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January 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

NSK Software Technologies Ltd.

By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey M. Anapolsky

Discusses the efforts of three Israeli software engineers' efforts to bring a network security software product to market. The firm needs an investment to complete programming and start marketing. View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Financing and Loans; Product Development; Information Technology Industry; Israel

May 1995 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Microsoft/Intuit

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Microsoft Corp. proposes to acquire Intuit Corp. Examines the strategic fit and the price proposed to complete the transaction. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Applications and Software; Acquisition; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; United States

September 1991 (Revised May 1994)
Case

Microsoft's Networking Strategy

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Network Effects; Networks; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

very hard...inside! As you may recall from my letter in the October issue of the Bulletin, this year the Board is tackling three important areas of concern to alumni: global alumni issues, information technology, and alumni career... View Details

2009
Other Unpublished Work

The Kindle: Igniting the Book Business

By: Peter Olson and Bharat Anand

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry

April 2011 (Revised April 2014)
Case

ASAHI Net: Bringing Innovation to Education

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

ASAHI Net developed a cloud-based platform for higher education institutions to use in Japan and was wondering if that platform could be accepted in the U.S. as well. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Technology Platform; Education Industry; Education Industry; Japan; United States

1993
Chapter

Global Competition in Technology

By: Stephen P. Bradley, R. L. Nolan and J. A. Hausman

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Competition; Information Technology; Technology Industry

01 Jun 1997
News

New Releases

satisfaction, and vice versa) constitute a service profit chain that can form the foundation for strategic service vision and help guide managers in their operations and marketing. The authors explain how any service industry firm can... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called Microsoft, Cash was closing in on his... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

March 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Supplement

ZBJ: Building a Global Outsourcing Platform for Knowledge Workers (B)

By: Feng Zhu, Weiru Chen and Shirley Sun

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Outsourcing; Disintermediation; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Global Strategy; Information Technology Industry; China

May 2009 (Revised July 2011)
Case

Daqi

By: Robert C. Pozen, Richard Franklyn Armbrust and Ziquan Zhang

In 2008, Daqi was one of the largest Internet portals for user-generated content and the leading word-of-mouth marketing provider in China. Grace Zhou, Daqi's CEO, was contemplating the risks and benefits of expanding Daqi's services into three new content areas—news,... View Details

Keywords: Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Internet; Information Industry; China

January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
Case

SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Noah Fisher

In May 2014, Bill McDermott will become the sole CEO of SAP AG, the world leader in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) field. The case occurs in January 2014 at SAP's investors meeting, at a time when the company's stock is near record high. A 2010 strategy... View Details

Keywords: Cloud Computing; Platform; Strategy And Execution; Strategy And Leadership; Enterprise Resource Planning; Software; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; Germany

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when medical professionals need to pull that View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

01 Mar 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

ago, to research the “new, but untested, financial system,” unregulated as all get-out, filled with “trust me” and “I don’t really understand the math.” Light and his experts seem to understand it now. What new information did they get... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Dec 2012
News

Wang Papers to HBS

Important corporate records from Wang Laboratories and personal papers of the company's late founder and CEO, Dr. An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology invented by Dr. Wang helped... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2009
News

More Alumni Books

Growing Up with Harry: Stories of Character by Sherman Baldwin (MBA ’97) (iUniverse) How You( ) Are Like Shampoo for Job Seekers: The Proven Personal Branding System to Help You Succeed in Any Interview and Secure the Job of Your Dreams by Brenda Bence (MBA ’91)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

May 2001 (Revised December 2001)
Case

Cisco Systems: Building Leading Internet Capabilities

By: Richard L. Nolan and Christina L. Darwall

Cisco has invested in building a leading IT, Internet-based infrastructure. This case describes Cisco's latest efforts to broaden Internet capabilities in the company from 30% to 60% penetration. The strategy is intended to sustain Cisco's double-digit revenue growth... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry