Publications

March 2003 (Revised August 2005)
Case

Making SMaL Big: SMaL Camera Technologies

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Scott Duncan Anthony

SMaL Camera Technologies CEO Maurizio Arienzo was trying to decide what market opportunities SMaL should target. The company had developed a revolutionary imaging technology that powered small digital still and video cameras. Its first-generation product--a kit to... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Decision Making; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Electronics Industry; Computer Industry; Massachusetts

February 1994
Case

Alpha-Beta Technology, Inc.: Pioneering Carbohydrate Technology

Alpha-Beta was founded in 1988 by two scientist-entrepreneurs with ten patents on carbohydrate technology. In 1991, the company faces critical questions about how to focus its product definition from among several promising, but risky, choices. How should they analyze... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Design; Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry

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March 1992
Teaching Note

Developing Strategic Technological Competencies, Module Two: Developing Technological Capabilities, Teaching Note

By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton

Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Competency and Skills

06 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

Web

Benefits | Information Technology

the HBS Live Online Classroom production team allows instructors to be completely free of technology responsibilities, so they can focus on discussions and make deep, one-to-one connections. Dynamic case... View Details

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Staff | Information Technology

Staff Harvard Business School (HBS) IT delivers and supports the strategic technology solutions you need to help HBS shape the future of business. Whether we're behind the scenes ensuring the security View Details

December 1982
Supplement

New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company, Assignment

By: Richard E. Walton

Keywords: Job Design and Levels; Telecommunications Industry

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February 2005 (Revised November 2006)
Case

InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech

InfoVision illustrates university technology transfer through the choices of a graduating doctoral student. Also explores the challenges of working across the scientific, business, and legal disciplines in the Georgia Tech transfer program. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Transformation; Higher Education; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Research and Development; Education Industry; Georgia (state, US)

March 1987 (Revised May 1988)
Case

Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (A): Changing Markets and Technology

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine

Keywords: Product Marketing; Steel Industry

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1997
Working Paper

Managerial Commitments and Technological Change in the US Tire Industry

By: Donald N. Sull, Richard S. Tedlow and Richard S. Rosenbloom

2014
Article

Why Was Boston Strong?: Law Enforcement Lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombing

By: Dutch Leonard, Christine M. Cole and Arnold M. Howitt

On April 15, 2013, at 2:49 pm, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Three people died, and more than 260 others needed hospital care, many having lost limbs or suffered horrific wounds. Those explosions began about... View Details

Keywords: Boston Marathon Bombing; Disaster Response; Emergency Management; Crisis Management; Law Enforcement

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September 1992
Teaching Note

Aerospace Technology Manufacturing, Inc.: Industry, Company, and I/S Transitions TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Transition; Aerospace Industry; Manufacturing Industry

18 Dec 2019
Podcast

Crisis reporting from the front lines of technology and employment

Art Bilger is sounding the alarm over systemic trends in the world of work—the mismatch of labor force skills and job requirements; automation; underemployment and structural unemployment. The Wall Street veteran, whose CV includes successes in media and high-tech,... View Details

February 2000 (Revised April 2003)
Case

InSite Marketing Technology (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Genevieve J.S. Feraud

Provides students an example of partnerships/acquisitions that allow delivery of packaged solutions to customers in the electronic commerce space. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Business Strategy; Web Services Industry

2014
Working Paper

Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance

By: Lamar Pierce, Daniel Snow and Andrew McAfee

This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data from 392 restaurant locations from five firms that adopt a theft monitoring information technology... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Employees

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June 2019
Case

Fangda Partners: A Step Ahead

By: Ashish Nanda and Lisa Rohrer

Elite Chinese law firm Fangda Partners has steered Alibaba and other Chinese and international clients through the complex legal, corporate, and regulatory challenges associated with executing international transactions. “Fangda has traveled a long distance in a short... View Details

Keywords: Law Firm; Law Firms; Growth; Legal Industry; Regulation; Professional Services; Law; Leadership; Growth and Development; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Legal Services Industry; China

12 Dec 2023
News

The Race between Education and Technology in the Global South

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

I am a Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Recent... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

2016
Working Paper

The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation

By: Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy

Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Financing and Loans; Financial Crisis