March 2001 (Revised July 2001)
Background Note
HBS Case Collection

Making Sense of the Internet Business Landscape

Format:Print
| Pages:17

Abstract

Discusses the shift from the industrial to the information economy from a technological, business, and societal perspective. Compares the changes we are experiencing today with the changes experienced during the shift from the agrarian to the industrial age at the turn of the century.

Keywords

Transition; Economy; Information; Perspective; Society; Internet

Citation

Applegate, Lynda M. "Making Sense of the Internet Business Landscape." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-407, March 2001. (Revised July 2001.)