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Download Data Set in Excel IBM: Countries of Operation J. Connolly, History of Computing in Europe, 1967 IBM Annual Reports, various years Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries , various editions OneSource Map created... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

and web-enabled video chat (which help to mimic in-person communication). Global computer networking giant Cisco Systems, for example, uses its own TelePresence videoconferencing technology to simulate in-person meetings among its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory for the Navy's airplanes. About... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

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

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

England, and Germany by examining the 200 largest corporations in those countries. In 2001, Chandler wrote Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, which focused on the fall of... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

pieces, including the blueprint, the Constitution, to another country you don’t get a working democracy.” Eleanor Cannon’s sunny, spacious classroom at St. John’s School in Houston is well appointed, with bright white dry-erase boards covering two walls and a View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2024
News

Competing in the Age of AI

chair of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard and the coauthor of the book Competing in the Age of AI. He likens the sometimes-awkward process of embracing these technological shifts to learning to ride a bike. “Steve Jobs talked about the View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

further investigation into the development of the consumer electronics and computer industries. Here is an excerpt.I have just completed an initial sketch of the evolution of two industries—Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

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Insider Data from Thomson Reuters Ownership Data

text (*.txt) format Leave all other boxes in this step as is Click Submit Query Data Request Summary window will open Right mouse click on the highlighted file name Choose Save Target As option Save as a .txt file to your 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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

profession. Finance, insurance, information, and communications have the highest remote-work shares, the authors found. Skills play a role, too. Higher-paying jobs with computer use and education requirements are more likely to offer a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

three-piece suit kind of guy, and I wasn't. I preferred Boston to New York. And I didn't like working with computers then any more than I do now. Despite the good money, it wasn't the right fit." Instead, O'Donnell remained at HBS as... View Details

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

learn this past month? Regarding my classmates: 1. There’s a variety of STEM backgrounds I came in expecting everyone to be a software engineer, but fortunately, I was wrong. There’s a mix of different types of engineers, as well as people with backgrounds in View Details

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

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for International Harvester doing tractor sales and putting it into the first... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

Harvard’s and the Metropolitan Museum’s seven-digit-or-more gifts tend to be handled by the CEO and professional development staff. These organizations have large staffs of major gifts officers, sophisticated databases, and computer... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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