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- 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
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212006-PDF-ENG IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design Willy Shih, Kamen Bliznashki, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 611-055 When IBM...
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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
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco in 1991 and became CEO in 1995. The company expanded rapidly thereafter, acquiring many firms and growing...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
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: targeting of firms that have reduced ability to defend...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the CSC program, and 100 of IBM's...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
to be more sustainable. IBM has put an enormous amount of time and energy behind its "A Smarter Planet" initiative. And Unilever's leadership team has announced publically that it plans to double the size of the company—a 40...
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by Staff
- 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
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Business School Supplement 311-031 Sam Palmisano became CEO of IBM in 2002. He dramatically energized the organization through portfolio changes and a values driven approach to managing the company. The "Day 1" case describes...
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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
- 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 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
analytic engines to more aspects of what workers are doing, slicing the data ever finer — IBM modeling individual employees, retailers using so-called human-capital management systems to time even the smallest task and to schedule people...
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- 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
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
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
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
change. Encouraging self-organizing networks to let them investigate whatever they want to through company channels can produce new business ideas, as IBM found in the early days of virtualization. When talented employees leave to start...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to 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...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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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