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09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

Model-Linker to the open source community to help the Linux community write software to connect Linux with Hewlett-Packard's RISC computer architecture. This strategy is similar to giving away the razor (the released code) to sell more razor blades (the related... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

Fast Answer

Bloomberg: market index prices, members & movers

shortcuts and hit GO: HP for historical price table with volume GP for graph of historical prices GPA for graph of historical average prices Use amber fields to modify the display; e.g., start/end date, frequency, currency, and the... View Details

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

that were discontinued at Hewlett-Packard, these programs may indeed have an upside—but there is a potential downside lurking, too. The HP experience was eye-opening as well as sobering. Thirteen separate units of the company—at different... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Fast Answer

Bloomberg: company information

How can I get detailed company information in Bloomberg? Type [ticker], hit EQUITY, and hit GO to browse main menu or type a shortcut to go directly to specific information. e.g., VOD LN [EQUITY] HP [GO] for Vodafone prices. Frequently... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Tackling the data dilemma

firm with innovative products, services, and solutions to help companies transition to the new style of IT. Since joining HP in 2011, Whitman has championed initiatives that help customers navigate the new realities of 21st-century... View Details

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

this same type of tension at Hewlett-Packard, the Silicon Valley technology giant. HP is famous for its values, known as the "HP Way." Employees saw the actions of former CEO Carly Fiorina in 2001-2002, including large-scale... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Officer at HP when the episode was recorded; now Chief Sustainability Officer and EVP at Mastercard (The HP Way to Net Zero): “Find your passion, find the area that you want to work in, whatever that is, and... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Back to School

for two years, until Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. “I had my first baby by then, so it was time to go,” says Whitney. After a short stint in Paris, the family returned to Massachusetts, where another son was born. In 1993, Whitney went back to View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

reading about their inventions on paper. He cites the words of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Lew Platt: "If only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive." Just the interchange... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

performance are being carried down to next-generation entrepreneurs. Helping former employees is part of that legacy and culture. Senior mentor capitalists describe how Bill Hewlett encouraged them when they left HP and how View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

Iansiti says. "Traditional alliances are formed between a business development executive and an individual company like IBM or Cisco. In the open source scenario, you could say that there's an alliance between IBM or HP and every... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406127 HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI Harvard Business School Case 606-045 Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

would probably have been mini-computers. Today, their response would be printers and personal computers. An HP spin-off, Agilent is actually in HP's original business space. Ask what business they think the company will be in ten years... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

gosh. If I were you, I would be scared to death..." The Case Of Hp Hewlett-Packard lost ground in the disk drive race, Christensen suggested, because it made what appeared to be very smart decisions based on its great size. As a case... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

engineering-business graduates. Later, graduates of Stanford's computer sciences department joined the cohort. HP benefitted directly from Stanford's multidisciplinary educational strategy that contributed to the background of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

importantly, mindset. Photography firms like Nikon, Canon, or Kodak, coming into this new arena, think about it very differently than Sony or another consumer electronics firm or HP or Intel as computer industry firms. So given the biases... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

School Case 411-056 Mark Hurd resigned as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2010 after the board discovered that he had misfiled expense reports and paid an HP contractor for unsubstantiated work. After Hurd left HP, he joined Oracle, an... View Details