Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally. In other words, infrastructure is built on top infrastructure, which opens up new possibilities that weren't possible before. This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems. What was my title?

Venture Capitalist 21

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Many information or content providers, as I'll term them, see themselves as the Node Zero in marketing their content. A book publisher, for example, puts out a book and then manages who receives copies. It was for that reason that so many have taken Stewart Brand's 1984 notion that " information wants to be free " to heart.

Information 15

Information Content Open-book Price 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Recently, after a decade-long legal battle, Google succeeded in its defense against a class action suit by publishers and the Authors Guild over the Google Books project of scanning more than 20 million books. Google Books represents a major victory for Internet search engines and consumers. But don’t just take my word for it.

Technology 9

Technology Open-book Information Technology Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

I recently finished writing a book about business experimentation and its future. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Ethics Information & technology Innovation' but sometimes, they will.

Ethics 9

Ethics Zimbardo Kahneman Explicit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

I wrote a book once. But most of the time it’s me and a computer or iPad or book. I think I am pretty curious and open-minded, so that score makes sense. Hiring Information & technology Job search' This is undeniable. It was supposed to take me two years. It took more than five.)

Hedge 13

Hedge Efficiency Information Technology Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In the same way that tightly controlled unicellular life eventually evolved into more open and distributed multicellular life, the rapid evolution of cyber threats has outpaced the evolution of defensive barriers. So how do we operate in an effectively open-source world without barriers?

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Open-book Technology System 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. In the book, The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value , Richard Hunter and I coined the phrase CIO-Plus.

CIO 9

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

million downloads of accessible books through its online library, to over 200,000 people with disabilities such as blindness and severe dyslexia. We already collect a great deal of information like which books are downloaded most, but our delivery model has been similar to that of print textbooks: "Here it is; hope it's useful!"

Open-book 10

Open-book Download Analysis Information 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Drucker’s book, Management Challenges for the 21 st Century , is an example. His consideration of information technology in light of the history of the printing trade leads to surprising conclusions. He held a mirror in front of us that continues to open new perspectives and helps us better understand the future.

Drucker 8

Drucker Koestler Open-book Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world.

Company 8

Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee tell two such stories in the opening post, Big Data's Management Revolution. The Spotlight in the October issue of HBR, which complements this Insight Center , focuses on those managerial challenges and how they can be overcome. Please join the conversation.

Webinar 8

Webinar Open-book Information Media 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2015

When one of us (Walker) helped developed the idea that became Priceline.com, the challenge was to solve a decades-long problem: how could airplanes and hotels fill their last, otherwise empty and perishable rooms and seats while holding the line on the price and profitability of most bookings? All of this is changing now for the better.

Innovation 8

Innovation Licensing Directory Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Unless you have already established online profiles at the companies, when you book a flight, a rental car, a hotel, and the concert tickets, you will have to enter your name, address, phone numbers, and credit card details for each and follow each company’s unique booking process.

Execution 8

Execution Hotels Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We also immersed ourselves in over 800 related sources — published books, internal reports, and online systems. We conducted around 100 interviews, not with mainstream professionals but with leaders and new providers in eight professional fields: health, law, education, audit, tax, consulting, journalism, architecture, and divinity.

System 8

System Creativity Health Care Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

It features a number of architectural details that serve no purpose: doorways that open onto walls, labyrinthine hallways that lead nowhere, and stairways that rise only to a ceiling. There are many ways to assess the impact of scientific work , from book sales (where Who Moved My Cheese? do nice guys finish last?).

Management 8

Management Retail Ethics Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? Competitive Strategy Book. When and how should you implement it? Excerpted from. Add to Cart.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Ten years ago, Jeanne Harris and I published the book Competing on Analytics , and we’ve just finished updating it for publication in September. One major reason for the update is that analytical technology has changed dramatically over the last decade; the sections we wrote on those topics have become woefully out of date.

Open-book 8

Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Friedman wrote about the great unraveling of traditional leadership across the globe: The main driver, I believe, is the merger of globalization and the Information Technology revolution. In the December 18, 2011 edition of the New York Times , Thomas L.

Leadership 106

Leadership Information Technology Bottom-up Globalization 106

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford, is the author of a book I had been meaning to read for a while, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. One of the great mistakes people made in reviewing my book was to say, “Wow, it’s great. became The Man.

Information Technology 15

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive. All of this suggests that technology, and specifically software, is behind the growing dominance of big companies. IT Does Matter.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Still, it wasn’t until 50 years later that Edison opened his first power plant, and then 40 years after that, during the 1920s, electricity began to have a measurable impact on productivity. Every technology follows a similar path of discovery, engineering, and transformation.

Industry 15

Industry GDP Technology Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled that books printed and purchased abroad could be legally imported into the U.S. After all, Kirtsaeng's family paid retail price for the books. Consumers in Thailand, on average, have less to spend on books and other media than Americans. prices in Thailand, fewer books would be sold.

Price 19

Price Open-book Retail Content 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It''s only through history and books or films that my generation has a grasp of what life must have been like. The difficulty with which it is possible to pry open this world, and the consequences for doing so, are escalating rapidly, too. Government Information & technology' intelligence to the K.G.B.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled that books printed and purchased abroad could be legally imported into the U.S. After all, Kirtsaeng's family paid retail price for the books. Consumers in Thailand, on average, have less to spend on books and other media than Americans. prices in Thailand, fewer books would be sold.

Price 12

Price Open-book Retail Content 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

At Techonomy, Ranadivé made his math-is-trumping-science comments after recommending that the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy in the U.S., In his book, Silver spends a lot of time on another crucial element, how we go about revising our views as new data comes in. be replaced with a computer program.

Hedge 19

Hedge Committee Open-book Policies 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

At Techonomy, Ranadivé made his math-is-trumping-science comments after recommending that the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy in the U.S., In his book, Silver spends a lot of time on another crucial element, how we go about revising our views as new data comes in. be replaced with a computer program.

Hedge 12

Hedge Committee Open-book Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Court of Appeals (two appointed by Bill Clinton and one by Ronald Reagan) ruled in January that the previous set of “open Internet” (that’s what the FCC calls net neutrality) standards violated the law and the agency’s own rules. An open Internet does seem like a good thing. Circuit of the U.S. Comcast sued, and the D.C.

Telecommunications 11

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 11