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Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry

adoption in production from proof of concept to industrial scale and how governments and civil society can best support the development of a favorable ecosystem for adopting and diffusing View Details

January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Case

STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality

By: Rajiv Lal, Matt Denison, Robert Higgins and Scott Johnson

The CEO of a growing virtual reality company that trains athletes must decide whether or not to stay in sports or expand into other areas. View Details

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

December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Supplement

The Metropolitan Opera (B)

By: Anita Elberse and Crissy Perez

In April 2007, the New York City Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb looks back on the first season of a daring experiment to broadcast performances live in high-definition to movie theaters across North America. While the "Live in HD" program has received... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Arts; Fine Arts Industry

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

service technologies from a provider, customer, and investor perspective. Customers are concerned with integration and driving down costs, said Steven Lewis, Microsoft's general manager of .net market development. "There is a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

March 2001 (Revised November 2005)
Case

Cisco Systems Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT

By: Richard L. Nolan, Kelley Porter and Christina Akers

In a seven-year process, Cisco built its strategic I-Net. Beginning in 1994, Cisco completely replaced its back-office legacy systems. At that time, the company standardized Internet protocols. In addition, the company shifted strategic focus from IT back-office... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Management Practices and Processes; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry

01 Sep 2013
News

The New Tech Meccas

government and no tradition of tech innovation that we ever hear about," says Schroeder. "But to be surrounded by such a large quantity of young people—many of them women—who were unbelievably head-down, thinking about problems they wanted to solve with View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2013
News

Delivering the Power to Dream Big

technology will not only increase solar adoption in the United States, but help people in the developing world as well. In industrialized countries, "you can imagine the impact on portable electronics—it can... View Details

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

scheme.—F. Warren McFarlan He offered the case of the Hong Kong-based global trading company Li & Fung as one example of a company that has virtually dissolved its boundaries and embraced technology as a tool for charging forth into... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

rather than a cause, of Infosys' decision to adopt world corporate governance standards. The proximate cause of the aspiration to good corporate governance at Infosys, in turn, is its need to attract talent with truly worldwide options,... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

18 Apr 2022
News

Book Smart

technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and... View Details

16 Feb 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Consumer Products

01 Jun 2010
News

Health IT at the Bedside

Jain (MBA '07) Courtesy Sachin Jain As a physician, I’m a great believer in health IT. So I’m always confused by how slowly and unevenly it has been adopted in medicine, a field where new technologies and... View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

along with the plan. It worked with IBM to solidify blockchain’s functionality and security and found a willing, technologically progressive client in the Swiss private equity firm Unigestion. The final piece was bringing in similarly... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

April 14, 2015
Article

What Harvard Business School Has Learned About Online Collaboration from HBX

By: Janice H. Hammond, V.G. Narayanan and Bharat Anand

Keywords: Business Education; Technology Adoption

2017
Working Paper

Salience through Information Technology: The Effect of Balance Availability on the Smoothing of SNAP Benefits

By: Andrew Hillis

Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) run out of most benefits before halfway through a benefit deposit cycle. I study the introduction of a mobile software application, Fresh EBT, that enables beneficiaries to check their available balance... View Details

Keywords: Mobile Technology; Welfare or Wellbeing; Technology Adoption; Behavior