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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

strategy for tech transformation 04 JUN 2025 | Managing the Future of Work Can the shareholder-owned discount brokerage giant parlay its investments in enterprise and cloud infrastructure into an AI-enabled expansion into new markets... View Details

January 2008
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Lenovo: Building A Global Brand (Multimedia case)

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Announced in December 2004, the $1.75 billion acquisition of IBM's PC division by Lenovo, China's largest PC maker, made headlines around the world. A relative upstart in the business, Lenovo acquired the division of IBM that invented the PC in 1981. While Lenovo was... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Infrastructure; Global Strategy; Acquisition; Brands and Branding; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; China

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02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

company he founded, private. Mr. Dell believes that the successful company's transformation from a personal computer (PC) manufacturer to an enterprise solutions and services provider (ESS) is dependent on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2023
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(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

use-case breakthrough could indeed arrive via gaming, but Wu suspects it will emerge from the enterprise category, perhaps for the retail or education sectors. “People are particularly excited about using the metaverse as a way to engage... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Computer; Computer; Computer

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

of upgrades in freemium companies, and the six questions that new business enterprises should explore when considering the freemium model. The article mentions how four companies including NYTimes.com newspaper and Dropbox cloud storage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

David Baker Co-Founder & COO, MBAs Across America MBA 2014 Joseph Baron Co-Founder & CEO, Janus Biotherapeutics MBA 1999 Nancy M. Barry President, NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty MBA 1975 Ruzwana Bashir CEO, Peek.com MBA 2011 Marla... View Details

04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

25 Jan 2021
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In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

700,000 individual users, 1,000 enterprise customers, and more than $40 million in ARR. Yet, as the AI code assistant market became increasingly crowded with tech giants, well-funded startups, and rapidly evolving user expectations,... View Details

William A. Sahlman

William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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Information Technology | About

the Resources and your continued adherence to applicable law, this policy, and other HBS and Harvard University policies. Various forms of computer misconduct are prohibited by federal and state law and are therefore subject to criminal... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

of the Rockefeller family, and was responsible for managing AT&T's $500 million high-end enterprise computing system product line. Steve holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Operations... View Details

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

got 3000 entries. The winning entry used computer vision from the cameras to identify the shape of gill plates and fins to identify endangered species versus species that it was okay to capture. And that’s now been put into effect in the... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

age after World War II, the firm supported established companies like IBM (International Business Machines) as well as emerging enterprises such as DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), which produced a second generation of less expensive,... View Details

07 Jun 2021
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9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

regard, helping to open and secure support. "It is hard work and absolutely vital if the organization is to succeed." McFarlan has spent the past 40 years serving on social enterprise boards, helping organizations find the right leaders,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

professor at Stanford University. The book examines how the best corporate explorers create new enterprises inside large corporations. The authors explain the challenges explorers face, along with the strategies they need to gather... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

Chatter, Microsoft's Yammer, and Jive Software's suite of namesake products. The global enterprise social software market is forecast to grow to $8.14 billion in 2019, according to MarketWatch, from $4.77 billion in 2014. “When it comes... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

out that immigration can enhance the competitiveness of multinational firms. 2013 Chapter Multinational Enterprises and Incomplete Institutions: The Demandingness of Minimum Moral Standards By: Nien-he Hsieh Multinational View Details

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Events - Business History

and interdisciplines who study capitalism in non-urban locations. This conference was organized by the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Oct 16 16 Oct 2017 Business History Seminar Legal Change and Business View Details

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