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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
industries that are going through a sea change. He recalled how a two-dollar ATM fee he once paid at an airport spurred him to start his own ATM network featuring out-of-town banks. Other ventures he helped create were a credit card... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
broadcasters pay a premium for licensing rights. In terms of affiliate fees, nine out of ten of the most expensive cable networks per viewer carry high-engagement sports content, with ESPN, the NFL Network, and the MLB View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Hill, is someone who possesses exemplary leadership skills. As a computer science specialist who was drawn to business in part because it allowed her to put her quantitative background to practical use, Swan and her handpicked team paved... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
known as “the Library,” where it is organized into an alternative environment. The Library was formerly the Library of Congress, but it long since has evolved from information in books to complex computer files. "Mark Zuckerberg reminded... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
There is also a network effect at work in that everyone on a project needs to use the tool for it to generate the most value to any one user or to the system. I would study what Slack did and get the tool into the hands of groups of... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
techniques myself that I grasped how biases can get trained into a neural network unintentionally. Being able to recognize these biases and observe how they take form helps to not only understand the problem but also brainstorm probable... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the “winner-take-all” dynamics in a category as... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
with the directions to our place." Then he paused and said, "That sounds pretty old-fashioned, doesn't it?" It's possible that, along with me, he is beginning to feel out of date. The irony is that he is the retired CEO of one of the largest companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
Respond: Capturing the Value of Network Era Technologies, a book that documents the technology-aided shift many companies are currently undertaking from a "make-and-sell" mentality to one in which they are able to "sense and respond" to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Ziff-Davis and is now the ninth largest network on the Internet. The tales of these two firms (along with that of Donna Dubinsky, a member of the HBS Class of 1981 and CEO of Handspring, the maker of Visor personal organizers) are the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
startup financing. To be sure, venture capital offers many benefits, including the networks and insights that experienced investors bring to the table. But all of that comes at a price. Most obviously, a founder who takes venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
including emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil. This list will continue to grow. A by-product of the intertwining of globalization and technology enabled networks is that events are no longer isolated, the impact of which was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Cloud Computing Authors:Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles Publication:European Business Review (January 2012) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=5748 Assent-maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
visibility, to a network of peers. Many of them felt isolated.” Amadio sensed these challenges were not unique to neuroscience startups, and he began looking at the consumer software sector to see how innovation there seemed to happen so... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of). Whether this is called... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
with one another to innovate? To answer this question, the authors compiled a dataset identifying all coauthorship relationships of U.S. patent inventors from 1975 through 1999. That dataset revealed that the social network of innovators... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
When most MBA students attend HBS, there is a general feeling that the contract they sign is to spend 18 months getting world-class exposure to cases and principles of business and management and then leave with a license to practice business, including the tools and... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
argue that the evolving global network structure affects firms' propensity to form bridging ties by shaping the structural opportunities for bridging. We test our theory using the network of partnership ties... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne