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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
peripherals. But IBM's major achievement was its mass production and mass marketing of the personal computer, beginning in 1981. In less than a decade, the IBM PC and its clones had conquered world markets. Only Apple was still a...
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by Jim Aisner
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
addresses a decision to replace salesmen netbook PCs with iPhones, including converting the company's sales and customer applications to the iPhone platform. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911413-PDF-ENG Hikma...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
worldwide PC market still languished below 5%. Growth in iPod sales was slowing down. iPhone faced increasing competition in the smartphone industry. And would Apple's latest creation, the iPad, take the company to the next level?...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
point of view of societal welfare) to a Windows monopoly, it is ambiguous whether a duopoly Linux-Windows is better than a Windows monopoly. The basic trade-off is the following: With a duopoly, more individuals and organizations use PCs...
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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
possibility of reversing the launch sequence and going with a "Brazos First" strategy. The case describes the microprocessor industry, its main competitors (AMD and Intel), and the evolving world of PC selling and buying. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
office." Further evidence of Twitter mania in Japan: The country holds the world record for tweets per second—33,388—recorded on New Year's Day 2013. But it's not just Japan at the cutting edge: As the world shifts from PC to mobile, Asia...
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- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
base of PC operating systems, it had captured 20% of the server market by the end of 2005 and was quickly becoming a formidable alternative for productivity programs with OpenOffice. Linux's "business model" to compete against...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
needs to decide whether to continue efforts to convince one of the big three console makers (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) to enable the EPOC on their platform or to settle for the PC gaming market. Alternatively, the company could have chosen a...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608053 Dell Computers (B): The Transition Harvard Business School Supplement 607-081 The case presents the outcome of the (A) case and explores challenges in the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
of Apple's iPad made clear the need to transition his company to a new cloud-computing era. But the company's roots in the manufacture of Windows-powered desktop and notebook PCs bounded the creativity of his design and engineering teams....
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
sufficient condition. Beyond network effects, successful platforms make it hard for their users to multihome. Multihome means users can participate on multiple platforms at the same time. In the old days, it was hard to use both a Windows View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-042 Lenovo to Buy IBM PC: Integration Challenges In December 2004, Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced its purchase of IBM’s View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
was "The PC is it" in the late 1980s and that's what made Intel, Intel. Get everybody behind it. Another part of Intel culture: We argue specifically over principles or over proposals or over issues, not over the people who...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
on two of the most important historical episodes in the history of the computing industry, the introduction of the PC and of the browser, to develop a third hypothesis. Both IBM and Microsoft, having been extremely successful in an old...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
consumer, and then over time, I think, began to increasingly lean into the business side. How did that process unfold?Houston: Well, we followed our customers. I mean, a lot of people realized that Dropbox is a great way to get things between their home View Details
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