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- January 1981
- Teaching Note
Datavision (A) and (B), Teaching Note
By: Michael Beer
Teaching Note for (9-495-046) and (9-495-047). View Details
Keywords: Computer Industry
- December 1998
- Supplement
John Trani on Mac Direct (Video(
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Keywords: Computer Industry
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "John Trani on Mac Direct (Video(." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 399-512, December 1998.
- August 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Network Computer, Inc.
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kirk A. Goldman
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Networks; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Kirk A. Goldman. "Network Computer, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 399-026, August 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- November 1980
- Background Note
Overview of IBM Operating Systems
Cash, James I., Jr. "Overview of IBM Operating Systems." Harvard Business School Background Note 181-044, November 1980.
- October 1979 (Revised January 1983)
- Case
IBM Corp.: The Bubble-Memory Incident
Focuses on the role of IBM's Corporate Management Committee (CMC) in resolving conflicts between the line and staff elements of IBM's organization. The issue for discussion is not a substantive technological question but a question of the proper role for the CMC in... View Details
Vancil, Richard F. "IBM Corp.: The Bubble-Memory Incident." Harvard Business School Case 180-042, October 1979. (Revised January 1983.)
- January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
- Case
Lexon Corp. (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine
Lexon Corp. lawyers must decide how to respond to two lawsuits challenging the company's interception of electronic mail on privacy grounds. They must also formulate a company policy on e-mail. One suit was filed by an employee dismissed from her job after asking that... View Details
Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Computer Industry; California
Paine, Lynn S. "Lexon Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 392-072, January 1992. (Revised August 1992.)
- June 2001
- Article
Playing by the Rules: How Intel Avoids Antitrust Litigation
By: David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak
Yoffie, David B., and Mary Kwak. "Playing by the Rules: How Intel Avoids Antitrust Litigation." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 6 (June 2001): 119–122. (Reprint R0106H.)
H. Ross Perot
A shrewd businessman, Perot built EDS into a large competitor in the computer industry, winning big data processing contracts from companies like Frito Lay and from various government agencies. Perot was also well known for his strong... View Details
Keywords: Services
Eugene R. Olson
Olson continued Deluxe’s market dominance in check printing while laying the foundation for its electronic diversification and expansion. He oversaw the acquisition of businesses that produce computer forms and emboss and encode plastic... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
In March, Louis Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM's CEO since 1993, stepped down after achieving a remarkable turnaround at Big Blue. Gerstner, who lacked any previous experience in the computer industry, frequently defied conventional management... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
them realize that dream,” she says. A volunteer network sustains the San Francisco–based organization, which has helped facilitate peaceful relations in India, Pakistan, Colombia, and Rwanda. In India, for example, the Dreamfly built a high school View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
and enhance technical fluency? SK: It’s a major competitive issue for businesses. Do they have a trained workforce? Do they have an empowered workforce? In some of the training, do you even have basic computer skills? Some very good... View Details
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Tips for Working Remotely | Information Technology
see if your router is updated and change its password as you would your own computer. Shared Computers at Home Many of us share home computers with family. If you plan on setting up your HBS mail on a shared... View Details
Angle of Insight
Prior to entering HBS, I studied computer engineering as an undergraduate. I took a couple of classes about African American history in the United States, but beyond that I did not study history. My primary reason for coming to HBS was to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Les Vadasz (107th AMP)
first time, our technology started to reach mere mortals," he says with a laugh. Today, with 50,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $20.8 billion in 1996, Intel - in addition to providing the architecture and brains of most of the world's View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WesTrek: Students Find Options in Bay Area
and a host of firms in between. While most of the companies fell into the category of high tech-new media, communications, and computer software and hardware-others represented more traditional business activities, such as consulting,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BioMine (now BlueOak), which won the 2011 HBS Alumni New Venture Competition. The competition's judges were struck by the company's smart business plan and how it addressed a very great need. According to the EPA, in 2007 an estimated 29.9 million desktop View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
internal intranet, "thereby allowing customers to serve themselves through their own computers within their own organizations." Nolan also points to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's strategy of holding View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 14 Jun 2022
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Virtual Event
Join us for a virtual event with program faculty, Admissions staff, students and alumni to learn more about Harvard's MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program. Prospective students must have an undergraduate degree in engineering, computer... View Details