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- January 1989 (Revised March 1995)
- Teaching Note
Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor & (Abridged), Teaching Note
By: Linda A. Hill
Teaching Note for (9-489-084) and (9-490-094).
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- January 1989
- Background Note
Managing Information Technology: Communications Networks
By: James I. Cash Jr. and Thomas H. Davenport
Cash, James I., Jr., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Managing Information Technology: Communications Networks." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-131, January 1989.
- January 1989
- Background Note
Managing Information Technology: Computer Systems and Components
By: James I. Cash Jr. and Thomas H. Davenport
Cash, James I., Jr., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Managing Information Technology: Computer Systems and Components." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-130, January 1989.
- January 1989
- Background Note
Managing Information Technology: Organization and Leadership
By: James I. Cash Jr. and Thomas H. Davenport
Describes the organizational components of the typical IT organization in a large corporation. Points out common problems and issues for each component of the organization. Also addresses the leadership issues for the IT function, and focuses specifically on the Chief...
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Keywords:
Information Management;
Organizational Design;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Information Technology;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry
Cash, James I., Jr., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Managing Information Technology: Organization and Leadership." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-133, January 1989.
- January 1989
- Background Note
Managing Information Technology: System Development
By: James I. Cash Jr. and Thomas H. Davenport
Provides an overview of the system development process in large organizations. Describes traditional life cycle approaches as well as more recent methods, e.g., prototyping. The objective is to familiarize students with the terminology and issues involving system...
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Cash, James I., Jr., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Managing Information Technology: System Development." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-132, January 1989.
- January 1989
- Case
Cathay Pacific Airways (A): Globalization of Airline Reservation and Distribution Systems Technology
Cash, James I., Jr. "Cathay Pacific Airways (A): Globalization of Airline Reservation and Distribution Systems Technology." Harvard Business School Case 189-144, January 1989.
- January 1989 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization
By: Lynda M. Applegate and James I. Cash Jr.
General Electric Canada used sociotechnical design techniques to restructure its financial, administrative, facilities, and information technology service from a decentralized, hierarchical organization to a centralized organization composed of self-managing,...
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Keywords:
Organizational Design;
Information Technology;
Groups and Teams;
Change;
Communication;
Information;
Industrial Products Industry;
Canada
Applegate, Lynda M., and James I. Cash Jr. "General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization." Harvard Business School Case 189-138, January 1989. (Revised March 1991.)
- January 1989
- Supplement
IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (C)
By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen
Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-098, January 1989.
- January 1989 (Revised October 1991)
- Case
Center for Machine Intelligence: Computer Support for Cooperative Work
Applegate, Lynda M. "Center for Machine Intelligence: Computer Support for Cooperative Work." Harvard Business School Case 189-135, January 1989. (Revised October 1991.)
- January 1989 (Revised July 1991)
- Case
Bank for International Development, Software Case
By: W. Carl Kester and Timothy A. Luehrman
A hypothetical case in which an assistant treasurer of a supranational bank is asked to determine in which currencies it has been cheaper ex post to borrow. An integral part of the case is a Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet containing monthly data on yen and dollar interest...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Interest Rates;
International Finance;
Relationships;
Currency;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Analytics and Data Science;
Inflation and Deflation
Kester, W. Carl, and Timothy A. Luehrman. "Bank for International Development, Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 289-034, January 1989. (Revised July 1991.)
- January 1989
- Teaching Note
The World VCR Industry, Teaching Note
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-387-098).
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- January 1989 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Xerox Corp.: Executive Support Systems
Keywords:
Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Xerox Corp.: Executive Support Systems." Harvard Business School Case 189-134, January 1989. (Revised March 1990.)
- December 1988
- Article
Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
By: Dennis Yao
This paper examines the dynamics of standard-setting regulation under technological uncertainty and asymmetric information about technological capability. A two-period model which allows fully strategic action is developed and applied to the regulation of automobile...
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Keywords:
Transportation;
Pollutants;
Standards;
Governance Controls;
Technological Innovation;
Research and Development;
Mathematical Methods
Yao, Dennis. "Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 15 (December 1988): 419–438. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- November 1988 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor
By: Linda A. Hill
At a time of great changes in the corporate environment, Larry Yoshino, a design lab manager at Parsons Controls Corp., faces a delay in a costly defense project due to the inability of one of his subordinates to gain the cooperation of engineers at Parsons'...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Conflict Management;
Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Employees;
Competitive Strategy;
Projects
Hill, Linda A. "Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor." Harvard Business School Case 489-084, November 1988. (Revised July 1997.)
- Article
Computer-Aided Deliberation: Model Management and Group Decision Support
By: J. F. Nunamaker, L. M. Applegate and B. R. Konsynski
Nunamaker, J. F., L. M. Applegate, and B. R. Konsynski. "Computer-Aided Deliberation: Model Management and Group Decision Support." Operations Research 36, no. 6 (November–December 1988).
- Article
Computer-Aided Deliberation: Model Management and Group Decision Support
By: J. F. Nunamaker, L. M. Applegate and Benn R Konsynski
Nunamaker, J. F., L. M. Applegate, and Benn R Konsynski. "Computer-Aided Deliberation: Model Management and Group Decision Support." Operations Research 36, no. 6 (November–December 1988).
- November–December 1988
- Article
Information Technology and Tomorrow's Manager
By: L. M. Applegate, J. I. Cash and Q. D. Mills
Keywords:
Information Technology
Applegate, L. M., J. I. Cash, and Q. D. Mills. "Information Technology and Tomorrow's Manager." Harvard Business Review 66, no. 6 (November–December 1988): 128–36.
- October 1988 (Revised May 1998)
- Teaching Note
Lotus Development Corp.: Entering International Markets, Note on Comparative Advantage, & Note on Sources of Comparative Advantage, TN
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-387-034), (9-387-023), and (9-387-024).
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- October 1988 (Revised May 1989)
- Case
General Electric: Consumer Electronics Group
By: David J. Collis and Nancy Donohue
Highlights the General Electric takeover of RCA and the consolidation of the two companies' consumer electronic groups. Starting first with a history of the television industry in the United States, Europe, and Japan, and then a brief discussion of the main competitors...
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Collis, David J., and Nancy Donohue. "General Electric: Consumer Electronics Group." Harvard Business School Case 389-048, October 1988. (Revised May 1989.)
- October 1988
- Case
Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma
An information systems vice president has one hour to make an ethical decision: should a software program, left inadvertently on the company's computer, be copied and stored? Copying the program would protect clients' assets, but it seems to violate the vendor...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Ethics;
Contracts;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Information Technology Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 189-085, October 1988.