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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
major developments: Ericsson opened its first 5G-enabled smart factory in the United States, Apple unveiled its first 5G-enabled phone, and carriers like AT&T and Verizon have been preparing their customers for major transition. So has... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
taken seriously." Nevertheless, he decided that his new software program was better suited to PC use. Before long, Bricklin and Frankston had launched their first product: VisiCalc, the first commercially available electronic spreadsheet. Designed to run on View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer market share, can View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
on any block, in any neighborhood, anywhere in the city. How do you relax? Traveling, especially wilderness and adventure travel. I unwind by planning my next trip, and love having a list of upcoming flights in my queue. What are you reading or binge-watching? Slow... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer environment that produced HBS's first... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
Sixteen years ago, Donna L. Dubinsky (MBA '81) was a second-year HBS student who, having "fallen in love" with her Apple computer, decided she wanted to work for the company. "I had no technical background or training," Dubinsky recalls.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
photo courtesy of Charlie Andersen Charlie Andersen (MBA 2014) grew up on a 200-acre organic family farm west of Philadelphia that produced everything from apples and blueberries to sweet corn. Andersen absolutely loved it—for the most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
them twenty years ago. If you look at the typical board of a major public company, you will find that only one or maybe two directors are members of management, and everybody else is “independent.” To argue against independent directors is like arguing against... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
companies. We're talking Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mary Barra of General Motors and Larry Fink of BlackRock and Brian Moynihan from Bank of America and Tim Cook from Apple and Robert Smith from Vista Equity Partners. And the list goes on and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Boston's Route 128 and California's Silicon Valley, across the nation, and eventually around the world. Some of the firms they backed include Apple Computer, Biogen, Digital Equipment Corp., Fairchild Semiconductor, Genentech, Intel,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
convinced that every banker would want this technology. It ran on an Apple II, and I decided to try to get a job at Apple that day. Ever since then I have focused on getting computers to more people, making... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Crown Business) Professor Moon examines what it means for a company to offer something that is fundamentally, comprehensively different. She identifies iconoclastic companies like View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
misconduct due to a few bad apples (wayward individuals), or is malfeasance enabled by the barrel itself (business’s framework of governance, practice, and rules)? The answer, Clark asserted, is that bad View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
would slowly migrate to the small and medium-sized businesses. Suddenly, Apple comes in with Apple Pay, and you have all these new players that are blocking Square from moving up. And it is only a matter of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
in January, Kao compared the innovation models of Apple (edited, intuitive, top-down) and Google (data-driven, reactive, bottom-up), noting that they highlighted “the archetypical tension in the creative process,” the New York Times... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
creating marketing efficiencies. Although the digital revolution promised to democratize content production and distribution, the reality is that blockbuster strategies are more applicable and entrenched than ever before. Citing companies as varied as View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pinball Wizard
Richard Simon (MBA '66) is making Manhattan his playground - in this case, an indoor replica of the Big Apple as it appeared in the 1930s, the New York Times reported (August 12, 1999, and September 23, 1999). Called Broadway City,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
in the number of “functional” managers for crowding in the C-suite. Is J.C. Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing? The stuffy department store chain has become emboldened under new CEO Ron Johnson (MBA 1984) with plans for an innovative store upgrade, simplified... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music downloads offer two contrasting approaches to delivering digital... View Details