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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity
research investigates how organizational and social network processes shape gender and race differences amongst employees in the workplace. I do this by examining the roles of culture, cognition, and emotion in organizations using field experimental and View Details
D. Quinn Mills
Daniel Quinn Mills provides thought leadership in several fields including leadership, strategy, venture capital, finance, economics and geopolitics. He has been a director of publicly-listed firms and is currently a director of several closely-held private... View Details
- August 2013 (Revised December 2014)
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Taking Dell Private
By: David J. Collis, David B. Yoffie and Matthew Shaffer
In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Going Private; The PC Market; Market For Corporate Control; Corporate Strategy; Leveraged Buyouts; Change Management; Private Equity; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States
Collis, David J., David B. Yoffie, and Matthew Shaffer. "Taking Dell Private." Harvard Business School Case 714-421, August 2013. (Revised December 2014.)
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Dorothy A. Leonard
Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
out to test, along with HBS research assistant Tom Sühr and Harvard computer science doctoral student Sophie Hilgard, in research published last year in the Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and... View Details
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
populated. We hopped in a small elevator and quickly arrived on the 7th floor. The open office floor plan had six rows of computers with the company’s CEO and the newest hire sitting practically shoulder to shoulder. We soon realized we... View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
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Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
calendar to tackle your most challenging work, particularly when your energy is high, and focus on giving it your undivided attention by turning off distracting notification pings on your phone, email, and Slack channels. In a recent study, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2000
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Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
examples the fact that few people pay to have their name not listed in the phone book and the popularity of "free" computers—where consumers get a computer in exchange for giving out personal information, agreeing to view ads,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- January 2006 (Revised October 2006)
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Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A)
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Hewlett-Packard decided that, to grow more rapidly, it needed to design a revolutionary disk drive product that would create an entirely new market or application for magnetic recording technology. The company followed most of the "rules" good managers follow in such... View Details
Keywords: Management; Information Infrastructure; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Computer Industry; United States
Christensen, Clayton M. "Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-088, January 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
pervasive impact, it remains only a small part of the computing ecosystem. Keystones can increase ecosystem productivity by simplifying the complex task of connecting network participants to one another or by making the creation of new... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
pixelfit Companies that contribute to open source software and use it in their own IT systems and applications can gain a competitive advantage—even though they may be helping their competitors in the short run. Open source software is software whose code can be... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Influence: Medium 30 1930 s 19 Advances in aviation Nylon Fiberglass Instant photography Air-conditioning begins to realize commercial potential Influence: High 40 1940 s 19 Planes and ships built in less than a day for the war effort Atomic bomb ENIAC View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
manage newly acquired customers, for whom there is no historical data—something known in computer science as “the cold-start problem.” “People who bought more products at the first transaction, especially those who did so in stores, were... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech
Gaurav Singh (MBA 2022) grew up in Varanasi, India. He completed his Bachelor’s of Technology in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from NIT Trichy, India before moving to the US to pursue his M.S. in Electrical and Computer... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
"Can we shut off power to the computer systems? Or cut the wires that go to the Internet?" "We could, Graham, but I doubt that would be smart." "Smart doesn't matter. What matters is what we can say in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense
design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a... View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship
Nuclear, which was bought by DuPont in 1972. The success of that, he said in an interview with the Computer History Museum, “made me think that the venture business was easy.” By all accounts, Crisp made it look easy. He worked closely... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young