Netscape - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1999
News

New Releases

Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft has been a focal point in the landmark antitrust suit brought by the Department of Justice against Microsoft. At issue in the case is whether Microsoft used unfair and... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Jerry Yang

money in 1995, Yang and Filo launched the search engine, Yahoo! By including advertising on their site (one of the first to do so) and by structuring deals with Netscape Navigator and others, Yahoo has been able to profitably grow... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

were not realized. Four years later, another company working on the same technology went public to great acclaim and fanfare. The firm? Netscape Communications, under the leadership of Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. 2 Because its new... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 Sep 2006
News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

Felix Oberholzer-Gee came close when he cut ahead in line, all in the name of research. Here’s what companies can learn about long lines and social behavior. Lessons from the Browser Wars The first-mover advantage is well chronicled, but it didn’t help View Details

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

field his generation should focus on, the field that would shape the future. Today's advice for aspiring graduates is also a single word: "software." In a sweeping Wall Street Journal article last summer, Netscape founder Marc... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

themselves or held senior positions in one of the Valley's garage-to-giant start-ups such as Netscape or Oracle. But having failed once or twice along the way does not disqualify them. In fact, the scars are proof of valor—provided one... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

golddiggers, each scrambling to carve out new territories and stake their claims in them. There are people like Marc Andreessen and Jerry Yang (the respective founders of Netscape and Yahoo!), who ventured west to test their mettle and... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

free, bundled version of Hyper-V, an advanced virtualization platform product. Looming over the impending competition between these two companies was the story of the "browser wars," in which Microsoft overwhelmed browser maker View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

School of Business, be sure your competitive position is closer to that of a leading-edge, perpetually paranoid warhorse like Microsoft or Wal-Mart than to a depthless upstart like Netscape or a resting-on-its-laurels Kmart. D'Aveni... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

revenue-based model. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation, is faced with a crucial question in the impending hours of the Firefox 1.0 launch. Firefox, the reincarnation of the Netscape Mozilla browser, has had tremendous... View Details