Computing - Publications - Faculty & Research

Explores how the human resource (HR) function at Apple Computer can best support the company's strategy. Provides an overview of the company's history, industry, competitive position, strategy, and organization. Written at a time when the company faces a very... View Details

Keywords: Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Computer Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Web

Online Requests - Research Computing Services

Help Online Requests 3ms RCS Research Computing Environment Help Request Form Please use this form for questions, to request assistance, or to report a problem with the HBS Research Computing Environment.... View Details

Web

Software Tools - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Software Tools 4ms A variety of applications and libraries are supported on the cluster by default . Additional software, including older versions of software, can selectively be "turned on" in a user's environment via... View Details

July 2022
Supplement

Transformational Medical Advances: Computed Tomography

By: Amar Bhide

Citation

Purchase

July 1986 (Revised August 1986)
Case

Compass Computer Services: Satellite Communications

Citation

Find at Harvard

01 Jul 2009
News

Upgrading the Computer History Museum

1996
Article

Technical Progress and Co-Invention in Computing and in the Use of Computers

By: Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein

Citation

Find at Harvard

March 2007 (Revised April 2007)
Case

The University of Utah and the Computer Graphics Revolution

By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington

Computer science departments were new to universities in the 1960s, and the one created at the University of Utah by David Evans and Ivan Sutherland had a research mission to invent the field of computer graphics. Details the research process that led to many of the... View Details

Keywords: Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Utah

Citation

Educators

Purchase

2017
Working Paper

Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry 100 years later. I first model the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Business History; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry

Citation

Read Now

April 1985
Background Note

Writing Computer Programs in BASIC

Citation

Find at Harvard

April 1982 (Revised July 1986)
Case

Brookfield Corp.'s Personal Computers (A)

By: Walter J. Salmon

Keywords: Information Technology; Information Infrastructure

Citation

Find at Harvard

Web

Newsletter - Research Computing Services

Newsletter Newsletter School Select one Harvard Business School Harvard College Division of Continuing Education Harvard School of Dental Medicine Harvard Divinity School Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences Graduate School of Design Graduate School of Education Graduate... View Details

2004
Book

Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not: Economic And Strategic Management in Computing Markets

Web

SAS/CONNECT - Research Computing Services

PC SAS version 9.3 or 9.4 to connect to SAS 9.2 on the server): Compute Services (CS) Remote Library Services (RLS) Give user access to all of the computing resources on the remote host. Give user access to... View Details