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- Class Lecture
The New Strategic Weapon: Information Technology
McFarlan, F. Warren. "The New Strategic Weapon: Information Technology." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2003. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 5321C.)
- April 1983
- Background Note
Domestic Airline Industry and Information Technology
Vitale, Michael R. "Domestic Airline Industry and Information Technology." Harvard Business School Background Note 183-204, April 1983.
- November 2002 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica
By: Michael E. Porter and Niels W. Ketelhohn
Describes the actions of Costa Rica President Figueres and his cabinet in attracting an Intel assembly and testing plant to their country. The effort was part of a government strategy that sought to develop further the Costa Rican electronics and information technology... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Costa Rica
Porter, Michael E., and Niels W. Ketelhohn. "Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica." Harvard Business School Case 703-422, November 2002. (Revised September 2013.)
- Research Summary
The Role of Information Technology in the Provision of Services
By: James I. Cash
James I. Cash, Jr. is exploring the role of information technology in service management. Specifically, he is studying the implications of the ubiquity of information technology at three levels in service-providing organizations. (In the United States today, service... View Details
- June 2019
- Article
Financial Development and Technology Diffusion
By: Diego Comin and Ramana Nanda
We examine the extent to which financial market development impacts the diffusion of 16 major technologies, looking across 17 countries, from 1870 to 2000. We find that greater depth in financial markets leads to faster technology diffusion for more capital-intensive... View Details
Comin, Diego, and Ramana Nanda. "Financial Development and Technology Diffusion." IMF Economic Review 67, no. 2 (June 2019): 395–419.
- June 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
Information Technology and Clinical Operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, F. Warren McFarlan and Julia Rose Adler-Milstein
Describes the history of clinical computing at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and the development, since the 1996 merger to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of an information system designed to support the delivery of patient care. The hospitals' CIO, John... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Design; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Boston
Bohmer, Richard M.J., F. Warren McFarlan, and Julia Rose Adler-Milstein. "Information Technology and Clinical Operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center." Harvard Business School Case 607-150, June 2007. (Revised October 2007.)
- February 2018
- Case
Health Savings Accounts: Enabling Consumer Participation
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
Health savings accounts (HSAs), a creation of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, had become an integral part of the drive toward consumer-driven health care. Coupled with high-deductible health plans, HSAs allowed consumers to directly control a significant part of... View Details
- September 2019
- Article
Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008
By: Ryan Raffaelli
In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had... View Details
Keywords: Technology Reemergence; Technology Cycles; Cognition And Market Redefinition; Legacy Technology Trajectories; Information Technology; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Identity; Change; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
Raffaelli, Ryan. "Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008." Administrative Science Quarterly 64, no. 3 (September 2019): 576–618.
- June 2000
- Article
Information Technology Security: A Challenge for Directors
By: Robert B. Stobaugh, Rosina B. Dixon, Thomas R. Horton and Roger W. Raber
Stobaugh, Robert B., Rosina B. Dixon, Thomas R. Horton, and Roger W. Raber. "Information Technology Security: A Challenge for Directors." Director's Monthly (June 2000): 11–13. (For a report based on this article, see "Try a Hacker Test," front page, Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2000.)
- August 1995
- Teaching Note
Xerox: Outsourcing Global Information Technology Resources TN
By: Richard L. Nolan
Teaching Note for (9-195-158). View Details
- 2013
- Dictionary Entry
Technology and Innovation Management
By: Elizabeth J. Altman, Frank Nagle and Michael L. Tushman
The goal of this annotated bibliography on technology and innovation is to organize and present the most important literature relevant to a scholar seeking to understand and advance the field. It includes articles that are highly-cited and foundational pieces, as well... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Technological Change; Innovation Streams; Organizational Evolution; Executive Leadership; Organizational Architecture; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Organizational Design
Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael L. Tushman. "Technology and Innovation Management." In Oxford Bibliographies: Management, edited by Ricky W. Griffin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Electronic.
- December 1994
- Teaching Note
Competitive Information Policy at United Technologies TN
By: Lynn S. Paine
- 2015
- Working Paper
Multinational Activity and Information and Communication Technology
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Multinational Activity and Information and Communication Technology." Working Paper, May 2015. (Background note prepared for the 2016 World Development Report: Internet for Development.)
- October 2005
- Article
Information Technology and the Board of Directors
By: Richard Nolan and F. Warren McFarlan
Nolan, Richard, and F. Warren McFarlan. "Information Technology and the Board of Directors." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 10 (October 2005).
- September 1997
- Case
Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)
By: W. Earl Sasser, Josep Valor and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Information Technology Services Director Mohamed Muhsin planned to restructure the World Bank's information technology in response to President Jim Wolfensohn's call to build a knowledge bank. Several reorganization efforts taken by the bank in the 1980s led to a... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Information; Knowledge Management; Mission and Purpose; Technology; Public Administration Industry
Sasser, W. Earl, Josep Valor, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-053, September 1997.
- January 1999
- Case
State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter
With Multi-currency HORIZON, a real-time multi-currency accounting system that replaced the traditional batch-oriented single-currency accounting system, successfully launched, State Street Corp. (State Street) began to focus on growing the scope of its business... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Trends; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., and Kelley Porter. "State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)." Harvard Business School Case 799-034, January 1999.
- February 1996 (Revised May 2002)
- Teaching Note
Xerox: Outsourcing Global Information Technology Resources TN
Teaching Note for (9-195-158). View Details
- 2015
- Chapter
Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity
By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that... View Details
Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein. "Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity." In The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, edited by Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones, 169–196. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- January 1985 (Revised June 1985)
- Background Note
Domestic Airline Industry and Information Technology (Condensed)
Vitale, Michael R. "Domestic Airline Industry and Information Technology (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-091, January 1985. (Revised June 1985.)