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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience
(photo via Twitter) (photo via Twitter) Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) and his fellow HBS cofounders didn’t have any tech experience when they launched the online freelance marketplace HourlyNerd. Three years later the company, now known as Catalant, has a global View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using data analytics and sharing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Les Vadasz (107th AMP)
first time, our technology started to reach mere mortals," he says with a laugh. Today, with 50,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $20.8 billion in 1996, Intel - in addition to providing the architecture and brains of most of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Navigator Takes Off
Staying in touch with the School’s network of 65,000 graduates just got a lot easier. Directory search, the most popular feature on the Alumni Web site, now uses the same cutting-edge technology that powers... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
In Dot Vertigo: Doing Business in a Permeable World, HBS professor Richard Nolan shows how the next shift in Internet technology - the I-Net - is helping both bricks-and-mortar and first-generation Web companies stave off the competition... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
networks and emergent behavior, Badaracco proposes a roadmap for thinking about ethical ways to delegate decisions to machines. “It’s a potentially catastrophic mistake, with technology like this, to have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
Illustration by Chris Gash When Rob Saliterman (MBA 2011) started selling online political ads at Google, they were almost all destined for people already seeking political content, placed either on specific networks or in response to... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Clearly, a larger installed base implies that there will be stronger direct and indirect network effects, and this will enhance the value of the operating system to current and potential users. In addition, a larger installed base also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- September 2014
- Case
Google Inc. in 2014 (Abridged)
By: Benjamin Edelman and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to Yahoo, Microsoft, and others. Asks what Google should do next. View Details
Keywords: Search Engines; Google; Online Advertising; Internet and the Web; Network Effects; Business Model; Competition; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Thomas R. Eisenmann. "Google Inc. in 2014 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 915-005, September 2014.
- June 2003
- Case
Rise and Fall (?) of Palm Computing in Handheld Operating Systems,The
Describes the evolution of the handheld operating system market. Describes the rise to dominance of Palm's operating system and the significant challenge to that dominance posed by Microsoft's Windows CE. View Details
Keywords: Competition; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Network Effects; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Corts, Kenneth S., and Deborah Freier. "Rise and Fall (?) of Palm Computing in Handheld Operating Systems,The." Harvard Business School Case 703-519, June 2003.
- 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 techniques are often embraced... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Teledesic (Abridged)
Describes plans for a failed project that proposed the use of 288 satellites to deliver high-speed data communications services anywhere in the world. View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Network Effects; Failure; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Teledesic (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 804-096, November 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
agreed to manufacture the laptop. On the technological front, OLPC tackled puzzles such as creating a product both useful and fun for children of primary school age. (See CloseUp below). But despite its visionary goals and widespread... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
communications in corporations? Where did the idea come from? Toby Stuart: For the first time in history, it is possible to actually analyze the "soft wiring" or largely complete social networks inside organizations. This is feasible... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 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
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
leaders of technology ventures by combining their passion for innovation and engineering with an in-depth understanding of management and leadership. “These students want to build things and lead companies that make the world a better... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
human physiology (typing is still difficult on a small keyboard), technology (battery life for a fully converged device might be in minutes, not hours), and human preference (would the iPod be as popular if it looked like a cell phone?).... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne