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15 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

discern online. HP Open Pix and Live Picture offer zoom technology. According to Forrester, Bloomingdale's and J. Crew are starting to use these technologies on their sites. Most online apparel sites plan to introduce zoom technology. A... View Details

Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

HP and Dell that have outsourced most of their computer product design to ODM firms like ASUSTeK, only to watch them morph into competitors. Students can also examine how organizational resources, processes, and values can shape or limit... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software developer Wildfire in 2008 (selling the 350-plus employee firm to... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

who don't know, it's a kind of speaker phone and he had me on speaker phone with John Georges. And Joe was an accountant by training, so he had one of those little ad subtract, multiply, and divide, calculators. This was long before HP... View Details

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

Company Harvard Business School Case 307-093 Digital China is the largest Chinese independent systems integrator (IBM and HP are larger). Describes their history and their current strategy and invites the student to advise them as to how... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

competition. Employees were given three months to find a job in HP and were helped to do so. If they could not find an equivalent level job, they were offered a lower level job. If they preferred not to take that job, they were given... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

proprietary solution. (Music on the iPod can't play on non-Apple devices.) It's very interesting that Apple is allowing HP to resell iPod. It's their first baby step into trying to really get into the mass market and becoming more of what... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Business School; BS, Mechanical Engineering; BA, Values Technology Science & Society, Stanford University Diego is the Chief Product & Design Officer at Intuit. Earlier in his career he worked as a design engineer at HP and at IDEO, where... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

California; founder and chairman, Deathwise, San Francisco, California Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were my first post-college "bosses." I remember being in class at HBS saying, "When I was at HP " and a few people would groan. But... View Details

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