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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
Greenwich in recognition of its community programs. The HBS African-American Alumni Association has a long-standing relationship with the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Academy in the South Bronx. Whether it’s working with Dell to provide classroom View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break data bottlenecks and speed up DNA... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
for information. "The whole point of this segment of the course was to say: 'Let's come down from the mountaintop and talk about how real managers get the work of the organization done,'" says Garvin, who decided that for this exercise the View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
participants - in similar positions in a broad range of businesses. Offered for the second time last spring, TGM brought together 43 senior-level general managers from more than a dozen countries, representing industries such as mining, textiles, View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
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work in long-term planning under risk and uncertainty ranged from helping to pioneer computer applications at large companies to charting U.S. space policy as a member of a Presidential task force. Meyer, a 1953 graduate of Harvard... View Details
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Palis Pisuttisarun | MBA
Palis Pisuttisarun Computer Science/Philosophy, Secondary in Mind, Brain, Behavior Adams 2024 Cohort 5 Steve Jobs once said that, "Creativity is just connecting things." Being a Tech Fellow means being able to dive into a community of... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
(in particular DRAMs and FLASH memory) and flat panel displays. Taiwan is also the center for notebook computer manufacturing, and Taiwanese companies, through their China-based manufacturing and assembly operations, drive 60% of the IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
modeling exercise (using the same computer tools employed by the ratings agencies) that demonstrates that the challenge of rating structured products lies in their extreme sensitivity to estimation errors—that even modest imprecision in... View Details
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Dan Bricklin Classroom, Aldrich Hall 108 | About
technology entrepreneur, has been an active part of the computing industry continually since the 1970s. Upon graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bricklin worked for Digital Equipment Corporation until 1976, when he... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces. The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
algorithms that have been supercharged with more data and computing power, she says. “It’s not that they aren’t accomplishing interesting things—they are,” she notes. “But they’re not doing it in a way that your brain does it. So the next... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Changes for MBA Applicants
response is a good idea. When I interview people for a position, I put them in front of a computer and make them write me a letter in 15 minutes. About half can’t do it well enough to get hired.” —Chris Slavin (MBA 1984) View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
them in their native countries. Today, America is the leader in only five product areas: computer hardware, software, biotechnology, aerospace, and entertainment. That is not enough to provide job opportunities for a country of 300... View Details
Keywords: Byron Wien; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments in the business world is the growth of automatic data processing," wrote a faculty member in... View Details
- June 2013
- Background Note
Mobilizing an Online Business
By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
Entrepreneurs starting online businesses often need to mobilize multiple sets of users or customers, each of whom hesitates to participate unless others join also. This case presents several challenges with similar structure. View Details
Keywords: Mobilization Strategy; Network Effects; Platforms; Internet; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
Coles, Peter, and Benjamin Edelman. "Mobilizing an Online Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 913-061, June 2013. (request a courtesy copy.)
- August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Developing Countries and Economies; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Cambridge
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A). Harvard Business School Case 508-024, August 2007. (Revised September 2008.)
- 01 May 1998
- Conference Presentation
Rapid Learning and Adaptation in Product Development: An Empirical Study of the Internet Software Industry
By: Alan MacCormack, M. Iansiti and R Verganti
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using an online platform to reinvent education
Students can take advantage of the extensive library of more than 6,000 educational videos, 100,000 interactive challenges, and assessments from any computer with web access. Every interaction with the system is logged so that parents and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE [Sound of golf club hitting ball] In 2020, Aaron Sabin was working as a mechanical engineer at the golfing equipment company TaylorMade. Aaron Sabin: What I would do is I would design a golf club on the View Details