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- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
applicant. Gene Amdahl, who had been the chief designer of IBM's 704 and System 360 and 370 that dominated world markets, left IBM, hoping to start his own company. Unable to raise $40 million to fund his...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word
uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P. Becker was spurred to write it when he realized the bond...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Buy the Book
more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand.” The case also highlights the spread of the blockbuster phenomenon. Ten years ago, a book was considered a success if it sold 200,000 copies. Today, the bar has been raised to 1.5 million copies, thanks in part...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
services. The first really magnificent building was 998 Fifth Avenue, built in the early 1900s. It was known as simply 998. Everybody knew what it was. The same was true of 740 Park Avenue and 834 Fifth Avenue—where Rockefellers did live. Both buildings were View Details
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April White
- 01 Feb 1999
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New Releases
Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft has been a focal point in the landmark antitrust suit brought by the Department of Justice against Microsoft. At issue in the case is whether Microsoft used unfair and illegal tactics to View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2011
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Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t solve the challenges of global...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Reinventing Work and Life by Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991) (Palgrave MacMillan) Rossetti introduces women to a new way of thinking about the events that shape their adult lives—like marriage, job loss, or empty nests—and offers a step-by-step toolkit View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market
polyglot country. He raised $1 million, primarily from American investors he knew personally. In March 2011, he opened a small clinic (two chairs) in Delhi to serve as a pilot project. He set out to vertically integrate all aspects of the business, from recruiting and...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
functioning — or not functioning — outside one’s country. Those differences spark insights. Every organization has its own particular needs and patient population, emphasizes Richard Bohmer. As a result, a dominant model of organizational...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective
upside down and might end up destroying it altogether. Some people even predicted that one huge trust would come to dominate the entire American economy. This may seem funny now, but in the context of the times it did not. At the turn of...
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Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
vicissitudes in history, as with mercantilism—the idea that a state would be better off by making its neighbor poorer—which dominated in Europe for centuries and led to many wars. And then globalization increased in the early 1900s until...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
fail just when the region needed it most. The advent of coal mining more than a century ago (the first rail shipment of eastern Kentucky coal rolled out of Harlan County in 1911) transformed a sparsely populated rural area dominated by...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Case Study: Confidence Builder
differentiate the Confi program—most other prevention programs are designed to meet compliance standards, not foster conversation—but the marketplace is dominated by a few big companies. Schools pay about $1...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
and entrepreneurial skills, Mayor Bloomberg, like his counterparts in other cities, has drawn up a plan to make his city greener. With his PlaNYC, supported by extensive tracking software designed to ensure and monitor efficiencies,...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
When Donna Dubinsky joined Palm Computing in 1992, the eight-person start-up was one of several companies developing a personal digital assistant. Under her leadership, Palm introduced the first successful PDA, creating a multi-billion dollar market it then View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
my life. Joking aside, getting great press or opening a large account are the entrepreneurial highs that keep us going. The most challenging part of the business is managing inventory. It is easy to be aspirational and to design the next...
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- 19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap
names to make a long-promised future a reality “This is is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
production. Most of that market, says Shen—who oversaw the acquisition of Swedish carmaker Volvo by the Chinese auto giant Geely—is dominated by low-speed vehicles that possess even more limited utility than American compliance cars....
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
teaching them to memorize information,” says Moynihan. “We’re not saying ABCs and 1-2-3s aren’t important, but we think that playful learning and other important nonacademic developmental skills are not being valued appropriately.” This all plays out when LEGO View Details