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Educators

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

Tell us about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Prior to HBS, I spent six years in the oil and gas industry working primarily on taking technologies in the energy space from the lab to the field. Being exposed to... View Details

1996
Chapter

The Emperor's New Information Economy

By: S. Zuboff

Keywords: Information; Economy; Information Technology Industry

2021
Working Paper

Accounting for Product Impact in the Water Utilities Industry

By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh

We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the water utilities industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates of water... View Details

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10 Dec 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Wesley Brandi; Publishing; Technology

May 2001 (Revised April 2005)
Exercise

Betonn Corporation: Confidential Negotiation Information

By: James K. Sebenius

A two-party, multiple-issue dollar-scoring negotiation exercise dealing with the formation and terms of an IT-industry joint venture. Subordinates have made some progress on several issues but have reached an impasse. Division heads will now attempt to reach a... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Types; Joint Ventures; Conflict Management; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

February 1996
Teaching Note

ToyWorld: Information Technology Planning TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Teaching Note for (9-195-262). View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry

April 2008
Article

The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project

By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu

This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Survey of Industrial R&D conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The dataset constitutes a platform that offers an unprecedented view of... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Patents; Surveys; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library

Case Writing & Industry The case method is powerful because it allows students to grapple with problems as if they are the decision maker. In the end, they can actually imagine engaging with real solutions as leaders who can make a... View Details

Research Summary

Complement Distribution on Platforms: Browser Wars from an Industry Perspective

Empirical analysis of diffusion of new technolgoies, such as the browser, accounting for quality and distribution channels. Joint work with Tim Bresnahan. Exploits discrepancies in survey data to examine the role of information and awareness in consumer choice for... View Details

July 1979 (Revised August 1986)
Background Note

Sources of Real Estate Information

By: William J. Poorvu

Keywords: Information; Real Estate Industry

April 1987 (Revised July 1989)
Case

Lockheed-Georgia Co.: Executive Information Systems

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Business Divisions; Information Technology Industry

fall 1995
Article

Standard Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao

Examines the antitrust treatment of private-sector standard setting in the U.S. Applicability of law and decision-making issues in high technology industries; Examination of cost-based facilitating theory; Approach to evaluate the reasonableness of a standard. View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Information Technology; Law; Decision Making; Cost; Theory; Performance Evaluation; Standards; United States

1993
Article

Innovation and the Structure of High-Technology Industries

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Business Ventures

2019
Working Paper

Industrial Change, the Boundary of the Firm, and Racial Employment Segregation

By: John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning

Racial employment segregation between large workplaces in America has grown over the last generation. We know little about how changes in patterns of employment by economic sector have contributed to this growth, though. While there are many stylized narratives about... View Details

Keywords: Workplace Segregation; Firm Boundaries; Organizations; Employees; Segmentation; Race; Change; United States

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June 1995 (Revised February 1998)
Case

Welsh Water (A): General Information

This is a four-player negotiation simulation in which a newly-privatized British water utility must deal with contentious unions and national collective-bargaining agreements. Explores the question of coalitions and multi-lateral negotiations, and the value of... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Privatization; Labor Unions; Utilities Industry; Wales

Educators

September 2010
Teaching Note

Information Technology at COSCO (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for 305080. View Details

Keywords: Shipping Industry; China

July 2007 (Revised April 2008)
Case

Secom: Managing Information Security in a Risky World

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Robert D. Austin, Junko Usuba and Masako Egawa

Examines the type of security that is appropriate for an Internet company to have on its site. Focuses on a 20-person electronic e-commerce company trying to decide what parts of the information security product line they should acquire from the largest security... View Details

Keywords: Information Management; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Safety; Operations; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Japan

Educators