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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Under pressure to break-up IBM, Gerstner instead went against the tide of expectation and kept IBM in one piece. He went on to make IBM more competitive by announcing downsizing and a new vision for the... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Ben Schlatka
(electronic materials company)- Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development; Nantero (venture funded nanotechnology startup)- Director of Business Development; IBM Microelectronics (semiconductor company)- Strategic Marketing... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
internally focused manner. Innovation today must be managed as an open system, with a far greater external focus. Q: Which companies today are the best examples of open innovation, and why? A: IBM, Intel, and Procter & Gamble all search externally for useful ideas... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBA Career Office Wins Award
The MBA Career & Professional Develop-ment office has received the 2009 IBM Excellence in Career Services Award. The award “recognizes academic career centers that provide outstanding commitment and partnerships to View Details
- 12 Feb 2020
- News
Culture Shift at Big Blue
Getty Images Getty Images With the news of President and CEO Ginni Rometty’s retirement and the elevation of Arvind Krishna to replace her as chief executive, IBM simultaneously announced that Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) will step up as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
customer-oriented firms such as American Express and RJR Nabisco, Gerstner proceeded to shake up Big Blue's culture, reinventing IBM “from the customer back, not from the company out,” so the firm would become driven by the marketplace.... View Details
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Though Watson had to personally secure a loan to reshape the company’s finances, he turned it around in a matter of years and officially incorporated it as International Business Machines in 1923. Over the next 30 years of Watson’s tenure, View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
of your life.” — Deborah E. Blagg The Watson Dynasty by Richard S. Tedlow (HarperCollins) Love, money, and power make a potent brew, as evidenced by HBS professor Richard Tedlow’s new book, The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM’s Founding... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Lore Harp
company apart from other competitors. Taking the company public in 1981, Harp became one of the first women to head a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s meteoric rise was short-lived as IBM and others eventually... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
data and how they go about monetizing it? Or is it free reign and whatever they don’t capitalize on, someone else quickly will? Shih: I’d be more in the latter camp. I remember working for IBM in August of 1981 when they introduced the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
came from IBM in the early 1960s with the introduction of the System/360, the first modular family of computer systems." And it was modularity, Baldwin and Clark explain, that made all the difference. "Under this approach,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Harreld describe how IBM managed to survive a crisis in the early 1990s and reposition itself to lead the industry. The lesson from IBM is that innovation is not a side business but the very foundation of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
the Intel 8086 to the world’s largest and most sophisticated information processing organization, the International Business Machines Corporation. IBM epitomized the computer industry as it had been for at least two decades: vertically... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2012... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
…and They Will Come
At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a firm he has shaped into a world... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a... View Details
William C. Norris
An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics