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- 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 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
Expose projects to outsiders. If a project isn't moving ahead inside the company, maybe someone outside the company can think of something to do with it. IBM took an approach along these lines with a particular software project that had... 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
- 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
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is conducted. Comparing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
vanguard companies avoid "short- termism" and make choices with an eye on the future. "Management is temporary; returns are cyclical," IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said, explaining to me why he puts so much emphasis on values... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
positive correlation between the number of journal articles published between 1981 and 1997 by semiconductor company researchers and the number of patents held by firms. "It turns out," he said, "that publications by IBM... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
information on FDR’s hidden illnesses and how they affected his leadership. Other Alumni Books Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA 1965) (HarperBusiness) Gerstner, who joined IBM as chairman and CEO in 1993,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
case: http://hbr.org/search/513053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-09 IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept IBM, through its corporate citizenship arm, demonstrated the role of business in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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
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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
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
venture capitalist for Greylock. In 1998, he left to run a portfolio company, iXL, which went public and grew to almost $500 million in revenue. After iXL, he joined Silverpop as its CEO, seeing it grow to nearly $100 million, becoming a global leader in cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
enough credibility with physicians in terms of their health care expertise? IBM: IBM has entered the health care data fray with IBM Watson Health, which is intended to bring together clinical, research, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
care tools in several Ebola-affected West African countries where IBM has introduced education and data-gathering mobile applications to improve prevention and treatment. View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Editor's Letter
The things we choose to save, and display, say something about us. Along with the usual photos of loved ones (husband, daughter, horse), my desk in Teele Hall includes a ceramic bluebird, a train ticket from Sri Lanka, and a vintage Budweiser can discovered during a... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
managers. They quickly understood that world-class institutions can't be built by one person. Business is all about helping people do together what they can't achieve on their own. LR: Since RCA and IBM figure prominently in several of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
She filed away what she learned and took a job working at IBM in downtown New York. “My colleagues were the sons and daughters of firemen, policemen, and this was the first white-collar job in their families,” recalls Burton. “The word... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
Tony Domit, vice president of a network business unit, began developing a method that used off-the-shelf components to perform the Xerox networked printer-controller functions. Domit's solution used an IBM personal computer, some special... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- Profile
Jonathan Evans
From the time Jonathan Evans got his first computer in middle school – an IBM Aptiva complete with a DVD encyclopedia, featuring actor Patrick Stewart in the introductory video – he was hooked on technology. Years later, after graduating... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
business. Christensen cites IBM and Merrill Lynch as examples of companies exposed to disruptive technologies. The disruptive technology for IBM is Dell's use of direct marketing and distribution,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett