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- April 1995 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (A)
By: Marco Iansiti and Ellen Stein
Based on a Silicon Valley company that has developed the capability to compete in a rapidly growing, highly turbulent environment. This capability hinges on its flexible and rapid development process, which the case characterizes in detail. Focuses on the development... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Information Infrastructure; Product Launch; Managerial Roles; Expansion; Design; Applications and Software; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; California
Iansiti, Marco, and Ellen Stein. "Silicon Graphics, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 695-061, April 1995. (Revised December 1997.)
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
will drive its adoption of Web services: the movement from proprietary to more commonly used technologies; a shift from mechanical systems to those driven by computer connections; and the development of cars that are always "on the... View Details
- March 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Microsoft.NET
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Set in the summer of 2000, following the unveiling of Microsoft's .NET initiative to the public. Three of the key figures in .NET's development are considering the next steps they would have to take to keep the initiative moving forward. Specifically, the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Policy; Business Model; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Microsoft.NET." Harvard Business School Case 602-086, March 2002. (Revised August 2002.)
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
in the kinds of management challenges faced by professionals in fields as distinct as, for example, law and computer software design? Lorsch: Program participants represent the full range of professional... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
first, it has to undo the common perception that the product is an intimidating machine for guys. As part of its strategy, in July 2003, Sony introduced a PlayStation product in Europe called EyeToy: Play—a video camera (the EyeToy) and game View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- March 2017 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
VMware and the Public Cloud
By: Raffaella Sadun and Christine Snively
In 2015, VMware, a pioneer in server and network virtualization and a member of parent company EMC’s “federation” of companies, had set its sights on becoming a leading public cloud provider. Two years prior, VMware first entered the public cloud market with its vCloud... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
Sadun, Raffaella, and Christine Snively. "VMware and the Public Cloud." Harvard Business School Case 717-480, March 2017. (Revised February 2018.)
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools like an infrared eye tracker to measure eye movements and special vision software that analyzes facial expressions to gauge emotional responses. Experiments in the field are gaining popularity too, covering a wide spectrum of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
disrupted. At a plenary session at the HBS Global Alumni Conference 2001, Christensen expanded on the work highlighted in his 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Disruptive technologies such as the personal View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
of a mini refrigerator and stacked on top of other line equipment. Better yet, this tighter integration would greatly reduce the manufacturing costs. The second technology was Windows NT. Teradyne's test systems included various software... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next e-Wave." The current shift on the... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the discounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
developing products created by hard-to-find customer-centered software engineers. But now Microsoft's proposed settlement of its dispute with an even bigger sumo—government—would involve giving computers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
auctions have bids in the last 10 minutes, 37 percent in the last minute, and 12 percent in the last 10 seconds. Antiques were more heavily sniped than computers, but there was lots of sniping for computers too. There was much less late... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
iPhoto, etc., and become more of a service and software digital home application company. The strategy going forward is going to be more like a consumer electronics company, making hardware and software, rather than being a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
published? Kash Rangan: A lot has changed since the research was first published over ten years ago. With the proliferation of computing power and availability of powerful software, much of what we called the Order Management Cycle has... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although the hot-spot phenomenon is big... View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
nature of the innovation problem at hand, the motivation of the external developers, and the firm's platform business model. Depending on these factors, the outside innovation might be fed and managed either by creating collaborative communities (think of the... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
number of niche firms for long, sustained periods of time. In the software industry, a large number of niche players have endured for many years, constantly generating a variety of product innovations. Despite the contraction caused by... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien