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- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Microsoft's Search (TN)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Eric J. Van den Steen
Teaching Note for [709461]. View Details
- April 2008 (Revised September 2008)
- Teaching Note
Apple Inc., 2008 (TN)
By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
Teaching Note for [708480]. View Details
- March 2001
- Teaching Note
Lucent Technologies New Ventures Group TN
Teaching Note for (9-300-085). View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2009
- Teaching Note
IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [308105]. View Details
- July 2009 (Revised June 2016)
- Teaching Note
Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A) & (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley
Teaching Note for [409003]. View Details
- December 2005
- Case
IBM and Eclipse (A)
IBM faces a collective action problem: It open sourced its $40 million application platform and has to convince other companies to contribute. Explores the events leading up to IBM's decision to make the Eclipse platform available as an Open Source project. In 1998,... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Cooperation; Adoption; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
O'Mahony, Siobhan, Fernando Cela Diaz, and Evangelos Mamas. "IBM and Eclipse (A)." Harvard Business School Case 906-007, December 2005.
- January 2001
- Teaching Note
IBM Corporation Turnaround TN
By: Richard L. Nolan
Teaching Note for (9-600-098). View Details
- July 1998
- Case
Microsoft--1995 (Abridged)
By: Tarun Khanna and David B. Yoffie
Focuses on how Microsoft built one of the world's greatest franchises and poses questions about what, if anything, can stop the company. Teaching purpose: To teach building competitive advantage, the advantages of bundling, and the sustainability of competitive... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Khanna, Tarun, and David B. Yoffie. "Microsoft--1995 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 799-003, July 1998.
- April 1999 (Revised February 2003)
- Teaching Note
Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot TN
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Teaching Note for (9-699-046). View Details
- November 1987
- Case
International Business Machines: Changes in Marketing Organization
By: Frank V. Cespedes
Cespedes, Frank V. "International Business Machines: Changes in Marketing Organization." Harvard Business School Case 588-037, November 1987.
- January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Darryl S. Romanow
This case provides a realistic, current, and detailed view of software procurement in an international business environment where the competition in enterprise-wide software solutions is growing. Focuses on the selection of packaged software to serve multiple sites... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Multinational Firms and Management; Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, Mark Keil, and Darryl S. Romanow. "Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project." Harvard Business School Case 398-085, January 1998. (Revised February 1998.)
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
mention” candidates, Tony Hsieh, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson. Musk did his undergraduate work at Wharton and completed a graduate degree in physics at Stanford. Hsieh displayed entrepreneurial skills as a student at Harvard College where he received his BA in View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal of creative control, and it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Smartphone Industry By: Paik, Yongwook, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Strategy scholars have documented in various empirical settings that firms seek and leverage stronger institutions to mitigate hazards and gain competitive advantage. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2020
- Book
Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
By: Debora L. Spar
Covering a time frame that ranges from 8000 BC to the present, and drawing upon both Marxist and feminist theories, the book argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives—whom to marry, how to have children, how to have sex, how to think about... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Family; Women; Reproduction; Artificial Intelligence; Robots; Gender; Demography; History; Innovation and Invention; Relationships; Society; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Spar, Debora L. Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.