Profile of Howard Anderson

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School News & Commentary Posts: 41

Howard Anderson is on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He was the founder of the Yankee Group and co-founder of Battery Ventures. He attempts to keep his rampant skepticism from morphing into galloping cynicism, a battle he seems to be losing.

Honk If You See A Dead Satellite

12/23/2014
Satellites, balloons, and drones -- oh my! Today's tech wunderkinds have found the answer to global warming.
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Aging Of America: Internet To The Rescue

9/9/2014
We're running out of money, not technology solutions.
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Mainframe Eulogy: Why We Put Gertrude Down

4/22/2014
Intrepid CIO Stu Laura mourns the death of Big Iron as he embraces the cloud religion.
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Cable TV: The Monopoly That Keeps On Taking

3/5/2014
Everything eventually will flow through your Internet connection. That's why we need more fiber optic competition.
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Jeff Bezos Chats Up James Watt

12/11/2013
What do the public cloud and the steam engine have in common? More than you might think.
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An IT Industry At War

11/20/2013
Who will be the next industry winners? That depends on how the Attackers, Defenders, Arms Merchants, and Customers play their roles.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Max Hopper And The CIOs

7/10/2013
We salute the strategists, peace-makers and visionaries who turned tech innovations into distinct business advantages. Last of a 20-part series.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: The Internet Pioneers

7/3/2013
Just as the Internet isn't hierarchical but a peer-to-peer network, so are its "inventors," a gaggle of visionary nerds.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Steve Jobs

6/28/2013
Apple co-founder, more artist than engineer, blew up the status quo in multiple industries.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Bill Gates

6/20/2013
Bill Gates has gone from the most hated man in the industry to an incomparable technologist, businessman and philanthropist.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Tom Watson Jr.

6/12/2013
Watson's early, $5 billion bet on computers made IBM an institution and moved him out of the shadow of his iconic father.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Steve Case

6/7/2013
AOL's CEO built a compelling case for the true Internet that followed.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Ted Turner And Jerry Levin

5/31/2013
By bringing the world of content to the world of technology, they transformed media and entertainment.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Irving Kahn

5/24/2013
The father of cable television was a visionary and a promoter extraordinaire, but never a candidate for sainthood.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: An Wang

5/15/2013
How easy-to-use, single-application systems changed the face of computing, communications and business decision-making.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Ken Olsen

5/1/2013
Before DEC, computing was scarce and precious. After DEC, computing costs dropped like a rock.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: General Georges Doriot

5/1/2013
Georges Doriot – aka "The General" – understood that prosperity requires both innovation and strong management. He used that philosophy to invent the venture capital industry.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain

4/12/2013
All hail the transistor, the building block of the computer, communications and space ages.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Mauchly And Eckert

4/1/2013
In this seventh installment in our series, Howard Anderson profiles the men behind the ENIAC.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Marconi And Tesla

3/22/2013
In this sixth installment in our series, Howard Anderson profiles the pioneers of radio.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Thomas Edison

3/14/2013
In this fifth installment in our series, Howard Anderson chats up the Wizard of Menlo Park.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Alexander Graham Bell And Theodore Vail

3/13/2013
In this fourth installment in our series, Howard Anderson tells how a masterful inventor and a business genius transformed communications.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Samuel Morse

3/7/2013
In this third installment in our series, Howard Anderson profiles a world-class artist turned inventor of a building block for today's computers.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Francis Cabot Lowell

3/4/2013
In this second installment in our series, Howard Anderson profiles one of the great thieves and populizers of the Industrial Revolution.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: James Watt

2/28/2013
In this first of a series on the great technical minds of history, Howard Anderson chronicles the enormous impact of the inventor of the steam engine.
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Why Private Clouds Will Prevail

11/1/2012
Stu Laura, our irascible CIO, discusses the promise and pressures of private clouds.
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How Middle-Aged Microsoft Can Save Itself

9/14/2012
Microsoft must reverse the five stages of decline before hubris descends into irrelevance, and it's too late.
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Microsoft A Victim Of Its Own Success

7/20/2012
For all its cash and market advantages, Microsoft is a company in decline.
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CIOs: Know Thy Power Brokers

5/23/2012
Our intrepid CIO, Stu Laura, reflects on where to find and cultivate the true power in an IT organization.
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The Myth Of Big Data

3/8/2012
It's time to check in with our good buddy Stu Laura, CIO Supreme, about big data and what his company is doing about it.
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What Steve Jobs Was, And Wasn't

10/7/2011
He was demanding, persistent, and supremely self-confident. Jobs 1: absolute excellence.
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The CIO Vs. The Information Access Mafia

8/2/2011
Stu Laura, our intrepid CIO, takes on a failed and flawed model: providing Least Access to data.
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Forget Farmville: We Need CIO-Ville Or Call Of CIO Duty

6/6/2011
Our intrepid CIO friend, Stu Laura, suggests that if the military can use computer games to help recruiting, why not the IT profession? Warning: If you can't have a sense of humor about the treachery in your own industry, don't play.
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Global CIO: Analytics Will Take Over Your Company

4/18/2011
Resistance is futile, as fact-based decision-making trumps gut feel.
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Michael Bloomberg And The CIO Hall of Fame

2/28/2011
The success of this former Salomon trader and computer chief is a testament to why IT leaders should be rotated into other business roles
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Global CIO: World Of Warcraft, Not The DoD, Will Drive IT

1/4/2011
Our intrepid CIO, Stu Laura, on why the people who understand things like space age algorithms and voice and facial recognition will be the masters of the future IT universe
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Global CIO: Your Data Is Like Week-Old Flounder

10/1/2010
Our intrepid leader, Stu Laura, takes on those who would preserve every last shred of company information
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Global CIO: Our Technology Is Taking Over

6/7/2010
Yankee Group founder Howard Anderson engages in an awkward conversation with his self-aware electronic devices.
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Global CIO: There's No Money Left

2/23/2010
That sucking sound you hear is the sound of yearly software maintenance fees.
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Global CIO: Our CIO's Performance/Compensation Review

1/11/2010
Welcome, sports fans, to the annual review of Stu Laura, where our hero battles the forces of evil and doom with his boss, CFO Peter Bell.
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