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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
where the future lay. From the first, with no particular basis for the assertion, Watson endlessly repeated to his employees that "IBM is not merely an organization of men; it is an institution that will go on forever." Despite some pretty sharp ups and...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when...
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- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Established enterprises have customer relationships, channels to market, technical capabilities, critical data and information about consumers, along with a myriad other factors that will increase the impact of any innovation they come up with. Apple, Microsoft,...
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- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that...
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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
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
services, what benefits have they realized? Do they gain competitive advantage? A: It sure looks like Amazon and eBay are strengthening their positions and continuing to grow by using Web services well. I studied an effort by IBM and its...
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by Sara Grant
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
outcome measurement, reimbursement, and strategic alliances. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710424-PDF-ENG Low-k Dielectrics at IBM Willy Shih and Giovanni CarraroHarvard Business School Case 610-023 Innovations...
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
example of IBM reducing electricity consumption significantly between 1990 and 2012 and saving $477 million in the process. The role of academics in this process, she said, is the traditional one: to think clearly, see what is true, not...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
things. And I've heard all that schlock about how Lou Gerstner was a food company CEO when he took over and saved IBM. But I don't buy it. That was a different company, in a different situation, in a different time. IBM was in the...
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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes how View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated...
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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
IBM Business Consulting Services, and CNBC Ventures—ranged from the humble to the almost-conceivably futuristic. By 2008, every person at a similar conference would be enjoying a device with a continuous wireless connection, offered Eric...
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- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
familiar faces. It's true that sometimes going outside is the right way to go. The strategic transformation at IBM required someone like Lou Gerstner to challenge the complacency. The Home Depot board felt justified in turning to outside...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
organization. The conversation has to be structured. When people hear "honest," they tend to think "spontaneous." But public conversations in organizations are rarely spontaneous, as Lou Gerstner found out when he took charge at View Details
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
advertisements to building their own outlets and content. Kraft Foods, for example, is now one of the largest publishers of food-related materials. IBM is launching thought leadership communities. PepsiCo uses social networks to reach...
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by Staff
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
additional millions of poor people to buy in. As prices have fallen, Asian brands such as Asus and Acer of Taiwan have gained share while IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo. “Critics of marketing tend to overestimate the level of...
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