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    Stephen P. Bradley

    Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; high technology; internet; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications
    • 11 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 11

      PublicationsBlock-by-Blockbuster Innovation Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 5 (May 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/05/column-block-by-blockbuster-innovation/ar/1/ Between... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
    This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco... View Details
    Keywords: Cisco; Internet and the Web; Governance Controls; Ethics; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China
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      Robert J. Dolan

      Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

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      Hiring Organizations

      Holding HgCapital Historic New England HongShan HouseAccount HSP - Henkel Search Partners Hudson Hill Capital Humana Hunter Douglas, Inc. I I Have This Friend IBM IDinsight IFC - International Finance Corporation IFC Asset Management... View Details
      • October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
      • Case

      Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)

      By: Willy C. Shih
      This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
      Keywords: Analytics; Big Data; Business Analytics; Product Development Strategy; Machine Learning; Machine Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Product Development; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology Industry; United States
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      • 17 Oct 2023
      • HBS Case

      With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

      monitored and optimally maintained. Amazon Web Services and IBM are some of the leaders in the platform-as-a-service (PasS) market. To be clear, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all model when it comes to subscription-based revenue streams,... View Details
      Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

        Patent Trolls

        We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and support small inventors.... View Details

        • 09 Feb 2011
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

        Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul
        • January 2008
        • Article

        Putting Leadership Back into Strategy

        By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
        In recent decades an infusion of economics has lent the study of strategy much needed theory and empirical evidence. Strategy consultants, armed with frameworks and techniques, have stepped forward to help managers analyze their industries and position their companies... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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        Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

        middle-market leveraged buyouts in the United States and Europe. His previous work experience includes roles at Credit Suisse as well as IBM Corporation. Taylor is based in London and holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Queen's... View Details
        • 12 Jan 2018
        • News

        The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

        • December 2008
        • Article

        Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?

        By: Roberto Verganti and Gary P. Pisano
        Nowadays, virtually no companies innovate alone. Firms team up with a variety of partners, in a wide number of ways, to create new technologies, products, and services. But what is the best way to leverage the power of outsiders? To help executives answer that... View Details
        Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy
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        • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
        • Case

        Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

        By: Willy Shih
        This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
        Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
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        • 01 Feb 2022
        • Book

        Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

        runs), and scaling (the development of a full-fledged new product or service). "Becoming a corporate explorer is not a route to a safe or easy career." The authors share the stories of influential explorers, such as retired IBM manager... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
        • 09 Mar 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

        Early iterations of IBM's ViaVoice software package featured IBM's "ideal" customer on the front: an administrative assistant sitting in front of her computer, speaking into a headset. It is easy to see why IBM targeted such... View Details
        Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
        • 01 Jun 2024
        • News

        Quantum Leap

        “This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
        Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
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        Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

        Chicago Press, 2021. IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center , Harvard Business School case, 2020. With Mel Martin and Sarkis Agaian. How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network ,... View Details
        • 19 Apr 2004
        • Research & Ideas

        Birth of the American Salesman

        Bockhoff of National Automatic Tool also worked at NCR, as did Joseph E. Rodgers of Addressograph-Multigraph, Henry Theobold of Toledo Scale, William Sherman of Standard Register, and Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines. In a very direct way, the... View Details
        Keywords: by Laura Linard
        • 30 Mar 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        The Future of IT Consulting

        taking shape. Until recently, there had been an IBM de facto industry standard for the operating system, and a de facto standard in the use of COBOL for applications development. By the late 1990's, new applications development had become... View Details
        Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting