Information And Transformation Function - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

November 1999 (Revised April 2002)
Case

International Business Machines Corporation (B)

By: David F. Hawkins

IBM changes pension plan from a defined benefit plan to a cash-balance plan. Teaching purpose: To understand pension accounting. View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Transformation; Business Earnings; Private Sector; Personal Finance; Cash; Information Infrastructure; Taxation; Computer Industry; Accounting Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

information advantages across delegates and delegators, (2) reports both stocks and flows in the measures of account, and (3) has a mutually... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

environmental groups. Had Stone taken into account the history of strained relationships between Honduras and the U.S. government and multinationals, as well as the fragile status of the presidency in this... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

and currency crises—is a crucial aspect to making informed managerial decisions. The cases in this book have been designed to give students an appreciation of the critical role of institutions View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

of understanding of their company's business. They cited two reasons. First, there are too many independent directors in the boardroom, and it takes them too long to figure out what the business is all about. Second, there's a flaw in... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

MaterialsLeaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 1 Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson HoutHarvard Business School Case 311-032 Joel Klein took over the NYC Department of Education in 2002 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

wrong, especially given that many of the early FBC missions had been tremendously successful. And I was convinced that the answers could help inform a wide variety of situations in which organizations were... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

October 2010
Teaching Note

From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

Teaching Note for 610057. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Taxation; Information Technology; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Technology Adoption; Supply Chain; Motorcycle Industry

Citation

Purchase

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

offered proper incentives for standardizing and sharing the information they collect. Even the industry's brightest minds and hardest workers have yet to definitively determine... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

to transform relationships in the value net in advantageous ways. Ford carefully fosters competition among its suppliers and manufacturers critical components in-house to ensure that the company does not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

empower teams who are closer to the customer and unlock the full potential of organizations. While born in the software world, the approach is viewed as transformative in both software View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

information technology until something breaks. This crisis required rapid and large reallocation of modern information technology, with particular links to communications. Some... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

year filled with fast-moving developments in generative AI, the incorporation of the tools into search and shopping functions sheds light on just how powerful AI-enhanced search engines like Microsoft Bing... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

discounting is robust to various controls for unobserved proposal quality and alternative explanations. Additional tests suggest information effects rather than strategic effects account for the novelty... View Details