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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much? In the course of making a decision, managers often err in one of two directions: either overanalyzing a situation or forgoing all the relevant information and simply... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone, for example, replaced by a... View Details
- October 2000 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
NTT DoCoMo (A): The Future of the Wireless Internet?
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Matthew Sandoval
NTT DoCoMo was established in 1992 and became publicly held in 1998. This case tracks how DoCoMo became the number one mobile phone company in Japan and how its i.mode service revolutionized the cellular phone market. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Japan
Bradley, Stephen P., and Matthew Sandoval. "NTT DoCoMo (A): The Future of the Wireless Internet?" Harvard Business School Case 701-013, October 2000. (Revised September 2002.)
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
innovative technologies, for implementing higher standards, for providing better feedback and support to teachers. “HBS gave me the skills by helping me to think as a systems thinker. By that I mean to consider the marketing angles, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
When most MBA students attend HBS, there is a general feeling that the contract they sign is to spend 18 months getting world-class exposure to cases and principles of business and management and then leave with a license to practice... View Details
- 1985
- Book
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions
By: A. D. Chandler Jr. and R. S. Tedlow
Chandler, A. D., Jr., and R. S. Tedlow. The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1985.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
way it goes. In the case, Nohria recalls his experience teaching the first-year required leadership course: "When there were women protagonists in a case, students had questions about how they managed work-family balance. Men had... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to understanding the changing role... View Details
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Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
performance. Course Faculty The course will be co-taught by Susanna Gallani and Robert Huckman. Susanna Gallani is the Tai Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Her research focuses on performance management View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
A World of Support
onto the world,” says Hannecart, managing partner and CEO of MATEXI in Belgium. For more information on becoming a member of the Global Leaders Circle, contact Skip Nordhoff at snordhoff@hbs.edu or... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out that the executive director of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
they must do to reshape their businesses for the 21st century. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business, by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, presents a revolutionary model for managing and measuring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
What Are They Thinking?
The Leadership Initiative, whose mission is to ensure that the School remains at the forefront of leadership R&D, has two projects under way that focus on young people. Using interviews, self-assessment exercises, and periodic interventions, one study is documenting... View Details
- June 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Microsoft in 2004
By: Michael G. Rukstad, David B. Yoffie, Brian DeLacey and Deborah Freier
Surveys Microsoft's expansion into new businesses, such as mobile and embedded devices, home and entertainment, and business solutions, as it faces challenges due to size and maturity and outside threats from Linux and Google. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Washington (state, US)
Rukstad, Michael G., David B. Yoffie, Brian DeLacey, and Deborah Freier. "Microsoft in 2004." Harvard Business School Case 704-508, June 2004. (Revised November 2004.)
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman sparked the massacre. This event... View Details
- February 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Cimetrics Technology (A-1)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jose Royo
Jim Lee, president of Cimetrics (a young, fast growing, software start-up) is reevaluating his small company's geographically dispersed product development model. To take advantage of talented low-cost labor in Russia, the company has relied on two software engineering... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Applications and Software; Business or Company Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Labor and Management Relations; Product Development; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology Industry; Russia; Canada; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Jose Royo. "Cimetrics Technology (A-1)." Harvard Business School Case 399-108, February 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
profits. Investment Banking: Addressing the Management Issues by Steven I. Davis (MBA '58) (Palgrave Macmillan) In his eighth book, international banking consultant Davis offers a timely analysis of the global issues facing the View Details