Information Technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 1987
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How Information Technology Is Changing Management Control Systems

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Keywords: Information Technology; Change; Management Systems

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Harvard & HBS IT Policies | Information Technology

Harvard & HBS IT Policies Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to protecting the information that is critical to teaching, research, and the University’s many varied activities, our business operation, and the communities we... View Details

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Protecting Yourself Against Social Engineering | Information Technology

Protecting Yourself Against Social Engineering What is Social Engineering? Social Engineering is a method that bad actors will use to trick people into giving them sensitive information or access. The types of View Details

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Technology and Operations Management - MBA Required Curriculum

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Operations Management; Operations

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International Comparison of the Management of Information Technology

Having set out to compare Western and Japanese IT-management practices, we were startled to discover that Japanese companies rarely experience the IT problems so common in the United States and Europe. In this project, we seek to further explore the five principles of... View Details

2015
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Information Technology and the Distribution of Economic Activity

By: Shane Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb and Chris Forman

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28 Jan 2020

Information Session at the Illinois Institute of Technology

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2022
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Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision

By: Michael J. Lenox and Michael W. Toffel

Why are some firms more successful in adopting profitable environmental management practices than others? A key role of corporate managers is to encourage subsidiaries to adopt innovative practices. We examine the conditions under which corporate managers use... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Strategy; Information Provision; Environmental Management; Knowledge Dissemination

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May 2014 (Revised June 2014)
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Intellectual Property Strategy at North Technology Group—Sailing Downwind

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and William W. Fisher III

North Sails is the world's leading sailmaker. The company commands a global market share of more than 50% and is largely responsible for the rapid technological progress in the sailmaking industry over the past 30 years. CEO Tom Whidden needs to consider how to best... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property

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July 1990 (Revised October 1995)
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Xerox Corp.: Leadership of the Information Technology Function (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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December 2012 (Revised March 2015)
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AmTran Technology Ltd.

By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson

As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,... View Details

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Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from Plant-Level Data

By: Chris Forman and Kristina McElheran

We study the relationship between different margins of information technology (IT) use and vertical integration using plant-level data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures. Focusing on the short-run decision of whether to allocate production output to downstream plants... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Production; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Vertical Integration; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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March 1988 (Revised September 1995)
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Xerox Corp.: Leadership of the Information Technology Function (A)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Leadership; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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July 1992 (Revised August 1993)
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Note on Information Technology and Quick Response Logistics

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21 Oct 2019

Information Session at the California Institute of Technology

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June 2007 (Revised October 2007)
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Information Technology and Clinical Operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, F. Warren McFarlan and Julia Rose Adler-Milstein

Describes the history of clinical computing at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and the development, since the 1996 merger to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of an information system designed to support the delivery of patient care. The hospitals' CIO, John... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Design; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Boston

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June 2005 (Revised July 2006)
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Note on the Convergence Between Genomics & Information Technology

By: David B. Yoffie, Dharmesh M Mehta and Rachel Sha

Focuses on the convergence between the genomics and semiconductor industries, in particular organ printing, DNA computing, biomolecular sensory networks, and DNA microarrays. Explains what this newly converged world looks like based on current research and findings in... View Details