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25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

take 1955 (with the IBM 701) as the start date and use eighty years as a technology cycle, 2035 may not be far off the mark for playing much of this out. Even then, the special recombinant nature of this technology makes us uncomfortable... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

business secrets would spill over to its competing line of business. They also feared that Acer could cross-subsidize its own brand with profits from its contract-manufacturing operations and so undercut their prices. In 2000, the strategy blew up when View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

foster competition down the line, as IBM did when it let the IP of essential components slip out of its own hands and into the grasp of Microsoft and Intel. Finding those people who have the will and desire to innovate in your system can... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

the solution. In prior writings, we called this strategy “coring.”5 There are several examples. In order to solve the problem of how to build an IBM-compatible personal computer during the 1980s, which IBM tried to control as a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

humor in the idea of the man they labeled "a dirty Talmud Jew," lodged a protest with the State Department, and refused to participate in the festivities. The IBM is not merely an organization of men; it is an institution that... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

defining the computer industry's products. In large computer systems its most successful competitors were those enterprises that produced and sold IBM-designed "plug-compatible" hardware and "unbundled" software. In personal computers they were... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

internally focused manner. Innovation today must be managed as an open system, with a far greater external focus. Q: Which companies today are the best examples of open innovation, and why? A: IBM, Intel, and Procter & Gamble all search externally for useful ideas... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

students are graduates of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), an innovative six-year public high school program spearheaded by IBM that has improved college completion rates among disadvantaged youth and created a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2012... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/109079-PDF-ENG IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 308-105 Members of IBM's fifth Integration and Values Team... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

essentially the same frequency as they target cash related to the alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel), nor of any other type of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

relationships. In many cases, partnerships are a more appropriate way to grow than M&A. Even a company as large as IBM uses alliances in its PC business, which has been deemed unprofitable but still important given its links with... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

data and how they go about monetizing it? Or is it free reign and whatever they don’t capitalize on, someone else quickly will? Shih: I’d be more in the latter camp. I remember working for IBM in August of 1981 when they introduced the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

came from IBM in the early 1960s with the introduction of the System/360, the first modular family of computer systems." And it was modularity, Baldwin and Clark explain, that made all the difference. "Under this approach,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

customers who told him that their key area of pain was the difficulty of integrating the "islands of automation" throughout their global companies. Gerstner, himself a former IBM customer, immediately recognized the opportunity.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

heart of the enterprise. And that's what I found. For companies like IBM and Procter & Gamble, this is definitely at the heart of the enterprise. The Japanese company Omron has sustained itself since its founding on principles and on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

vendors like IBM and Oracle on the open source community. Why are proprietary firms diving into open source? The answer (it's good for business) is hardly shocking. But the line from investing in OSS to profiting from a product is not as... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

enough credibility with physicians in terms of their health care expertise? IBM: IBM has entered the health care data fray with IBM Watson Health, which is intended to bring together clinical, research, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

case: http://hbr.org/search/513053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-09 IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept IBM, through its corporate citizenship arm, demonstrated the role of business in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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