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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
better would fit this same profile. Now say you are a top executive of IBM or AT&T in the late 1990s. IBM has been famous in the minds of consumers for its hardware, from the big 360s of the 1960s to its PCs of the 1980s, and all the... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
to PCs and hence to the Net." Thus, Azuela expects the bulk of Internet growth will occur in the B2B sector and wireless applications. Auction house DeRemate.com, currently a leader in the region's consumer Internet sector, has a growth... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
all ages were convincingly behind Gates, albeit sometimes grudgingly ("I pick Bill Gates, not necessarily from a moral character or leadership standpoint, but from an 'influential' product penetration standpoint"). More typical were responses such as "Gates made the... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
peripherals. But IBM's major achievement was its mass production and mass marketing of the personal computer, beginning in 1981. In less than a decade, the IBM PC and its clones had conquered world markets. Only Apple was still a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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