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Georges F. Doriot
capital—right.” In its early days, ARD had no Apple Computer or Google lurking around the corner and the hoped for embrace of this new concept was slow in coming. The firm’s fortunes changed in 1957 when a young MIT Lincoln... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
the market in terms of shipments—next only to Apple and Samsung. As they finished watching Cook’s presentation, Yu and Cheung thought about the Mate 10 series, Huawei’s most advanced smartphone that would be launched on October 16, 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
with Apple for an early release on iTunes of the single "Vertigo," and the video was featured in an Apple ad campaign. "We turned advertising into a rock video," Bono said at the time. That's not selling... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
thriving products at their core. To ensure sustained growth of an ecosystem, a company must prioritize the defensibility of its product. In the case of Anker, the company was able to convince industry leaders, such as Apple and Costco, to... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
School Case 111-114 Inconsistencies in accounting treatment across countries are a major obstacle for global equity investment. Adoption of a single accounting standard (IFRS) has been received with much excitement, where apples to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
as data companies. Partnerships could alleviate this concern. For example, Philips recently aligned itself with Salesforce.com, a leader in customer relationship management approaches that could be applied to patients. Consumer tech companies: Consumer tech companies... View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
“They should pay all of their invoices now and pay anything they can forward,” says Mills. “The Apples of the world should take it as part of their civic responsibility.” Mills emphasized that acting quickly, with both small individual... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
In the high-tech industry, it's common practice for a governing body to develop technical standards for any given technology. The goal is to promote widespread adoption and compatibility among various devices. The Bluetooth standard lets a Nokia headset communicate... View Details
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
naturally. Remember, this is a company that has been described by a number of its chroniclers, rightly or wrongly, as being somewhat averse to the use of marketing research as opposed to following the dreams and preferences of its product developers. View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
the competitive advantage gained by how a product "speaks" to a customer is clear. Just think about how Apple began its resurrection in 1998 with the unthinkable design of computers made of translucent blue, orange, and pink... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
engineering team, which she has grown to more than 150 engineers in Seattle and San Francisco. She started coding when she was five on an Apple IIe, and has built software and led teams at high-growth tech companies for almost twenty... View Details
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Social Media - Alumni
across the world of business, sharing lessons learned and their own life experiences. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Amazon Music WhatsApp Alumni around the world are increasingly connecting via WhatsApp. In addition to a main... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
than those who dress conventionally. “You're saying, 'I'm so autonomous and successful that I can afford to dress in a nonconforming way'” Think Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his hoodie, or the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in black... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
why high tech industries find themselves vulnerable to disruption today reflect thoughts of those who have studied the phenomenon. Philippe Gouamba said, "It is more important for Apple to out-do Samsung (and vice-versa) than it is... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
majority chose to gamble the two dollars and to risk taking another card in Blackjack, regardless of which piece of Apple equipment they were using. However, device size substantially affected whether the participant left the room after... View Details
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
husband, Abdul-Rahman (MBA 2022), was admitted to HBS in March 2020; meeting Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Finance Minister and Chairwoman of GAVI, at HKS; bonding with jointees over apple cider and fresh ice-cream in Vermont; and... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Silicon Valley firms, such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel Corporation, Apple Computer, Inc., Scientific Data Systems, and Teledyne Incorporated. He was the first venture capitalist to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. Rock was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman