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- Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference
- It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the mid-1990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hypercompetition: IT. Thanks to powerful...
- Articles 2008-07-18
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- What You Can Learn from McAfee's 100 Tweets in a Day
- You may already be harnessing the marketing power of Twitter, but have you used it 100 times in one day? Last month, Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee conducted an experiment thanks to a lost bet in which he sent 100 Tweets in one day. As a result, he picked...
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Business Oracles Vs. Technology: Which Will Win Out?
- Steve Jobs. Warren Buffet. Don Draper. What do these legendary businessmen (two real, one fictional) have in common? According to Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee, they are business oracles, charismatic individuals who produce bold and often brilliant decisions largely by themselves. Last time we checked in with...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- The Two Dimensions Of Collective Intelligence
- Web users generate two kinds of information, explicit and implicit. Explicit is what you set out to create: blog posts, tags, wikis. But it's the information you create without thinking as you make your way across the Web that may be far more important in the long...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Facebook as Corporate Intranet -- It's Starting to Happen
- A few months ago, Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee applauded the business value of Facebook and similar social networking platforms. What he did not envision, he says today, is that Facebook could be much more: a replacement for the corporate intranet. But now that developer Serena...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- How to Use Web 2.0 Inside Your Company
- Today the business world is undergoing a significant transformation thanks to a set of technologies collectively known as "Web 2.0." Although it's tempting to dismiss Web 2.0 as Silicon Valley hype, that would be a mistake. Start Small and Simply Goal: Identify a Web...
- Articles 2007-05-15
- Why IT Not Only Matters, But Now More Than Ever
- When Nicholas Carr argued famously and contentiously a few years back that IT doesn't matter anymore, his more subtle point was missed. Having effective IT just means you are part of the competitive status quo. Most of your competitors will have similar technology to yours, so...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- B-School Blogs: the Art of 90-Person Conversations, Crossing Party Lines, and More
- Over on the MIT Sloan Blog, the latest entry shares one student's relief and gratitude for having gotten to know professor Simon Johnson over the past few months. In addition to his considerable expertise and energy, the blogger shares that Johnson "has given even an economics ignoramus like me an...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- B-School Profs on Students as Customers, the Trouble With Brainstorming, and More
- This week, we take a look at blogs written by business school professors: "Student as customer" metaphor chaps his hide -- Dr. Gad Saad, associate professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, offers a rant on the Psychology Today blog about...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- B-School Profs on Madoff, Selection Bias and Missing the Next Google
- Three lessons from the Bernie Madoff scandal -- Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, sees many lessons, both useful and non-useful, coming on the heels of the Madoff scandal. The urge to over-diversify, search for more bad apples and define "acceptable" levels of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Fraud allegations followed restatement at McAfee.
- By Andrew Countryman, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Andrew Countryman, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Research articles 2004-09-06
- The (Big) Friday Round-Up
- Web 2.0: Lessons in ROI from Threadless Plenty of businesses still don't see where Web 2.0 delivers a return on investment, says David Tebbut at SmallBizPod. Inc's profile of Threadless, the online community-led T-shirt retailer whose 2006 profit was an estimated $6m,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Windows 7 critical holes fixed in Microsoft's biggest Patch Tuesday
- Microsoft released a record number of 13 bulletins for 34 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday and the first critical update for Windows 7, as well as fixes for zero-day flaws involving Server Message Block SMB and Internet Information Services IIS.The most severe of the three SMB flaws, which were first reported...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Verizon to Buy Naming Rights to Oakland Coliseum? [Voices]
- Verizon Wireless VZ is reportedly in the final stages of negotiating a five-year, multi-million dollar deal for the naming rights to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, the decrepit home of the Oakland A???s and the Oakland Raiders. The report, by the San Francisco Chronicle columnists Philip Matier and Andrew Ross, notes...
- News items 2009-08-10
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