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Arjun Chopra
Arjun Chopra (MBA 2004) is a Partner at FLOODGATE and leads the firm's investments in opportunities that transform the "IT stack" in ways that help companies change the way they do business and compete. Arjun was the CTO at Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE), a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BioMine (now BlueOak), which won the 2011 HBS Alumni New Venture Competition. The competition's judges were struck by the company's smart business plan and how it addressed a very great need. According to the EPA, in 2007 an estimated 29.9 million desktop View Details
Thomas G. Stemberg
Staples stores throughout the US, Stemberg added new services for small businesses including a copier center, a technology resource for managing computer networks, and office furniture. Staples became one of only six retail outlets to... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details
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Sam Li
Technology is what I live and breathe. I studied computer science in college and have since worked in the tech industry. How could anybody hate technology? The web has made everything so simple. And we all love our smartphones, right? Not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
thousands of HBS alumni. Whether through creative destruction, disruptive innovation, or riding a societal quantum leap forward, HBS alumni entrepreneurs have founded or grown companies that are pervasive and familiar, from consumer products to financial services, from... View Details
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
The 2+2 Program was unknown to me until late in my senior year as an Electrical and Computer Engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). By happenstance, a recent UT alum and friend told me about the opportunity. Up to... View Details
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PJ Meyer
Even while pursuing his computer science major at Binghamton, PJ Meyer found himself following a different kind of calling. "In school, there was tendency to steer us toward software engineering positions," says PJ. "But I... View Details
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Jonathan Evans
From the time Jonathan Evans got his first computer in middle school – an IBM Aptiva complete with a DVD encyclopedia, featuring actor Patrick Stewart in the introductory video – he was hooked on technology. Years later, after graduating... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
classroom experience has everything to do with the level of interactivity between faculty and students, and these virtual classrooms provide a better online experience.” Students log in from their respective computers all over the world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
Rose. The highly configurable hives and other areas employ state-of-the-art computer and video technology to enhance learning. Moreover, the building’s carefully crafted lighting, design, and music encourage an outside-the-box mind-set.... View Details
- February 2018 (Revised December 2019)
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Rise of the Drones: Identified Technologies
By: Andy Wu and George Gonzalez
The founder and CEO of Identified Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based drone software and services company, faces a dilemma when San Francisco–based DroneDeploy begins to disrupt the industry with its drone software platform. Identified Technologies needs to consider... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Disruption; Network Effects; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Pittsburgh; San Francisco
Wu, Andy, and George Gonzalez. "Rise of the Drones: Identified Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 718-482, February 2018. (Revised December 2019.)
- September 2007
- Teaching Note
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Web Services Strategy (TN)
- December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment
By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Rafael M. Di Tella and Prabakar (PK) Kothandaraman
Shortly after Infosys was founded in 1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to operate without giving in to the petty corruption rife in the Indian economy. Within just a few years, that decision had truly defined the company. Over the... View Details
Keywords: History; Management Style; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Situation or Environment; Crime and Corruption; Business Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; India
Abdelal, Rawi E., Rafael M. Di Tella, and Prabakar (PK) Kothandaraman. "Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment." Harvard Business School Case 707-030, December 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- July 2000 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Greeley Hard Copy, Portable Scanner Initiative (C)
By: Michael L. Tushman and Daniel Radov
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Tushman, Michael L., and Daniel Radov. "Greeley Hard Copy, Portable Scanner Initiative (C)." Harvard Business School Case 401-005, July 2000. (Revised April 2011.)
- September 1989 (Revised January 1990)
- Case
Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A)
Describes how Vinod Khosla got Sun Microsystems started, and a critical marketing challenge the company faced at the end of the first year. Objective is to illustrate how bold creative thinking can make or break start-ups. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
Bhide, Amar. "Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-049, September 1989. (Revised January 1990.)
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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library
applying for, and receiving, a Harvard Library borrower card . Alumni access to eBooks is limited to the computers in the Stamps Reading Room (3rd floor of Baker Library). View Alumni-Authored Books by Graduation year 1955 1960 1965 1970... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
have similarly discovered over the past 25 years. By supporting Lang's creativity and unconventional thinking, high-tech startups and established computer firms alike have found their assets turning to gold under her fingers. "I've always... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing,... View Details