Filter Results:
(474)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(474)
- News (125)
- Research (289)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (11)
- Faculty Publications (173)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(474)
- News (125)
- Research (289)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (11)
- Faculty Publications (173)
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
developed countries—can be conducted more efficiently and effectively from an Indian research center. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708482 Radical Collaboration: IBM Microelectronics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
services, what benefits have they realized? Do they gain competitive advantage? A: It sure looks like Amazon and eBay are strengthening their positions and continuing to grow by using Web services well. I studied an effort by IBM and its... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
saved money by saving energy or reducing waste. For example, IBM reduced its electricity consumption by 6.4 billion kilowatt-hours between 1990 and 2013, during which time it saved $513 million through energy conservation alone, according... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
challengers. Based on a study of twelve radical innovation projects, the book reveals the patterns through which game-changing innovation occurs in established companies — including General Electric and IBM — and outlines a paradigm for... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
if so, where are we on the transition timeline? A: System problems require a systemic solution. You need what the great [HBS professor] Al Chandler called "the visible hand of managerial capitalism." When this kind of change happened in personal computers, View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
the Time & Life Building, she was given what were then state-of-the-art tools: an adding machine and an IBM Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
outcome measurement, reimbursement, and strategic alliances. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710424-PDF-ENG Low-k Dielectrics at IBM Willy Shih and Giovanni CarraroHarvard Business School Case 610-023 Innovations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
opened the retreat with his vision of “A World Without Roads.” Then branding expert and author of The Kim Kardashian Principle, Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2001) talked about “Reaching Generation Alpha” with his “six steps to make your ideas outperform in the 21st century.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
Business School Case 316-143 Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016 CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM acquired... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
and some of my other writings have described those. Companies like IBM have dedicated people working on their language strategy, and part of the reason is that they have 420,000 employees, representing 184 languages and 96 nationalities... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
between the software giant and its closest challenger, IBM, while younger alumni put Microsoft well ahead of Big Blue.) It was IBM that first gave business "the ability to process information that has transformed the world," one... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
example of IBM reducing electricity consumption significantly between 1990 and 2012 and saving $477 million in the process. The role of academics in this process, she said, is the traditional one: to think clearly, see what is true, not... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
things. And I've heard all that schlock about how Lou Gerstner was a food company CEO when he took over and saved IBM. But I don't buy it. That was a different company, in a different situation, in a different time. IBM was in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker and employer of more than 38,000 people, Fields was named 2001 Asian Business Innovator of the Year (by CNBC Asia Pacific and TNT, a business logistics company).. A New York and New Jersey native, Fields worked for View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes how View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
communities globally at GE Money; at IBM he helped to develop the company’s corporate citizenship strategy and launched a leadership program for school administrators in partnership with HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. “I’ve always... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a successful View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
IBM Business Consulting Services, and CNBC Ventures—ranged from the humble to the almost-conceivably futuristic. By 2008, every person at a similar conference would be enjoying a device with a continuous wireless connection, offered Eric... View Details