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Scott G. McNealy
McLeod presided over a period of infrastructure investment and development for Moore. During his tenure, Moore became one of the premier providers of business forms and printing services in the United States and Canada. When he stepped down as CEO, Moore’s assets,... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Carol Bartz
Bartz was Chairman, CEO and President of Autodesk, one of the world’s largest suppliers of computer-aided design (CAD) automation software. Bartz raised manufacturing standards at Autodesk, built a strong sales force, and invested heavily in research to dramatically... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
David Duffield
After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative software for managing human resource functions became a phenomenal... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Benjamin Abrams
Along with his brother, Abrams developed the first radio-phonograph combination, which was introduced in 1924. Emerson went on to launch a number of additional “firsts” including a clock radio, a self-powered portable radio, and a midget transistor radio. By 1965, the... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Frank T. Cary
Following the legacies of Watson Sr. and Watson Jr., who ran IBM for almost 60 years, was no easy feat, but Cary more than proved his mettle. Under his direction, IBM expanded into new markets outside its traditional mainframe business into personal computers, graphic... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
stocks and mutual funds. An "investment bar" offered personal computers where the customer could do her banking, check her investment portfolio, or just surf the Internet. There were comfortable couches, where she could relax,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk titled The Dawning of Artificial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
internet was in the computer lab,” Marwell says, “and it was really hard for teachers to integrate technology into their curriculums.” While the American economy was being transformed by 21st-century high-speed internet, Wi-Fi, and a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
grew up in Montreal, where his father was a professor at McGill University and where he earned an undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering. After graduating, he went to work for Monitor Company in Toronto, as a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce the University’s environmental... View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
versus the inside. Marketing expertise depends on customer insights. These insights cannot be gleaned from looking at market research data on a computer screen. Just like politics, all marketing is retail. The customer votes every day at... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
become the dominant player on the Web, Microsoft announced that it would follow Netscape's lead in supporting all popular Internet protocols (i.e., the rules computers use to communicate with one another on the Internet), even when they... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
times when they are less fatigued or have available time. And all respondents seem to compartmentalize expectations of how long various tasks should take, clearly differentiating the wait for a computer response from that of filling a gas... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
Idachaba-Obaro was born in the US to Nigerian parents. She obtained a Computer Science degree and worked as an analyst with ExxonMobil before deciding to quit her job and return to Nigeria in 2009. She describes how her decision came from... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
costs and retail prices down, prompting global production to shift to economies with lower input costs. The manufacture of personal computer components is now concentrated in Asia and manufacturers are constantly seeking to drive costs... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
contrarian approach? Will this come back to bite them? A: Let me first make a clarification. Apple's computer business is definitely multi-sided, just like Microsoft's, except Microsoft Windows has three sides (end-users, application... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details
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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Montreal-Vancouver railroad in 1885, close-ups of early computing machinery, cyanotypes of European and U.S. bridges, images of workers in South African gold mines, a series of photos taken of supermarkets around the world circa early... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
their research? “The approaches are largely: cover your rear end,” observes Harmeling. And, say the Equitas partners, other models are largely a few hours’ worth of training made up of PowerPoint presentations, computer quizzes, and... View Details