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  • February 1995 (Revised October 1995)
  • Case

Doing Business in a Distributed World: Clients, Servers, and the Stuff in Between

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Geoffrey Bock
Examines business computing as it is evolving in the 1990s. Compares the highly centralized and tightly controlled systems of the past with today's flexible, networked, client/server technology. Serves as an introduction to client/server terminology and technology. View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Transformation; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Adoption; Information Technology Industry
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HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

if they want to earn trust and remain competitive. How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change by Rachel Layne 26 MAR 2024 | Research & Ideas Could artificial intelligence systems eventually perform surgeries or fly planes? First, AI... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

live.” CAMH, he is confident, will be leading the movement. Unspinning the COVID web These three stories provide yet another example of how COVID-19 has mushroomed into multiple interrelated crises and revealed underlying systemic... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
    • 2010
    • Book

    Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

    By: Robert L. Simons
    To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
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    • 20 Dec 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

    ways that are often invisible. A provocative new book by economists Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner describes what's wrong, but shines a light on ways to fix the system, too. Their book, Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • November 2008 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    Omron: Sensing Society

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ethan S Bernstein
    "Leading profitable growth is only part of the goal. We cannot live without breathing, but we do not live in order to take a breath,” said Omron's President and CEO, Hisao Sakuta, in 2008. Omron, a $7B global supplier of sensors, control system components, advanced... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Competitive Advantage; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Globalized Firms and Management; Innovation and Invention; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Electronics Industry
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    • 26 Sep 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon

    • September 1992 (Revised November 1996)
    • Case

    Royal Automobile Club Rescue Services Division: Transformation Through Technology

    By: W. Earl Sasser and Roger H. Hallowell
    The Royal Automobile Club uses a new computer and telephone system to improve its service standards and profitability. After the initial impact of changes from technology, the organization faces a need to choose between future technological development or... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Service Industry; Auto Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries

    By: Daniel P. Gross and Maria P. Roche
    Complex systems technologies—including “deep tech”—are prone to numerous frictions that stymie commercial development. Yet technologies with these features underpin some of the most valuable industries of the past century. We examine how large, mission-oriented... View Details
    Keywords: Research and Development; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 30 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

    When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

    By: Julio Rotemberg
    This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S. from August to December 2006 as well as their roots in subprime lending. After briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending,... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Central Banking; Financial Markets; Mortgages; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; United States
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    • 30 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

    If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 06 Nov 2017
    • Research Event

    Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

    Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Panelist Efosa Ojomo clearly believed that the path to urban growth and improvement has long been spearheaded by innovations in the private sector, rather than by municipal governments.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 24 Jun 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

    Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
    • Web

    Capstone | MBA

    medicine, microbiomes, opioid use disorder, organoid systems for drug development, oncology, psychedelics, women’s health, and many more. Recent Capstone Projects iPSC-Derived NK Cells – Changing Cancer’s Fate Richard Nixon declared a war... View Details
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major U.S. retailers to Harmonized System... View Details
    • 22 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Hila... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Jul 2021
    • Video

    Peter Wharton-Hood

    Peter Wharton-Hood, a former senior executive at Standard Bank and Deutsche Bank in South Africa, discusses how a failed takeover attempt prompted Standard Bank in South Africa to invest in a range of new banking technologies, including an internet banking system which... View Details
    • 24 May 2021
    • Blog Post

    Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

    Rebekah Emanuel (MBA 2015), Director of Social Entrepreneurship for the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-Lab) and host of the third season of the BEI’s Climate Rising podcast, reflects on the role of entrepreneurship in confronting climate... View Details