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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
the Intel 8086 to the world’s largest and most sophisticated information processing organization, the International Business Machines Corporation. IBM epitomized the computer industry as it had been for at least two decades: vertically... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
…and They Will Come
At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a firm he has shaped into a world... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
exceeding our expectations," says Cavanagh. "They covered a wide range of projects, from workplace safety and training initiatives, to family-friendly programs, to various partnerships with cities and states." After reviewing the submissions, a panel of judges selected... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Chairman, The Carlyle Group Former Chairman & CEO, IBM Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1963 B.S., Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "HBS was superb at reminding us that asking the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Feb 2020
- News
Culture Shift at Big Blue
Getty Images Getty Images With the news of President and CEO Ginni Rometty’s retirement and the elevation of Arvind Krishna to replace her as chief executive, IBM simultaneously announced that Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) will step up as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
customer-oriented firms such as American Express and RJR Nabisco, Gerstner proceeded to shake up Big Blue's culture, reinventing IBM “from the customer back, not from the company out,” so the firm would become driven by the marketplace.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Stacey A. Lawson (MBA '96) came to HBS with an idea brewing. The former IBM engineer wondered why there were no digital libraries for users of computer-aided design (CAD). Despite the pervasiveness of technology throughout industry, she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Career Makeover
July 8, 2004). Davis first worked at IBM before moving on to Digital. While there, she enrolled in night classes in interior decorating, a longtime interest. Through her membership in a design association, she was discovered by HGTV,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Harreld describe how IBM managed to survive a crisis in the early 1990s and reposition itself to lead the industry. The lesson from IBM is that innovation is not a side business but the very foundation of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
care tools in several Ebola-affected West African countries where IBM has introduced education and data-gathering mobile applications to improve prevention and treatment. View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
of your life.” — Deborah E. Blagg The Watson Dynasty by Richard S. Tedlow (HarperCollins) Love, money, and power make a potent brew, as evidenced by HBS professor Richard Tedlow’s new book, The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM’s Founding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
She filed away what she learned and took a job working at IBM in downtown New York. “My colleagues were the sons and daughters of firemen, policemen, and this was the first white-collar job in their families,” recalls Burton. “The word... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Students Top Marketing Contest
In January, Melissa Lau, Yanlin Liu, and Deena Malkina (all HBS ’08) took home top honors in Rice University’s seventh annual Marketing Case competition, besting student teams from nine other business schools, including Kellogg, Stanford, and Sloan. With the teams... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is conducted. Comparing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
born in the first industrial revolution in England has survived for two hundred years. Another case, on Southland Corporation and Seven-Eleven Japan, examines retailing in the third industrial revolution in two very different environments, the United States and Japan.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
As the Future Catches You
genetics revolution is occurring 50 percent faster than the computer revolution; private companies, from IBM to DuPont to L'Oreal, will have the ability to rewrite the source code of life; and nanotechnology will soon produce "biorobots"... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
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Honoring a Legend
venture capitalist for Greylock. In 1998, he left to run a portfolio company, iXL, which went public and grew to almost $500 million in revenue. After iXL, he joined Silverpop as its CEO, seeing it grow to nearly $100 million, becoming a global leader in cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley