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Tech giants hit back at bad boy Carr
News Executives from IBM and Microsoft on Monday at Comdex attacked the findings of Nicholas Carr, the consultant who became a technology industry bad boy when the Harvard Business Review published an article he wrote entitled "IT Doesn't Matter". [19 Nov 2003]
Succeed by Involving Your Customers
White Paper Customer Loyalty: According to the Harvard Business Review, "the average U.S.corporation loses one-half their customers every five years and these rates stunt corporate growth up to 35 percent.If you acknowledge your customers as partners -a... [03 Jul 2008]
Does IT Matter?
White Paper In this Webcast, the author of the controversial Harvard Business Review article and the senior vice president of SAS provide their points of view on questions like: Do IT-driven initiatives produce expected returns? [23 Jun 2006]
Beyond the Hype: How to Make Web Services Work for Your Organization - Part 1-the Promise of Web Services
White Paper An important trend is that mainstream business press, such as The Harvard Business Review, is discussing how Web services will revolutionize business integration. The business case for B2B integration [03 Jul 2008]
Integrating IT With Business Goals Is Only Marginally Easier Than Reaching the Summit of Everest
White Paper What made this a public debate was an article by Nicholas Carr in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) that went to the heart of the matter by suggesting "IT Doesn't Matter". The IT industry has been going through a period of 'Soul-searching' over how... [15 Nov 2006]
Does an MBA lead the way to career success?
News His book, What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years in the Cauldron of Capitalism in the UK, chronicles his experiences as an MBA student and gets a glowing review from columnist Caroline Baum. [12 Aug 2008]
CEO and CIO still don't see eye to eye
Comment Michael Porter, every CEO's favourite academic, got into the act with a naive Harvard Business Review piece on the internet in early 2001, just as the curtain came crashing down on The Web, Act 1. In those days, I ran a tech session at the Harvard... [01 Mar 2007]
How to Take the Pain Out of Prospecting
White Paper Barry Trailer, Harvard Business Review author, unveils effective tactics for profitable prospecting. For small and mid-sized businesses, developing new business is essential. Chip Conley, coauthor of Marketing That Matters, shows you how you can... [04 Sep 2007]
'Stop buying IT' bosses told
News Nicholas Carr, a perennial thorn in the side of the IT industry and author of the 2003 Harvard Business Review article 'IT doesn't matter', looks set on stirring fresh controversy in the industry, telling companies to stop spending on technology. [04 Oct 2006]
Effective tech marketing - taking honesty as a starting point
News When a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year asked whether IT can add value to a business anymore, given a string of failed projects and security scares, there was more than one CEO who took note. [02 Oct 2003]
CIO Jury: Do businesses spend too much on IT?
News Two-thirds of this week's silicon.com CIO Jury of IT users agreed with Nicholas Carr, author of the 2003 Harvard Business Review article 'IT doesn't matter', in his latest claim that organisations should "spend less on IT". [06 Oct 2006]
Study: Businesses definitely bullish about IT
News A hot topic in the tech community last year was an article in the Harvard Business Review called IT doesn't matter which argued that information technology no longer gave companies that use it a competitive advantage. [08 Apr 2004]
Just For Fun: Extract 3 - The case for being open
Comment At Harvard University Law School, professors Larry Lessig (who is now at Stanford) and Charles Nesson have brought the open source model to law. Now open source expanding beyond the technical and business domains. [16 May 2001]
Leader: Could IT suffer a Carr crash?
Leader Nicholas Carr has thrown fresh salt into the wounds of an IT industry that appears to still be smarting from his 2003 critical essay entitled 'IT doesn't matter', which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. [05 Oct 2006]
Model Management: Strategic planning gone awry?
Comment In a recent essay in MIT Sloan Management Review, Clayton M Christensen, professor and guru of disruptive technologies from Harvard Business School, argues persuasively that what may today be a competitive advantage may not be so tomorrow simply... [05 Feb 2001]
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