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- 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 Mar 2008
- News
Good Luck Charm
Far from the Great White Way, the Big Apple also shines brightly, in the neighborhood arts-and-culture scene that thrives throughout the city’s boroughs. Those lively goings-on are often made possible through the good work of Lisa Quiroz... 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 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
leftover whipped cream I’d made for an apple pie—so I put a little in my iced coffee. Now every morning I say, ‘It’s a pandemic, I can have whipped cream in my coffee.’ ” In the queue: From Scratch, based on a memoir by Tembi Locke with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
said. Apple’s deal with Microsoft marked a big step in its campaign to compete with BlackBerry in the smartphone sector — the Canadian company holds 41 percent of U.S. market share to iPhone’s 28 percent. Even as Apple seeks to broaden... View Details
- 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 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
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
architecture. They were locked into their old architecture as competitors like Apple built a device plus a third party app model that brought a much broader and appealing range of capabilities to users. By the time BlackBerry started... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
The November issue of Fast Company has a profile of Ron Johnson (MBA 1984)—former Apple retail guru and JC Penney CEO. Johnson’s now at the helm of a consumer electronics startup, Enjoy, that focuses on personal service interactions with... 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 Dec 2009
- News
Rolling on the River
New England is known for more than its apples and pumpkins. In early October, a bumper crop of over 2,000 alumni and guests popped up on the HBS campus to attend reunion celebrations for the MBA Classes of 1949, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
The Atlantic Finds a New Home
(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) On Friday, David Bradley (MBA 1977) announced that he would be selling the Atlantic magazine to Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In a... 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 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
put it mildly, this was an overly rich valuation—Parker’s entire investment up to that point had been an Apple II and 10 used diskettes. With Parker’s enthusiastic assent, Sahlman used the TDC business plan as the focus of his very first... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China produces 75 percent of the world’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
earning a $15,000 runner-up prize. Shortly thereafter, the three founded Sonation and renamed the product Cadenza. Chao and her cofounders met with Apple last fall and are focused on developing an iPad and iPhone app for Cadenza, the... View Details