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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
age after World War II, the firm supported established companies like IBM (International Business Machines) as well as emerging enterprises such as DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), which produced a second generation of less expensive,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
achievement. In the 1960s, however, it began to self-destruct by diversifying, first in attempting to compete with IBM in the production of mainframes and then by becoming a conglomerate, purchasing, among others, Hertz Rent A Car,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
summer, and in the fall she will be working in Boston as a strategy consultant for IBM Strategy and Change. “I think I will always be involved in economic development in some way,” she remarks, crediting her mother as a major source of... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
to the specific content of their cultures, shaping them to inculcate specific behaviors relevant to strategic execution. Eager to support goals like innovation, quality, growth, and excellence in customer service, companies like Southwest and View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Download Data Set in Excel IBM: Countries of Operation J. Connolly, History of Computing in Europe, 1967 IBM Annual Reports, various years Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries , various editions OneSource Map created... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Perhaps no technology company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. have achieved this success during times of incredible technological transformation, usually... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)
IBM and my mom was a schoolteacher. I went to UVA for undergrad with a full scholarship and I studied Mechanical Engineering. How would you describe your financial situation coming into HBS? I was a mechanical engineer before HBS, making... View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
open source development process. For example, IBM released half a million lines of its Cloudscape program, a simple database that resides inside a software application instead of as a full-fledged database program, to the Apache Software... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
typically ranged between 20 percent and 40 percent of the combined market cap of software providers. This is a fraction of the more than 80 percent of total market capitalization of the much larger ecosystem of computer software, components, systems, and services that... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory for the Navy's airplanes. About... View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
ideas, experiment with ideation tools, and explore different ideation approaches, such as alternate worlds and brainstorming. Highlights Ideation and Cognitive Fixedness Opportunities in 2 by 2 Frameworks Innovation at IBM Show Hide... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
opportunity to earn their own way. It’s about the distribution of dignity. IBM Executive Chairman Ginni Rometty, one of OneTen’s founders and board co-chair, explains that the goal of OneTen is not to simply move people into any job. “We... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
with Wen Wen. 2015 Ryan W. Buell : Received the 2015 Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community. Kris Johnson Ferreira : Finalist for the 2015 IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award from the Institute for... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
shifted from centuries-old practice of handwritten ledgers to a digital spreadsheet on a personal computer. Which leads to the second lesson, which is that “a killer app doesn’t guarantee enduring success.” When Mitch Kapor left the company and built Lotus 1-2-3 for... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
profit is by selling complementary goods and services. For example, IBM sells consulting services and proprietary software that are complementary to the OS software it develops, and Sun sells complementary hardware such as servers.... View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
wish to imply that reputation does not matter in developed economies, including in facilitating longevity. There is little doubt that reputation, broadly defined, is part of the explanation why US corporations such as Citibank, GE, Ford, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Case Protagonists at HBS
a particular decision making process) is often a highlight of the HBS curriculum. Elliott Davis is one of the many students who has benefited from such insights. Elliott came to HBS after four years at IBM doing social business and... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
firm calls an industry "unprofitable" while another firm calls that market "important," asymmetries are at work. For example, in the 1990s, Cisco raced to capture more of the networking equipment market while IBM... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
to break up illustrious companies like Standard Oil and AT&T to reduce their market power and thereby encourage competition. While not successful in similar efforts to prosecute IBM and Microsoft, the Government’s action may well have... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
performance and career outcomes,” the paper says. Will companies embrace remote work long term? Despite the seismic shift many companies made to remote work during the pandemic, some business leaders remain concerned about adopting the model permanently. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert