Computers - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

computational power for model estimation. We overcome computational burden by utilizing an improved simulator for likelihood evaluation and the general-purpose computing on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

than doubling the unit cost of the aircraft. The amount of electronics equipment in a modern fighter aircraft is astounding. An Air Force general captured the essential change: "In the past, the Air Force used to buy airplanes and add electronics. Today the Air... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

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

16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

case studies and examples with key concepts from economics, sociology, computer science, consumer psychology, and management studies and presents them all in a clear, accessible, and entertaining style. Enterprise 2.0 is a must-have... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

colleague, Senior Lecturer Willy Shih, led a discussion titled "Emerging Models of Corporate Research," which centered on case studies on Corning, IBM, and InnoCentive. A veteran of 27 years in industry, many of them in View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

04 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

benefit considerably by outsourcing, for example, analytical functions to qualified suppliers if those skills are lacking in-house. But some aspects of marketing are less amenable to outsourcing—those that directly drive marketing strategy. While View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

efficient. Entering patient data into a computer can cost doctors valuable patient time.Photo: iStockPhoto However, several studies indicated that when physicians spent extra time entering data themselves, it cut down time spent with... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Hill, is someone who possesses exemplary leadership skills. As a computer science specialist who was drawn to business in part because it allowed her to put her quantitative background to practical use, Swan and her handpicked team paved... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

in education when people say they don't want computers in the classroom because kids won't learn about the real world. My research made me conclude that in order to make the technology work for us, we need strong communities on the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

say, a cloud computing company. "I think the [venture philanthropy] model really does work," he said. "It's long term and makes it hard to see short-term results. But we can show mounting evidence that when you put in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

divisions of Big 5 professional service firms to separate themselves from their auditing colleagues in order to enable consultants to take equity positions in their clients' firms. Ilyas Naibov-Aylisli suggested it would be a good way to sell View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

It's an AI-age twist on the classic Turing Test, developed by British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 to judge whether machines could exhibit “intelligence.” Called the “Wade Test,” after the CEO of the company the researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

high-tech products could only be found in the United States. These successes were due in large part to government investment in basic science research and mass production. "During World War II, the American public believed science won the war with the atom bomb,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

gold-medal hockey team. Twelve major multinationals, including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, John Hancock, Omega timepieces, Visa, Samsung, and Lenovo, the Chinese computer manufacturer, have paid more than $50 million each over a four-year... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

for assigning children to schools in Boston and New York and for facilitating exchanges of kidneys. Computers enable the design of "smart markets" that combine the inputs of users in complex ways: In kidney exchange, they run... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 1992 (Revised July 1994)
Case

Breaking with the Past?: Four Examples of Product Change

Describes four examples of product change where the new version of the product makes a "break with the past" in some important respect. The four examples are those of the IBM PS/2 family of personal computers, Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software, Nikon's line of SLR... View Details

Keywords: Product Design; Change; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine-learning algorithms to evaluate the abilities of job seekers and provide feedback by measuring not only skills and knowledge, but also personality and behavior traits. Since its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2022
Supplement

Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes

Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies,... View Details