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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
Next fall’s entering MBA Class of 2010 will include up to ten students who have received $20,000 fellowships based on their academic or professional excellence in the field of life sciences. Financial support from the Life Sciences Fellowship Fund will be awarded to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
traveling “sound effects guy” on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show, “doing what I used to do behind teachers’ backs.” He uses acoustic technology to enhance the art of storytelling. “Information is in words,” says... View Details
- Web
Zad Chin | MBA
Zad Chin Computer Science/Mathematics Adams 2024 Cohort 5 The productization of a technological innovation is dependent on so many factors such as the culture and governance of a society; this unfortunately causes some promising... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
sector. “What Apple is great at is figuring out how to invent cool technology and making it wonderfully easy to use,” he told the Wall Street Journal in June 2004. By then, sales of its iPod, introduced in 2001, had nearly quadrupled over... View Details
- July 2008 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
mixi (A)
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Masaru Nomura and Kanako Miyoshi
Kasahara, the founder and CEO of mixi, the most successful Japanese on-line social network, is deciding between two strategic options: (i) B2C or (ii) C2C to leverage the power of the social network. In the B2C option, mixi would become a portal for on-line shopping... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Business Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Japan
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Masaru Nomura, and Kanako Miyoshi. "mixi (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-413, July 2008. (Revised June 2011.)
- Web
Eva Tuecke | MBA
Eva Tuecke Computer Science Mather 2025 Cohort 7 Technological innovation is increasingly transforming so many aspects of life. I'm excited to be part of the HUTIF program, where I will learn with and from a community committed to problem... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
consequences over the next 10 or 20 years. We keep that long-term impact in mind as we explore new technology investments for our network." They both note a shift taking place as more nontraditional hires, like themselves, replace... View Details
- 29 Nov 2011
- News
How I Got My Start
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Anti-Social Media
Li Photo courtesy Altimeter Group A former executive at Forrester Research and consultant at Monitor, in 2008 Charlene Li (MBA 1993) founded the Altimeter Group, which designs pragmatic strategies to help companies leverage disruptive trends. She is also the author and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
is teeming with people grabbing a bite to eat, checking e-mail, or picking up cases. Hawes Hall, the School’s first new classroom building in fifty years, and its newly renovated neighbor, Aldrich Hall, have the technology to beam a... View Details
- April 2020
- Teaching Note
Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature
By: Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
Teaching Note for HBS No. 620-024. Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Giving women more control over their biological clocks
Reproductive technology pioneer Christy Jones (MBA 2004) founded Extend Fertility in 2004 to enable women to freeze their eggs and then utilize them when the time is right. (Published November 2014) View Details
- August 2013
- Technical Note
Raising the Level of Abstraction
By: Willy Shih
This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to think at a higher level. This lowers entry barriers to using (and reusing) a... View Details
Keywords: Abstraction; Modularity; Commercialization; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; United States; Asia; Europe
Shih, Willy. "Raising the Level of Abstraction." Harvard Business School Technical Note 614-019, August 2013.
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and his co-author Koleman Strumpf, of... View Details
- February 1979 (Revised October 1982)
- Case
Fiber-Optics Industry (B): Historical Development and Competitor Profiles--1978
Keywords: Applied Optics; History; Competition; Information Technology; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Porter, Michael E. "Fiber-Optics Industry (B): Historical Development and Competitor Profiles--1978." Harvard Business School Case 379-139, February 1979. (Revised October 1982.)
- 1999
- Article
Computers with Personalities
By: Y. Moon
Moon, Y. "Computers with Personalities." Advances in Consumer Research 26 (1999).
- 2011
- Teaching Note
UFIDA (E) (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Lijuan Liu
In 2004, China's largest management software provider UFIDA began internationalization. In the subsequent 6 years, UFIDA entered Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and other overseas Asian markets. Nonetheless, UFIDA's overseas business footprint was still... View Details
Keywords: Computer Software; Corporate Strategy; Emerging Markets; Globalization; China; Applications and Software; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, and Lijuan Liu. "UFIDA (E) (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
- 2011
- Teaching Note
UFIDA (B) (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Bin Yang and E. Chen
This case highlights the leadership, cultural and organizational structure dimensions of UFIDA. The case begins with Founder/Chairman Wang Wenjing's rags-to-riches story. Then UFIDA's senior and middle management of different backgrounds talk about their leader,... View Details
Keywords: Computer Software; Corporate Vision; Emerging Markets; Leadership; Organizational Structure; China; Applications and Software; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Bin Yang, and E. Chen. "UFIDA (B) (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
- February 2008 (Revised June 2008)
- Teaching Note
Quanta Computer and the One Laptop Per Child Initiative (TN)
By: Willy Shih
Teaching Note for [608102]. View Details