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- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
the growth of the tech centers was actually coming from the big population centers.” The rise of tech hubs What’s more, that growth isn’t stoked by long-standing companies shifting locations, like IBM did, but rather by new businesses that rise to the top via... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
two contrasting approaches to delivering digital content to users. Can Apple and the recording industry seriously compete against free? Do iTunes and p2p help each other in some ways? Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and collaborator... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
sumo learning judo—following through fast, pushing when pulled, and leveraging Apple Computer's (educational) partners to Microsoft's long-term competitive advantage? In the wake of the Microsoft settlement, what does the future hold for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
in the country when they were in their infancy-including Apple and Intel. It's important that we figure out how to do more of this, and SBIC may be a good model to build on." Traditional Bank Lending Is Still Critical, But A Gap... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
At the beginning of the year, corporate skullduggery seemed limited to one or two egregious examples. A couple of bad apples won't spoil the whole bunch, we said to ourselves. But in the past several months, rottenness may have achieved a... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
look at many of the critical on-the-ground issues involved with innovative real estate development. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210070-PDF-ENG Apple Inc. in 2010 David B. Yoffie and Renee KimHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2542242 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 215-037 Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance and is under pressure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
simulation program that enables a classroom full of students to participate in situations that demand the sort of real-time decisions made in real-world markets. Simulations mirror historical (but disguised) examples, such as Apple... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
as data companies. Partnerships could alleviate this concern. For example, Philips recently aligned itself with Salesforce.com, a leader in customer relationship management approaches that could be applied to patients. Consumer tech companies: Consumer tech companies... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Microsoft, Intel, and Apple in the new book, Strategy Rules. Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do (32,083) While women and men believe they are equally able to attain high-level leadership positions, men want that power more than... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
along with a camera and other features. By September 2007, just 74 days after the June launch of the iPhone, Apple and its mobile carrier partner AT&T Mobility had sold one million units. When Apple CEO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
why high tech industries find themselves vulnerable to disruption today reflect thoughts of those who have studied the phenomenon. Philippe Gouamba said, "It is more important for Apple to out-do Samsung (and vice-versa) than it is... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
majority chose to gamble the two dollars and to risk taking another card in Blackjack, regardless of which piece of Apple equipment they were using. However, device size substantially affected whether the participant left the room after... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
Exxon’s institutional investors would be eligible to submit shareholder proposals under the current law, only 7 (at the time of this writing) would meet the 1 percent threshold. In high tech, the thresholds grow even higher: Owning 1 percent of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
School Case 111-114 Inconsistencies in accounting treatment across countries are a major obstacle for global equity investment. Adoption of a single accounting standard (IFRS) has been received with much excitement, where apples to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
fashion, Stella McCartney shows that a luxury brand can be sustainable. Professor Anat Keinan discusses her case on the fashion icon. Behind Apple's Tax Situation, an Unprecedented Financial Policy Mihir Desai The European Union recently hit View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
by using my "apples and barrel" metaphor. We have seen many attempts to explain what happened, and they fall into two broad classes. One puts primary responsibility on a few bad apples and sees the solution as catching them,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
than those who dress conventionally. “You're saying, 'I'm so autonomous and successful that I can afford to dress in a nonconforming way'” Think Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his hoodie, or the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in black... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Silicon Valley firms, such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel Corporation, Apple Computer, Inc., Scientific Data Systems, and Teledyne Incorporated. He was the first venture capitalist to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. Rock was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne