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  • August 2013 (Revised December 2014)
  • Case

Taking Dell Private

By: David J. Collis, David B. Yoffie and Matthew Shaffer
In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Going Private; The PC Market; Market For Corporate Control; Corporate Strategy; Leveraged Buyouts; Change Management; Private Equity; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States
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Collis, David J., David B. Yoffie, and Matthew Shaffer. "Taking Dell Private." Harvard Business School Case 714-421, August 2013. (Revised December 2014.)
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

with a diverse set of companies. "In this way, we could pool all this knowledge and distill it down to the essential principles that CIOs can generally apply, regardless of industry or size of firm, while describing 'realistic' and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Dorothy A. Leonard

    Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

    Keywords: computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer
    • 11 Apr 2024
    • News

    Mission Control

    analytical work. I did a piece of research that uncovered or discovered the equivalence to Moore's law from the computer industry in the space industry. And I had full understanding of how Moore's law, 2x... View Details
    • January 2006 (Revised October 2006)
    • Case

    Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A)

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    Hewlett-Packard decided that, to grow more rapidly, it needed to design a revolutionary disk drive product that would create an entirely new market or application for magnetic recording technology. The company followed most of the "rules" good managers follow in such... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Information Infrastructure; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Computer Industry; United States
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    Christensen, Clayton M. "Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-088, January 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
    • Blog

    Is AI Coming for Your Job?

    experts perform their work. Yes, certain tasks can be completed correctly and completely by AI, but for those types of tasks we will see something like the Industrial Revolution, where people's jobs changed, and they were able to use new... View Details
    • 13 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    March 13, 2018

    of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities to engage in R&D, and export. We find no significant effects for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Aug 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why IT Does Matter

    but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details
    Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
    • 09 Jun 2008
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

    firms to focus on their IP? A: In many nations, intellectual property has become increasingly important. In part, this change has reflected the changing mixture of the economy, with the development of knowledge-intensive industries such... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
    • 24 Feb 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

    industry and application security companies, including developer-first security company Snyk and the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (SCRC), the Linux Foundation and LISH were able to combine private usage data with publicly... View Details
    Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
    • 03 Dec 2021
    • Blog Post

    Physicians Off the Beaten Path

    engineering and was required to spend equal amounts of time at a laboratory, in front of a computer and at the hospital. “Doctors,” this professor said, “won’t trust you if they know you are engineers.” I later came to know he was being... View Details
    • 01 Jan 2004
    • News

    D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

    graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory for the Navy's airplanes. About... View Details
    • February 2024 (Revised January 2025)
    • Case

    AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup

    By: Frank Nagle, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein and Susan Pinckney
    The case describes the history of AGENTS.inc. Despite being a small startup, with only four employees, that had never had a funding round, the company boasted an impressive client portfolio including multiple Fortune 500 companies. While AGENTS.inc had been an early... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Small Business; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Copyright; Management; Growth and Development; Market Timing; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Entrepreneurial Finance; Computer Industry; Europe; Germany
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    Nagle, Frank, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein, and Susan Pinckney. "AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup." Harvard Business School Case 724-444, February 2024. (Revised January 2025.)
    • 01 Aug 2001
    • News

    Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

    of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean feat in 1962," Fisher recalls.... View Details
    Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • 14 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller

    Associate Scientist at Unilever’s Personal Care R&D site in Trumbull, Connecticut. There, I did computational chemistry research and machine learning modeling to find new active ingredients for skincare products. I quickly found out,... View Details
    • April 2001 (Revised March 2002)
    • Case

    Seagate Technology Buyout

    By: Gregor M. Andrade, Stuart C. Gilson and Todd C. Pulvino
    In March 2000, a group of private investors and senior managers were negotiating a deal to acquire the disk drive operations of Seagate Technology. The motivating factor for the buyout was the apparently anomalous market value of Seagate's equity: Seagate's equity... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Strategy; Computer Industry
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    Andrade, Gregor M., Stuart C. Gilson, and Todd C. Pulvino. "Seagate Technology Buyout." Harvard Business School Case 201-063, April 2001. (Revised March 2002.)
    • 15 Jul 2019
    • Book

    Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

    together and rationalize them, this should result in cost savings. If you bring two companies together, you will control more capacity within an industry and gain more pricing power. Imagine if Amazon wanted to merge with eBay. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 06 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

    MBA, you are likely thinking about what repayment might look like post-graduation. HBS graduates pursue careers in a variety of industries and positions around the world. With a median starting salary of $148,750, and median signing bonus... View Details
    • Web

    History - Entrepreneurship

    nascent high technology industry lead to the creation of a Hall of Fame list of disruptive, innovative, landmark companies such as: Fairchild Semiconductor Intel Apple Computer Teledyne Diosonics New Venture... View Details
    • 29 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

    micro-foundations for formulating and solving strategic problems. It shows how the languages and disciplines of theoretical computer science, “artificial intelligence,” and computational complexity theory... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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