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- 21 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from Plant-Level Data
Keywords: by Chris Forman & Kristina McElheran
- Web
GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology
GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws In the past few years, many countries and states have enacted laws to protect individuals' privacy. These laws cover any information that may be obtained when someone participates or interacts with a Harvard... View Details
- Web
Using Personal Devices for HBS Business | Information Technology
our work. Since these devices aren't managed by HBS IT, it's important to remember that you are responsible for ensuring that they are configured in a way to protect not only Harvard systems and information, but your own as well. protects our devices and the View Details
- December 1987 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (B)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard
Applegate, Lynda M., and Donna B. Stoddard. "Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (B)." Harvard Business School Case 188-038, December 1987. (Revised March 1990.)
- August 1988 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (C)
Applegate, Lynda M. "Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (C)." Harvard Business School Case 189-051, August 1988. (Revised March 1990.)
- May 2014 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
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
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and William W. Fisher III. "Intellectual Property Strategy at North Technology Group—Sailing Downwind." Harvard Business School Case 714-403, May 2014. (Revised June 2014.)
- June 1990 (Revised January 1992)
- Teaching Note
Information Technology & Managerial Effectiveness: Course Overview, Instructors Note
- November 2008
- Teaching Note
Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling Business Transformation (TN)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah Soule
Teaching Note for [807167]. View Details
- February 1999 (Revised May 2002)
- Teaching Note
MicroAge, Inc.: Orchestrating the Information Technology Value Chain TN
Teaching Note for (9-398-068). View Details
- Web
Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon | Information Technology
and personality through the multimedia technology used in lululemon is just fantastic. The case comes much more alive for a case on culture, innovation, leadership, and change. Michael L. Tushman ; Senior Fellow Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class... View Details
- August 1988
- Background Note
Note on the Use of Information Technology in Retailing
Mead, Melissa J. "Note on the Use of Information Technology in Retailing." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-024, August 1988.
- 1994
- Book
Building the Information-Age Organization: Structure, Control, and Information Technologies
Cash, J. I., Jr., R. G. Eccles, N. Nohria, and R. Nolan. Building the Information-Age Organization: Structure, Control, and Information Technologies. 3rd ed. Irwin Case Book Series in Information Systems Management. Irwin, 1994.
- 1993
- Chapter
An Assessment of the Productivity Impact of Information Technologies
By: Gary W. Loveman
Loveman, Gary W. "An Assessment of the Productivity Impact of Information Technologies." In Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s: Research Studies, edited by Thomas J. Allen and Michael S. Scott Morton, 84–110. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Research Summary
Information Technology and Vertical Integration: Evidence from Plant-level Data (with Chris Forman)
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
- September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
- Case
Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (B)
By: W. Earl Sasser and Josep Valor
Acting on his vision to make the World Bank a knowledge institution, bank President Wolfensohn announces the creation of an Information and Knowledge Management Council and an Information Solutions Group, headed by a newly nominated CEO, Mohamed Muhsin. This case... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Knowledge Management; Management Teams; Information Management; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
Sasser, W. Earl, and Josep Valor. "Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (B)." Harvard Business School Case 898-054, September 1997. (Revised October 1997.)
- November 2014
- Article
The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology
By: David Dranove, Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
Dranove, David, Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein. "The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6, no. 4 (November 2014).
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
Summing Up Do not read too much into a possible relationship between the development of information technology and the incidence of "upside-down" management. That's the overwhelming message from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2014
- Working Paper
Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance
By: Lamar Pierce, Daniel Snow and Andrew McAfee
This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data from 392 restaurant locations from five firms that adopt a theft monitoring information technology... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Employees
Pierce, Lamar, Daniel Snow, and Andrew McAfee. "Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance." MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 5029-13, October 2014.
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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
community satisfaction. To achieve this, the team continually takes in feedback to ensure our offerings are aligned to our customers’ evolving needs. Over the past several years, a few areas for improvement emerged for Technology Support... View Details
- February 2018
- Article
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and... View Details
Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research and Development; Immigration; United States
Kerr, William R. "Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns." World Bank Economic Review 32, no. 1 (February 2018): 163–182.