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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
at MCI, and circled the globe as a senior executive for IBM before launching a tech start-up, sold in October 2007. Along the way, he discovered a love for horses and foxhunting, although he didn't love how horses beat up the grass and...
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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
- 14 Feb 2017
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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
- 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
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, a Bain imprint—all of which influence...
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by Mallory Stark
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
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 litigation against firms. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism: forum...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
day in a pink, short-sleeved shirt. This was the era of “the IBM man” (yes, all men at the School then), and everyone else was dressed in the uniform of the day: white shirt, skinny black tie, dark suit. “And I found my way—you will too.”...
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Dean
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
strategist—translates purpose into practice, he or she must remain open to the possibility that the purpose itself may need to change. Lou Gerstner did this in the 1990s, when he decided that IBM would evolve to focus on applying...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
was sort of a COBOL pun. COBOL is the IBM computing language at the time for mainframe computers. And there weren’t COBOL degrees, because it was a new language. And there was this huge demand. Now, my dad had never worked in technology....
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
that only large enterprises could attempt. IBM, for instance, has created a nonprofit partnership, World Community Grid, through which any organization or individual can donate unused computing power to research projects and see what is being done with the donation in...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
$100 million a year, and that he wanted a speedy resolution. “Speedy” turned out to be the better part of a decade. For much of the 1970s, McArthur fielded an all-star team (including future Secretary of State Warren Christopher and future View Details
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
people who really understand what's going on, even sometimes quite low level if there are some technical issues, are in the same room with very senior people who are going to have to make the judgements on risk. Joe Bower: The case example I used was the View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel....
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
time, so that the people who really understand what's going on, even sometimes quite low level if there are some technical issues, are in the same room with very senior people who are going to have to make the judgements on risk. Joe Bower: The case example I used was...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details