Computer Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

near record high. A 2010 strategy committed the company to a transition to cloud computing. The main driver behind this transition was the development of SAP HANA, an in-memory computing technology that combined database, data processing,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

coverage, care delivery, and spending. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/712466-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-056 ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet Days after Jerry Shen introduced a new tablet computer at the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Jun 2006
News

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 Oct 1996
News

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

11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

outside opportunities in the labor market. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52495 March 2017 Review of Industrial Organization Challenges for Empirical Research on RPM By: MacKay, Alexander J., and David A.... View Details

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

evidence related to globalization, which is surprisingly scanty on many important issues. While many traditional forms of arbitrage may look dated, new ones with more contemporary accents have emerged.— Pankaj Ghemawat Consider, for instance, the basic belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2020
Book

Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

By: Debora L. Spar

Covering a time frame that ranges from 8000 BC to the present, and drawing upon both Marxist and feminist theories, the book argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives—whom to marry, how to have children, how to have sex, how to think about... View Details

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General Management: Processes and Action

General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details

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

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

participate with you on your critical problems. Of course, the Internet and the massive reduction in communication and computation costs have made accessing external innovators a much easier task than what was possible 10 or 15 years ago.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

and instead focus on hedging their long-term spending needs. Q: With the lowering of the bar to entry in hedge funds, many more people and institutions are investing in these funds. Given your research, do you think this is a good thing? A: The investment management... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209029 The Restructuring of Daiei Harvard Business School Case 209-060 In 2004, the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ) was given the task of restructuring... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2020
Teaching Note

Digitalization at Siemens

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-428. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Technology; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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04 Jun 2025
News

Slice of Life

have that flour. It's the most prolific and common flour. It's a high quality flour. But it's funny that I thought at the time this is my secret ingredient. Everybody has it. I ordered a wood-fired oven from a supplier. I knew nothing about the View Details

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

5,000 board members from around the world to find out. We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards. Although directors in certain industries are more cognizant of the threat of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

often an essential ingredient of recovery. Detroit has a precedent in Pittsburgh and a variety of other cities and jurisdictions that have seen their trajectory fundamentally shift in the wake of precipitous economic and fiscal decline. Long before the American... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal of creative control, and it... View Details