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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
second full-color cover donned the announcement that in 1964 the School became the proud owner of an IBM 1401 computer. During the 1970s, Bulletin articles reported the automation of Baker Library's holdings, the inclusion of cases on...
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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
applying to HBS, he worked at DuPont, served as a lieutenant in the US Army, briefly attended law school at Howard University, and worked at an IBM subsidiary. WILLIS: I walked into my first class at HBS, and I was the only black in one...
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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
entities (e.g., IBM and Intel), nor of any other type of litigation against firms. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism: targeting of firms that have reduced ability to defend themselves, repeated assertions of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
Cisco, and Timberland. These companies find that their values motivate employees, get them goodwill in communities, and help them develop new products and services. IBM in particular gets new technologies out of every engagement it has...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707419 Lenovo: Building a Global Brand Harvard Business School Case 507-014 Announced in December 2004, the $1.75 billion acquisition of IBM's PC division by Lenovo, China's largest PC maker, made headlines...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Perspective Leading Proactive Punctuated Change By: Tushman, Michael, Charles O'Reilly, and Bruce Harreld Abstract—This chapter focuses on leading proactive punctuated change. Based on the institutional and organizational change literatures and our extended involvement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Cases & Course MaterialsLeading by Values: Sam Palmisano and IBM William W. GeorgeHarvard Business School Case 411-097 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411097-PDF-ENG...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
and IBM tested such a concept in the early 1990s but terminated the project after failing to receive commitments from major record labels and retail franchisees. Perhaps more immediately on the minds of record executives is how to use...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
hope of change; examples include Coca-Cola in Venezuela, Intel in Costa Rica, and Land O'Lakes International, Cisco, BP, and IBM in many countries. These are the kinds of initiatives that the WDC would undertake and encourage. With...
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by George C. Lodge
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
edge of the most dramatic changes in our history. After earning an engineering degree, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, America ’s first line of defense during the Cold War against Soviet ambitions. He joined View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
balance. The last thing you want to do is foster competition down the line, as IBM did when it let the IP of essential components slip out of its own hands and into the grasp of Microsoft and Intel. Finding those people who have the will...
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- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half decades. The open architecture...
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
essentially the same frequency as they target cash related to the alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel), nor of any other type of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
given the dynamism and complexity of the global economy? Take the CEO of IBM who now heads a company of 400,000 full time employees and I suspect as many contract employees all around the world. How can we expect him to set direction and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
generally and their rights and responsibilities to the global community. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311137-PDF-ENG Building Watson: It's Not so Elementary My Dear! Willy ShihHarvard Business School Case 612-017 This case is set inside...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
the solution. In prior writings, we called this strategy “coring.”5 There are several examples. In order to solve the problem of how to build an IBM-compatible personal computer during the 1980s, which IBM tried to control as a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
access to more than thirty time-sharing terminals for use in course preparation. As computer use in the business world expanded, in 1983 the School began an experiment in conjunction with IBM to see how the use of personal computers could...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig