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  • 14 Aug 2009
  • News

Netscape Founder Backs New Browser

  • October 1999
  • Article

What Netscape Learned from Cross-platform Software Development

By: M. A. Cusumano and D. B. Yoffie
Keywords: Applications and Software; Research and Development; Learning; Web Services Industry
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Cusumano, M. A., and D. B. Yoffie. "What Netscape Learned from Cross-platform Software Development." Communications of the ACM 42, no. 10 (October 1999): 72–78.
  • spring 1999
  • Article

Building a Company on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape

By: D. B. Yoffie and M. A. Cusumano
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Business Ventures; Web Services Industry
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Yoffie, D. B., and M. A. Cusumano. "Building a Company on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape." California Management Review 41, no. 3 (spring 1999): 8–28.
  • 1998
  • Book

Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft

By: M. A. Cusumano and D. B. Yoffie
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competitive Strategy
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Cusumano, M. A., and D. B. Yoffie. Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft. New York: Free Press, 1998.
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From Netscape to eHarmony: The High Risks and Big Rewards of Platform Markets

By: Dylan B. Minor
Keywords: Leadership; Service Delivery; Mobile Technology; Economics
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Minor, Dylan B. "From Netscape to eHarmony: The High Risks and Big Rewards of Platform Markets." Strategy & Business, no. 73 (Winter 2013).
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Books: Judo Strategy

competitors, argue HBS professor David Yoffie and research associate Mary Kwak in Judo Strategy: Turning Your Competitors’ Strength to Your Advantage. “We picked up on this idea while conducting interviews at Netscape in the summer of... View Details
Keywords: Microsoft; Netscape; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • April 1996 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Times Mirror Company PEPS Proposal Review

By: Peter Tufano
Times Mirror Co. (TMC) owns a substantial block of Netscape common stock purchased prior to Netscape's IPO, on which it has substantial unrealized gains. TMC is restricted from selling the stock in a public offering and is therefore considering a proposal by Morgan... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Stocks; Taxation; Corporate Finance; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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Tufano, Peter, and Cameron Poetzscher. "Times Mirror Company PEPS Proposal Review." Harvard Business School Case 296-089, April 1996. (Revised January 2006.)
  • August 1999 (Revised September 1999)
  • Case

Double Dealmaking in the Browser Wars (A)

By: James K. Sebenius
Recounts two complex negotiations in which Netscape and Microsoft compete to win a browser contract with AOL--then later with KPMG. After reviewing the web and browser sectors, this case recounts AOL's dramatic negotiations with Netscape and with Microsoft over which... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Web; Web Services Industry
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Sebenius, James K. "Double Dealmaking in the Browser Wars (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-050, August 1999. (Revised September 1999.)
  • June 1998 (Revised January 2001)
  • Case

Browser Wars, 1994-1998, The

By: David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak
Analyzes the competition between Netscape and Microsoft in the market for Web browsers and related products. Despite its first mover advantage, Netscape sees its market share fall once Microsoft becomes "hard-core" about the Internet. By the spring of 1998, the future... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Competition; Supply and Industry; Information Technology Industry
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Yoffie, David B., and Mary Kwak. "Browser Wars, 1994-1998, The." Harvard Business School Case 798-094, June 1998. (Revised January 2001.)
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war,"... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers

Keywords: by Timothy F. Bresnahan & Pai-Ling Yin; Technology; Computer
  • 08 Nov 2010
  • News

Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn

  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

The Internet is changing the nature of competition in virtually every industry. And according to HBS professor David Yoffie, competing in the Internet age is more than just a matter of having to do everything faster. In their book, Competing on Internet Time: Lessons... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
  • March 2000
  • Exercise

Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise

By: Stefan H. Thomke
This team exercise allows students to experience some of the dynamics of developing products in the fast-paced Internet environment and was inspired by the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft. Designed to be taught in a single class session, the exercise... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Decisions; Management Practices and Processes; Integration; Organizations; Competition
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Thomke, Stefan H. "Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 600-121, March 2000.
  • July 2006 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)

Explores the Mozilla Foundation's decisions leading up to the launch of Firefox 1.0, including its default browser, managing corporate partnerships, managing product development, and moving toward a revenue-based model. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Social Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; United States
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O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Nikhil Raj. "The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 907-015, July 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
  • 18 Mar 2014
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Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2008 (Revised August 2009)
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VMware, Inc., 2008

By: David B. Yoffie, Andrei Hagiu and Michael Slind
Paul Maritz took the helm of VMware in July 2008, just as the company confronted a radically new competitive environment. Since its founding in 1998, VMware had been the leading provider of virtualization software. Now it faced the kind of threat that every software... View Details
Keywords: History; Digital Platforms; Competition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Applications and Software; Business Strategy
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Yoffie, David B., Andrei Hagiu, and Michael Slind. "VMware, Inc., 2008." Harvard Business School Case 709-435, September 2008. (Revised August 2009.)
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Internet boom, companies armed with nothing more than a PowerPoint presentation of a lousy idea could secure tens of millions of dollars—which sometimes gave them enough time to figure out a viable business plan through trial and error. Eventually successful companies... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

(such as Microsoft) can easily crush you if you compete with them directly. Recommendations Again, know what you're buying. Netscape and a host of other high-tech companies bought second-rate technology again and again. This doesn't lead... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

may be a great stepping stone to future venture capital. The open source environment made it possible, for instance, for the founders of Sun, Netscape and Red Hat, to show other people what they were made of. Companies Jump Aboard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
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