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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/109079-PDF-ENG IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 308-105 Members of IBM's fifth Integration and Values Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
exceeding our expectations," says Cavanagh. "They covered a wide range of projects, from workplace safety and training initiatives, to family-friendly programs, to various partnerships with cities and states." After reviewing the submissions, a panel of judges selected... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
students are graduates of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), an innovative six-year public high school program spearheaded by IBM that has improved college completion rates among disadvantaged youth and created a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Career Coach
Michele Chambliss
Silicon Valley startup, Michele has likely coached someone in similar circumstances to success. And looks forward to doing the same with you! Work Experience: Corporate Venture Incubation (Mach49), Venture-Backed-Startup Advisor (through Greylock Partners), MAC... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
essentially the same frequency as they target cash related to the alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel), nor of any other type of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
Andrew S. Grove
While CEO of Intel, Grove delivered a ten-year annual return of 44%. Under Grove, Intel became more valuable than IBM with a worth of $115 billion and annual profits of $5.1 billion. Grove’s Intel controlled 90% of the world market for PC... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
relationships. In many cases, partnerships are a more appropriate way to grow than M&A. Even a company as large as IBM uses alliances in its PC business, which has been deemed unprofitable but still important given its links with... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Career Makeover
July 8, 2004). Davis first worked at IBM before moving on to Digital. While there, she enrolled in night classes in interior decorating, a longtime interest. Through her membership in a design association, she was discovered by HGTV,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Students Top Marketing Contest
In January, Melissa Lau, Yanlin Liu, and Deena Malkina (all HBS ’08) took home top honors in Rice University’s seventh annual Marketing Case competition, besting student teams from nine other business schools, including Kellogg, Stanford, and Sloan. With the teams... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
customers who told him that their key area of pain was the difficulty of integrating the "islands of automation" throughout their global companies. Gerstner, himself a former IBM customer, immediately recognized the opportunity.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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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
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
(in contrast to IBM and Univac mainframes) for business applications. "We felt what we were doing was important and we felt we had to show the world that our computers were practical, inexpensive and reliable," Olsen wrote, "And so we... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Stacey A. Lawson (MBA '96) came to HBS with an idea brewing. The former IBM engineer wondered why there were no digital libraries for users of computer-aided design (CAD). Despite the pervasiveness of technology throughout industry, she... View Details
Leading with the Long View
business politics, and consider how the markets might respond. But when you read a case on IBM in Nazi Germany, you’re forced to consider broader questions that go beyond business implications. There’s a lot more gray area, hindsight... 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
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
million grant to scale a successful medical knowledge sharing and collaborative practice platform pioneered by Project Echo in 2003 to expand specialty care access and quality at the centers. Long involved in community initiatives, IBM... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
heart of the enterprise. And that's what I found. For companies like IBM and Procter & Gamble, this is definitely at the heart of the enterprise. The Japanese company Omron has sustained itself since its founding on principles and on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- Profile
John Bracaglia
technology," says John. Keynote speakers included David Ferrucci, the lead inventor behind IBM Watson, and Max Tegmark, an M.I.T. professor of physics and founder of the Future of Life Institute, an organization that, John says,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
vendors like IBM and Oracle on the open source community. Why are proprietary firms diving into open source? The answer (it's good for business) is hardly shocking. But the line from investing in OSS to profiting from a product is not as... View Details