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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
Business is about making money, not measuring macho. The scrap heap of business disasters is littered with managers whose ego drive overwhelmed good business sense. Founder and former chief executive Ray Noorda had a wonderful business in network View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
Fred M. Gibbons
Gibbons was one of the early pioneers in the software development industry. While working at Hewlett-Packard, he developed the Pfs:file software suite which enabled Apple View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
An Wang
Labs’ sales exploded. Later products included several lines of sophisticated mini computers and such revolutionary word processing software as the Office Information Systems (OIS) series. By the end of... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
says. “We want to make it easier for software engineers to use these machines and to get good results from them, even when they’re still in this early stage.” The goal is to help R&D departments get a taste of quantum value while reducing... View Details
William H. Gates III
to IBM’s. In 1987, Gates revolutionized the computer market again with the introduction of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface, which made the IBM PC and compatibles user-friendly. With $16.7 billion in revenues in 1998,... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Raymond J. Noorda
Upon his arrival at Novell, Noorda realized that the future of computer networking lay in the software and not the hardware. Novell’s product, Netware, dominated the network operating system market in the... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone, for example, replaced by a... View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
about capturing value through intellectual property regimes, standards, and technology platforms. Digital convergence takes center stage in the final module. Convergence examples, suddenly, are plentiful. Computing and entertainment have... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
Scott Cook Even as a kid, Scott Cook was interested in figuring out how computers could help ordinary people. In high school, he sketched a tablet-style computer that could read handwriting and calculate... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
have similarly discovered over the past 25 years. By supporting Lang's creativity and unconventional thinking, high-tech startups and established computer firms alike have found their assets turning to gold under her fingers. "I've always... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details
Martha R. Ingram
After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
can actually use." Paul Hamilton-Smith opined that software companies "mostly subsist from their renewal revenue stream. That stream is generated by 'new and improved' software versions." And... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Given the demands of his HBS studies, he wisely teamed up with former MIT classmate Bob Frankston, who did much of the programming work on the project. Together, they founded Software Arts, Inc., early in 1979. "Those were the days of the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- Web
Tulsi Patel | MBA
Tulsi Patel Computer Science, Secondary in Economics Lowell 2023 Cohort 4 Technology is a powerful medium for driving meaningful social change. As a Tech Innovation Fellow, I'm excited to join and contribute to a community of... View Details
Scott D. Cook
Though he was not the first individual to launch a personal finance software company, Cook was the most successful. His focus on easy of use and customer service helped to develop Quicken into one of the most successful View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
David Duffield
After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative software for managing human resource... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the... View Details