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- June 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Microsoft in 2005
By: David B. Yoffie, Darmesh M Mehta and Rudina I Seseri
Focuses on Microsoft's strategy for sustaining competitive advantage in the global software industry. Also, explores Microsoft's history and its current position, as it tries to diversify its product and service revenue streams.
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Keywords:
Diversification;
Business History;
Marketing Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Applications and Software;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Information Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., Darmesh M Mehta, and Rudina I Seseri. "Microsoft in 2005." Harvard Business School Case 705-505, June 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
US Navy, works as an application research engineer, and then attends Harvard Business School, where he finds that the financial industry is his true calling. So begins his rapid ascent in the corporate world, which includes senior...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
integrity plays in business and provides advice on how to ensure that it is incorporated into the firm. Send information about new alumni-authored books to bulletin@hbs.edu.
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- 2010
- Working Paper
Mixed Source
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes
We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm that sells software and complementary services and a free open source competitor. We examine the firm's choice of business model between the proprietary model (where all software modules are...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Monopoly;
Open Source Distribution;
Quality;
Competition;
Information Technology Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes. "Mixed Source." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-022, September 2009. (Revised October 2010.)
- 1997
- Chapter
Winners and Losers--Industry Structure in the Converging World of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment
By: D. J. Collis, P. W. Bane and S. P. Bradley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a result, little information is...
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- 1993
- Chapter
Global Competition in Technology
By: Stephen P. Bradley, R. L. Nolan and J. A. Hausman
Keywords:
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Competition;
Information Technology;
Technology Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., R. L. Nolan, and J. A. Hausman. "Global Competition in Technology." In Globalization, Technology, and Competition: The Fusion of Computers and Telecommunications in the 1990s, edited by S. P. Bradley, J. A. Hausman, and R. L. Nolan. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993, Korean ed.
- October 1987 (Revised January 1999)
- Case
Microsoft Corporation: The Introduction of Microsoft Works
Microsoft must decide how to design a new software product for global markets, identify the timing for entry into different countries, and position the product around the world.
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Keywords:
Product Positioning;
Applications and Software;
Product Design;
Product Launch;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Kosnik, Thomas J. "Microsoft Corporation: The Introduction of Microsoft Works." Harvard Business School Case 588-028, October 1987. (Revised January 1999.)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
world literature, including Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. In a volatile industry known for the intelligence, passion, and eccentricity of its publishers, Olson emphasizes the importance of face-to-face meetings over...
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- 2008
- Working Paper
The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard
The central role of "platform" products and services in mediating the activities of disaggregated "clusters" or "ecosystems" of firms has been widely recognized. But platforms and the systems in which they are embedded are very diverse. In particular, platforms may...
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Keywords:
Digital Platforms;
Industry Clusters;
Infrastructure;
Information Infrastructure;
Digital Platforms
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and C. Jason Woodard. "The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-034, September 2008.
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
syndrome, manage innovation, and develop action plans to attain — and maintain — industry leadership. From the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series: Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Leadership. In this important collection,...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
themselves. According to Regina Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, those same forces are now at work on the country's largest service industry - health care. In her latest book, Herzlinger...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
innovative tools that help them explore, learn, and create. And teachers can better identify when a student might need a little extra help,” says Sara Kloek, director of education policy at the Software & Information View Details
- June 2015
- Case
Silicon Fen
By: Tom Nicholas, David Chambers and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords:
Information Technology;
Industry Clusters;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Technology Industry;
England;
California
Nicholas, Tom, David Chambers, and Matthew G. Preble. "Silicon Fen." Harvard Business School Case 815-082, June 2015.
- January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Noah Fisher
In May 2014, Bill McDermott will become the sole CEO of SAP AG, the world leader in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) field. The case occurs in January 2014 at SAP's investors meeting, at a time when the company's stock is near record high. A 2010 strategy...
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Keywords:
Cloud Computing;
Platform;
Strategy And Execution;
Strategy And Leadership;
Enterprise Resource Planning;
Software;
Information Technology;
Digital Platforms;
Applications and Software;
Information Technology Industry;
Germany
Lakhani, Karim R., Marco Iansiti, and Noah Fisher. "SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud." Harvard Business School Case 614-052, January 2014. (Revised March 2014.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
coauthored by Steven L. Ossad (MBA ’76) (Taylor Trade Publishing) With a subtitle World War II’s Greatest Forgotten Commander, this is a biography of the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle. Send information...
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- August 1999 (Revised May 2000)
- Case
E Ink
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Susan Archambault
E Ink is a high-technology start-up attempting to revolutionize print communication through electronic ink displays. The founders and top managers of this two-year-old firm are striving to translate a technological breakthrough into a working prototype, move from...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball...
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Keywords:
Andrew Clark;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- February 2007 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Wikipedia (A)
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee
Wikipedia has emerged as a robust model for content production by volunteers working asynchronously on the Internet with a unconventional model for distributed decision making. The "Articles for Deletion" process in Wikipedia provides unique insight into the inner...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
2004. Brailer’s mission is to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014 and to link those records to a national medical data network. “It’s time to put health information technology center stage,” Brailer told some 300...
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