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- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities Authors:Charles A. O'Reilly, III, Michael L. Tushman, and J. Bruce Harreld Publication:California Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract The empirical evidence is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
organization. The conversation has to be structured. When people hear "honest," they tend to think "spontaneous." But public conversations in organizations are rarely spontaneous, as Lou Gerstner found out when he took charge at View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
the growth of the tech centers was actually coming from the big population centers.” The rise of tech hubs What’s more, that growth isn’t stoked by long-standing companies shifting locations, like IBM did, but rather by new businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
services, what benefits have they realized? Do they gain competitive advantage? A: It sure looks like Amazon and eBay are strengthening their positions and continuing to grow by using Web services well. I studied an effort by IBM and its... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
outcome measurement, reimbursement, and strategic alliances. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710424-PDF-ENG Low-k Dielectrics at IBM Willy Shih and Giovanni CarraroHarvard Business School Case 610-023 Innovations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
advertisements to building their own outlets and content. Kraft Foods, for example, is now one of the largest publishers of food-related materials. IBM is launching thought leadership communities. PepsiCo uses social networks to reach... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
additional millions of poor people to buy in. As prices have fallen, Asian brands such as Asus and Acer of Taiwan have gained share while IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo. “Critics of marketing tend to overestimate the level of... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
if so, where are we on the transition timeline? A: System problems require a systemic solution. You need what the great [HBS professor] Al Chandler called "the visible hand of managerial capitalism." When this kind of change happened in personal computers, View Details
- 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... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes how View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
organizational culture and identify its barriers to decision making? A: Indecision can cripple an organization, and it comes in several different forms. Lou Gerstner coined the phrase "culture of no" to describe the situation he inherited at View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
co-op program for potential MBA students? How about greater sharing of teaching or administrative talent, similar to what IBM and other organizations have done in the past—in this case, sabbaticals with the potential of career change?... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
entities (e.g., IBM and Intel), nor of any other type of litigation against firms. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms, that has reduced the ability of firms to defend... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
strengths and weaknesses. Which should he recommend to the partners for additional resources and what does a recommendation mean for his career? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808125 Thomas J. Watson, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
example of IBM reducing electricity consumption significantly between 1990 and 2012 and saving $477 million in the process. The role of academics in this process, she said, is the traditional one: to think clearly, see what is true, not... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
things. And I've heard all that schlock about how Lou Gerstner was a food company CEO when he took over and saved IBM. But I don't buy it. That was a different company, in a different situation, in a different time. IBM was in the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
IBM Business Consulting Services, and CNBC Ventures—ranged from the humble to the almost-conceivably futuristic. By 2008, every person at a similar conference would be enjoying a device with a continuous wireless connection, offered Eric... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
familiar faces. It's true that sometimes going outside is the right way to go. The strategic transformation at IBM required someone like Lou Gerstner to challenge the complacency. The Home Depot board felt justified in turning to outside... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
of disruption, not the initiators of it. But properly educated, the leaders of the existing systems can take the lead in disrupting themselves—because while leaders instinctively view disruption as a threat, it always proves to be an extraordinary growth opportunity.... View Details