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IT Policies & Governance | Information Technology

IT Policies & Governance Policies and guidelines are in place at Harvard Business School and across Harvard to help the community ensure compliance and understanding of how to use to technology and devices... View Details

06 Jan 2014
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Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

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Evolution of firm structure in vertical specialized technology supply chains

By: Willy C. Shih

The global market in many everyday products has been transformed by the internationalization of production. In many industries, semiconductors and electronic products in particular, a sequential mode of production has evolved in which goods are produced... View Details

Keywords: Globalization Of Supply Chain; Globalization; Technological Innovation; Manufacturing Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Asia; China

May 2024
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Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare

Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details

Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States

April 2008
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TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial

By: Michael Beer and Sunru Yong

TerraCog, a successful privately held high-tech firm that develops GPS (global positioning system) and similar products for consumer markets, has recently been caught off-guard by a competitor's new product that makes novel use of satellite imagery. When TerraCog... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Meetings; Decision Making; Group Dynamics; Human Resource Management; Conflict; Information Technology; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Technology Industry

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21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the impacts of hundreds of Bay Area... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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MCI Telecommunications Corp. (C): Data Communications Market Opportunity Assessment

By: John F. Cady and Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Communication Technology; Telecommunications Industry

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

patients vital pressures. "The new technology thus disrupts a well established OR team routine and requires new communication patterns and information flows. Successfully enacting this change affects... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

12 Oct 1999
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Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

of Internet advertising on the industry as a whole. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the industry's external environment fit into three broad categories: technical, regulatory, and economic. Advances in technology reach... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

September 2009
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The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell

Technology management poses particular challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business Education; Multinational Firms and Management; Entertainment; Communication; Curriculum and Courses; Framework; Design; Goals and Objectives; Learning; Information Technology Industry

March 2011
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Valuation of AirThread Connections

By: Erik Stafford and Joel L. Heilprin

This case can be used as a capstone valuation exercise for first-year MBA students in an introductory finance course. A senior associate in the business development group at American Cable Communications, one of the largest cable companies in the U.S., must prepare a... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Present Value; Tax Accounting; Capital Costs; Synergy; Telephony; Wireless Technologies; Communication Technology; Assets; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Cash Flow; Capital Structure; Accounting; Wireless Technology; Communications Industry; Communications Industry

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24 Apr 2014
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Using technology to create a platform for discussion

Having grown up outside Silicon Valley, Linda Leung (MBA 2014) is comfortable with integrating technology and business. It’s no wonder, then, that when she served as online communications manager for the HBS... View Details

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Information Technology Information View Details

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Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA

Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program Supported by the Roberts Family Foundation This program is for current Harvard College students only. Students may be from any Harvard College concentration. As technical and societal... View Details

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Dynamic Silos: Increased Modularity and Decreased Stability in Intra-organizational Communication Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Tiona Zuzul, Emily Cox Pahnke, Jonathan Larson, Christopher White, Patrick Bourke, Nicholas Caurvina, Neha Parikh Shah, Fereshteh Amini, Youngser Park, Joshua Vogelstein, Jeffrey Weston and Carey E. Priebe

Workplace communications around the world were drastically altered by COVID-19, related work-from-home orders, and the rise of remote work. To understand these shifts, we analyzed aggregated, anonymized metadata from over 360 billion emails within 4,361 organizations... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; COVID-19; Communication Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation

December 1978
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Technical Communication in R&D Laboratories: Impacts of Project Work Characteristics

By: Michael Tushman

Keywords: Information Technology; Communication; Research and Development; Projects

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Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project | Information Technology

Featured Case Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project In 2022, the small community of Vinalhaven, Maine faced big questions as it embarked on a major infrastructure initiative—the Downtown Project—to revitalize its downtown and defend against a... View Details

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Surviving Radical Technological Change through Dynamic Capability: Evidence from the Typesetter Industry

Recent work in the field of management has focused on "dynamic capability," the ability of a firm to develop new capabilities in response to shifts in its external environment, as a significant source of competitive advantage. This paper enhances our understanding of... View Details

Keywords: Management; Technology; History; Competition; Competency and Skills; Investment; Technological Innovation; Business Ventures; Geographic Location; Knowledge Acquisition; Competitive Advantage; Change