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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
worldwide PC market still languished below 5%. Growth in iPod sales was slowing down. iPhone faced increasing competition in the smartphone industry. And would Apple's latest creation, the iPad, take the company to the next level?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S. private equity at executive search... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608053 Dell Computers (B): The Transition Harvard Business School Supplement 607-081 The case presents the outcome of the (A) case and explores challenges in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
top PC game League of Legends, considers its growth strategy as it moves into a new campus in Los Angeles. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-098 Terrapin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
addresses a decision to replace salesmen netbook PCs with iPhones, including converting the company's sales and customer applications to the iPhone platform. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911413-PDF-ENG Hikma... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
encompass a more active role as an intermediary (like eBay) facilitating transactions; or challenge Microsoft's position on the PC desktop by developing software to compete with Office and Windows. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
pretty typical these days, and there was malware on his computer that had gotten to him via a phishing attack. Phishing: 99% of all the problems start with you or me, the carbon pieces of this equation, making a mistake. The malware hopped from his View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
was "The PC is it" in the late 1980s and that's what made Intel, Intel. Get everybody behind it. Another part of Intel culture: We argue specifically over principles or over proposals or over issues, not over the people who... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
base of PC operating systems, it had captured 20% of the server market by the end of 2005 and was quickly becoming a formidable alternative for productivity programs with OpenOffice. Linux's "business model" to compete against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
point of view of societal welfare) to a Windows monopoly, it is ambiguous whether a duopoly Linux-Windows is better than a Windows monopoly. The basic trade-off is the following: With a duopoly, more individuals and organizations use PCs... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
needs to decide whether to continue efforts to convince one of the big three console makers (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) to enable the EPOC on their platform or to settle for the PC gaming market. Alternatively, the company could have chosen a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
activity pales in comparison to what's happening today on the Internet," says Sahlman. "Whereas in the early days of the microprocessor, for example, it was expensive and complicated to buy computers, develop software, and break into the distribution channel, today... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
of Apple's iPad made clear the need to transition his company to a new cloud-computing era. But the company's roots in the manufacture of Windows-powered desktop and notebook PCs bounded the creativity of his design and engineering teams.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
possibility of reversing the launch sequence and going with a "Brazos First" strategy. The case describes the microprocessor industry, its main competitors (AMD and Intel), and the evolving world of PC selling and buying. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
office." Further evidence of Twitter mania in Japan: The country holds the world record for tweets per second—33,388—recorded on New Year's Day 2013. But it's not just Japan at the cutting edge: As the world shifts from PC to mobile, Asia... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-042 Lenovo to Buy IBM PC: Integration Challenges In December 2004, Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced its purchase of IBM’s View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
on two of the most important historical episodes in the history of the computing industry, the introduction of the PC and of the browser, to develop a third hypothesis. Both IBM and Microsoft, having been extremely successful in an old... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace