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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, Hayes worked for IBM and McKinsey & Company. He is currently the School's Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. Martha Lagace: You write in the book that many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
that only large enterprises could attempt. IBM, for instance, has created a nonprofit partnership, World Community Grid, through which any organization or individual can donate unused computing power to research projects and see what is being done with the donation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
for being the top field-hockey school in the country. Its premed program was also highly respected, and Fisher, who was majoring in biophysics, realized she had to make a choice. She chose science but ultimately deferred her medical school acceptance, instead taking a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
change. Encouraging self-organizing networks to let them investigate whatever they want to through company channels can produce new business ideas, as IBM found in the early days of virtualization. When talented employees leave to start... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
facts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-101.pdf Cases & Course Materials Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1 Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson HoutHarvard Business School Case 311-030 Sam Palmisano became CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
prison sentence for financial fraud. In the case, Richards responds to a number of questions about managerial responsibility and the manipulation of financial performance in a letter written to a graduate student. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Media, Entertainment, & Leisure When it comes to assessing change over the past 25 years, perhaps the best place to start is technology. When Moore began her job in the finance department at Time magazine, she was set up with the state-of-the-art tools of the day: an... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
analytic engines to more aspects of what workers are doing, slicing the data ever finer — IBM modeling individual employees, retailers using so-called human-capital management systems to time even the smallest task and to schedule people... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Established enterprises have customer relationships, channels to market, technical capabilities, critical data and information about consumers, along with a myriad other factors that will increase the impact of any innovation they come up with. Apple, Microsoft,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel) nor of any other... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
second full-color cover donned the announcement that in 1964 the School became the proud owner of an IBM 1401 computer. During the 1970s, Bulletin articles reported the automation of Baker Library's holdings, the inclusion of cases on... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
applying to HBS, he worked at DuPont, served as a lieutenant in the US Army, briefly attended law school at Howard University, and worked at an IBM subsidiary. WILLIS: I walked into my first class at HBS, and I was the only black in one... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Perspective Leading Proactive Punctuated Change By: Tushman, Michael, Charles O'Reilly, and Bruce Harreld Abstract—This chapter focuses on leading proactive punctuated change. Based on the institutional and organizational change literatures and our extended involvement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Cases & Course MaterialsLeading by Values: Sam Palmisano and IBM William W. GeorgeHarvard Business School Case 411-097 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411097-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
hope of change; examples include Coca-Cola in Venezuela, Intel in Costa Rica, and Land O'Lakes International, Cisco, BP, and IBM in many countries. These are the kinds of initiatives that the WDC would undertake and encourage. With... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
edge of the most dramatic changes in our history. After earning an engineering degree, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, America ’s first line of defense during the Cold War against Soviet ambitions. He joined View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
balance. The last thing you want to do is foster competition down the line, as IBM did when it let the IP of essential components slip out of its own hands and into the grasp of Microsoft and Intel. Finding those people who have the will... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half decades. The open architecture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace