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- 2016
- Working Paper
The Reference Wars: Encyclopedia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence
By: Shane Greenstein
The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft's Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed sale...
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Keywords:
Market Entry and Exit;
Service Operations;
Emerging Markets;
Applications and Software;
Books;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Greenstein, Shane. "The Reference Wars: Encyclopedia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence." Working Paper, April 2016.
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
2008. Since winning the Alumni New Venture Contest, which came with $25,000 and a mentoring opportunity with HBS faculty, Sundaram has grown from a staff of four to 16, and, after a stumble with outsourcing the prototype fabrication, has opened its first factory and...
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- 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
- 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.)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
a set of entrepreneurial principles individuals can employ to transform their competitive arenas. Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories, edited by Udayan Gupta, provides a revealing history of the venture capital industry as...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
IT Management from 1960 to 2000 "Today¹s managers are grappling with the turbulent dynamics of the Information Age," says Richard L. Nolan, the School's William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology. The author of a new...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- July 1999 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
Yahoo!: Business on Internet Time
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Jay R. Girotto
In the wake of major competitive moves, CEO Tim Koogle and his senior team at Yahoo!, an Internet portal, must decide whether and how to adjust their strategy. Following deals between AOL and Netscape, Excite and @Home, Infoseek and Disney, and Snap and NBS, Yahoo!...
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Keywords:
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Industry Structures;
Internet and the Web;
Risk Management;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Rivkin, Jan W., and Jay R. Girotto. "Yahoo!: Business on Internet Time." Harvard Business School Case 700-013, July 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
- December 2003
- Teaching Note
Capital One Financial Corporation (TN)
By: Bharat N. Anand and Michael G. Rukstad
Teaching Note to (9-700-124).
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- January 1989 (Revised October 1991)
- Case
Center for Machine Intelligence: Computer Support for Cooperative Work
Applegate, Lynda M. "Center for Machine Intelligence: Computer Support for Cooperative Work." Harvard Business School Case 189-135, January 1989. (Revised October 1991.)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
living in an HBS case study over the last 15 years, as the book industry has been transforming itself into a more digital industry. As recently as five years ago, some of the crystal ball folks said, “Oh, physical books are going to go...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price." "Very smart people looked at Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor...
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- July 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Qihoo
By: Feng Zhu
Qihoo, one of the largest Internet companies in China today, was founded in 2005. The company started its business by offering a security software product, and quickly dominated the market in China after its unusual move of giving its product away for free in 2009....
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
sentence. It makes rereads enjoyable; there’s always more to explore and contemplate. The book that helped me read something like Simulacra and Simulation is How to Read a Book. It made me realize that reading is an intensely informative...
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- March 2008
- Article
Radically Simple IT
Many managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are...
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- June 2007
- Article
What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland
By: Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu
Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections are...
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Patents;
Information Technology;
Information Technology Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Feng Zhu. "What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland." International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, no. 3 (June 2007): 511–529. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11168.)
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI By Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley, Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business Review Press The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how View Details