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- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
multiple generations of technology. Microsoft and IBM perhaps? Yet no one is pointing to them as bastions of novel and breakthrough ideas! It's easy to point to specific design decisions as the cause of Blackberry's demise. They ignored...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Think Locally, Act Globally
IBM for IT and Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, and Huawei for network. If we do well, then they do well. It’s that simple.” This low-cost model helps Bharti reduce operating costs and pass savings on to customers. With aggressive rollout and...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
along with the plan. It worked with IBM to solidify blockchain’s functionality and security and found a willing, technologically progressive client in the Swiss private equity firm Unigestion. The final piece was bringing in similarly...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2001
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Books
challengers. Based on a study of twelve radical innovation projects, the book reveals the patterns through which game-changing innovation occurs in established companies — including General Electric and IBM — and outlines a paradigm for...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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New Releases
organizations as large as IBM and Texas Instruments could acknowledge the need for new processes. People are interested in this work because it provides models for R&D as well examples of change." Technology Integration is required...
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Robert Binstock
- 01 Jan 2011
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Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
and then returned to Turkey, where his enormous impact in business is matched by his commitment to improving access to quality education. One of Turkey's most successful business leaders, Özyeğin is a self-made man. After earning his MBA and working at View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is conducted. Comparing...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
software to protect customers' computer files from the threatened disaster. Such "utilities software" is the brainchild of Peter Norton (13th OPM), the founder of Peter Norton Computing Inc., which merged in 1990 with Symantec Corp. Originally a computer programmer,...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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One-on-One with Tom Oreck
New Orleans, but more importantly, there was no access and no housing. Within five days of the storm, we were operating in an IBM business recovery center in Dallas, where we sent about 120 employees and their families. We had 100...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
the Time & Life Building, she was given what were then state-of-the-art tools: an adding machine and an IBM Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker and employer of more than 38,000 people, Fields was named 2001 Asian Business Innovator of the Year (by CNBC Asia Pacific and TNT, a business logistics company).. A New York and New Jersey native, Fields worked for View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
between the software giant and its closest challenger, IBM, while younger alumni put Microsoft well ahead of Big Blue.) It was IBM that first gave business "the ability to process information that has transformed the world," one...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
not have been easy to predict. Henry Ford, for example, started two companies that failed before he established the Ford Motor Company in 1903. He was 40 years old at the time. Watson was also 40 when he went to CTR in 1914; that company didn't become View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
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California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
opened the retreat with his vision of “A World Without Roads.” Then branding expert and author of The Kim Kardashian Principle, Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2001) talked about “Reaching Generation Alpha” with his “six steps to make your ideas outperform in the 21st century.”...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
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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
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, and we were among...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Bulletin hadn't heard from Mark Smith for several years, but when his section secretary finally tracked him down, the news was all good. Those who know the New Jersey native may remember he joined IBM in Denver after graduation and...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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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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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
for being the top field-hockey school in the country. Its premed program was also highly respected, and Fisher, who was majoring in biophysics, realized she had to make a choice. She chose science but ultimately deferred her medical school acceptance, instead taking a...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days
Media, Entertainment, & Leisure When it comes to assessing change over the past 25 years, perhaps the best place to start is technology. When Moore began her job in the finance department at Time magazine, she was set up with the state-of-the-art tools of the day: an...
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