture) were designed to create... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
emerge from the Argentina case that will in some way ameliorate the risk. Given the lack of conversation about changes to the international financial architecture to manage and resolve debt crises more effectively, let me offer a radical... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
project’s end, McKim, Mead & White commissioned a noted architectural photographer Paul J. Weber to take photographs of the new campus. Donham presented George F. Baker with an album of the artistic views, and the October 1927 issue of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building
as a pivotal point of discussion towards reducing global carbon emissions. The push to decarbonize the building sector stems from statistics compiled by sources such as Architecture 2030, which indicate that activities related to... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Pan-American Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
representing business — including agriculture, logging, mining, petroleum, communications, banking, and manufacturing — in their respective countries. Researchers will find views of field laborers splitting cacao pods, scenes of busy Jamaican “sugar” wharves, and early... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
satisfaction in my career? How can I avoid compromising my integrity? Using lessons from some of the world’s greatest businesses, Christensen and his coauthors provide insight into these challenging questions. The Architecture of... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
regulatory architecture has barely begun. Rather than merely tightening credit, the challenge is to recalibrate the country's access to credit so that more responsibility for making good loans lies with lenders, and so that the burden is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
present tangible ways in which it can do so (and why).” What I’m Reading “A brilliant materials scientist takes us through the remarkable histories and properties of the world around us, from self-healing concrete to the molecular View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Hawes Hall Dedicated
Sharing the podium with the Haweses were Dean Clark; Student Association copresidents Annemarie Jensen and Sal Khan (both HBS '03); Cahal Stephens, president and CEO of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering; and Peter Campot,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
opted for the walking tour began by visiting an Arab fort and then the Sultan’s Palace — the first building to have electricity in Zanzibar — where we saw exhibits of copper and ivory artifacts, hippo tusks, wooden masks, and weavings. As we walked, we witnessed the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
borders. “When the global market comes to your doorstep,” he observes, “if you don’t have the same advantages—the synergies and scale that global networks bring—you’re not going to be safe at home.” The organizational architecture... View Details