Computer Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

projects and good returns. Project finance — Esty’s specialty and the focus of his course — involves highly leveraged deals and risk-taking, something that has interested Esty since he wrote his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings-and-loan View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

digital world," elaborates Upton, a Technology and Operations Management professor with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. The current initiative began with the refitting of the School with an open architecture using Internet-based... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

bunch. I believe the School will stay relevant through its emphasis on interactive learning, and by maintaining its willingness to look ahead and dive into areas for which there are no agreed-upon answers. I am concerned about the tendency to overemphasize the use of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1998
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Tech Trekker

have similarly discovered over the past 25 years. By supporting Lang's creativity and unconventional thinking, high-tech startups and established computer firms alike have found their assets turning to gold under her fingers. "I've always... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

countries. From 2000 to 2004, India’s offshoring industries grew from $4 billion to $12.8 billion, accounting for 6 percent of the increase in its GDP during this period. As founder and chairman of Satyam View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

revenue.) The exchange and nearby buildings were checked for safety and cleaned up, power was reestablished, and computer systems tested and retested over the weekend. On Monday, September 17, Lhota stood by as the bell rang to open the... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

01 Mar 2013
News

Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

obliterates all competitors, fall so precipitously? Other minicomputer firms were suddenly failing too. How could good managers seemingly turn bad so fast? That was the puzzle. Colleagues suggested exploring the disk-drive industry... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since March 1995, says that dealing... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

customer experience and low cost? In this book, strategy and operations experts Siggelkow and Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth examples from companies operating in View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Getting Personal

marketing and psychology. Moon is a recipient of the HBS Student Association Award for teaching excellence and has twice received a Hellman Faculty Fellowship, presented annually to a junior faculty member for outstanding research. Are there View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
News

New Releases

computer industries, in which interfirm and international rivalries are intense. The other three consortia - Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Gas Research Institute (GRI), and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) - draw their... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?

objective was met. Our space research gave rise to Silicon Valley, and U.S. industrial strength was enhanced by technology innovation derived from products created for our satellite program. By 1980, however, Europe, helped by the... View Details

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01 Oct 1996
News

No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Feb 2002
News

If You're #1, Watch Out

required to achieve better and better results. When the product the customers use isn't good enough, its architecture is proprietary and its manufacturers make money. When it's more than good enough, its architecture becomes modular, built around View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2005
News

Better Care at Lower Cost

The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

performance of workers. To promote change across the manufacturing sector, Esquel sponsors an annual forum, the Integral Conversation, which brings together industry and government stakeholders to inspire alternative thinking. “It’s a... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business

Amidst the dizzying swirl of today's e-commerce transactions, it is sometimes difficult to remember what the business world was like before the advent of computer technology. For campus visitors who want to take a minute to reflect on a... View Details