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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
expanded its offering to cover a broad spectrum of Internet and mobile security products. In 2012 the company launched its own Internet search engine called So.com. By August 2013, So.com captured 18% PC market share and had posed a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC...
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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto...
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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
encompass a more active role as an intermediary (like eBay) facilitating transactions; or challenge Microsoft's position on the PC desktop by developing software to compete with Office and Windows. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
useful to predict sales and replenish its inventory for PCs. Buyers monitor the sales of a certain product line soon after it is launched and update their forecasts based on those observations. They expedite orders for PCs that are...
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
point of view of societal welfare) to a Windows monopoly, it is ambiguous whether a duopoly Linux-Windows is better than a Windows monopoly. The basic trade-off is the following: With a duopoly, more individuals and organizations use PCs...
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- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with the escalating content demands from the marketplace and the non-profit OLPC Foundation. It also had to fit the project into its company business model which served global lead View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
student to chief executive officer also makes it difficult for device makers to segment the market as cleanly as, say, PC companies are able to do, DelBene said. "Companies are spending a lot of time trying to figure out where the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
inventory, what capabilities each player brings to the table, and so forth. Raman: Our discussion of technology advancements, of course, must include the enhanced ability to process all of this data. Today's desktop PCs and even laptops...
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by Staff
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
possibility of reversing the launch sequence and going with a "Brazos First" strategy. The case describes the microprocessor industry, its main competitors (AMD and Intel), and the evolving world of PC selling and buying. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
—End-users have no mechanism enabling effective procurement through uniform templates, which can be contextually linked to government authorized schedules. This often causes a nonsensical lengthening of the purchasing cycle whereby most View Details
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by Andrew McAfee
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement actions, inferring SEC capture. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
increase in information technology purchases. Wulf notes that the 1986-1999 time frame was especially significant in terms of corporate technology. The 1990s marked an era when PC prices started falling, when dot-com companies started...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
organization, and the role of the IS manager was to integrate them in support of the business's transaction processes. Then around 1980 we started to see the emergence of the microcomputer; for the next fifteen years or so, DIS reflected how microcomputers and View Details
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by Staff
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
present new evidence that firm PC positively predict CL reviews and substantive characteristics of such reviews, including the number of issues evaluated and the seniority of SEC staff involved. These results, robust to identification...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
addresses a decision to replace salesmen netbook PCs with iPhones, including converting the company's sales and customer applications to the iPhone platform. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911413-PDF-ENG Hikma...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
peripherals. But IBM's major achievement was its mass production and mass marketing of the personal computer, beginning in 1981. In less than a decade, the IBM PC and its clones had conquered world markets. Only Apple was still a...
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by Jim Aisner
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve...
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