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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
college, Ma worked as a project manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where she first realized she had an interest in business. “I had this insatiable curiosity about HP’s customers and the company’s competition,” she recalls. “I also found... View Details
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
think? Original Article The case study for this month is inspired by the Hewlett-Packard board, which deserves some kind of award for continuing to supply business schools with years worth of materials on corporate governance. One can... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
new line of business. (Starbucks partners with hot-spot provider, T-Mobile and Hewlett-Packard to offer users subscription plans that average under $40 per month.) We are moving to a time when broadband will be totally ubiquitous, part of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806044 Hewlett-Packard Co.: The War Within Harvard Business School Case 107-030 In September 2006 it was revealed that the Hewlett-Packard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
Ideal Laboratory In the early 90s, Hewlett-Packard seemed a perfect setting for innovations in pay. A so-called "built-to-last" company, it was highly decentralized and enjoyed a sense of mutual trust, high commitment, and wide... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Successful Entrepreneur," Fortune, 27 October, 1986: 58. In 1998, Compaq bought out DEC, and in 2002 Hewlett-Packard bought out Compaq. 48 James F. Morgan quoted in Ante, 197. 49 Gupta, ed., First Venture Capitalist , xx. Contact Baker... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
participants with management in creating a new management approach and then researching its efficacy. The process has been used successfully at companies such as Merck, Honeywell, and Hewlett-Packard in addition to Becton Dickinson, and... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
This philosophy of management, wherever it is found in the Silicon Valley, was in some ways inspired by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, founders of Hewlett-Packard and proponents of the "H-P Way" of doing things. They populated... View Details
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
problems—be it a Hewlett-Packard or more recently Procter & Gamble and JC Penney—is the only alternative firing the CEO and starting over? A: You don't have to fire the CEO. A lot depends on establishing the right kind of working... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
in creating the personal computer industry; the department store Dayton-Hudson launched Target; and Hewlett-Packard created and grew to dominate the disruptive ink-jet printer business. When they follow the rules we've described in our... View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Successful Entrepreneur," Fortune, 27 October, 1986: 58. In 1998, Compaq bought out DEC, and in 2002 Hewlett-Packard bought out Compaq. 48 James F. Morgan quoted in Ante, 197. 49 Gupta, ed., First Venture Capitalist , xx. Contact Baker... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
reading about their inventions on paper. He cites the words of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Lew Platt: "If only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive." Just the interchange between old and new designers... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
decisions about whether to quit the job he loves at Hewlett-Packard to join Apple Computer, how to define his role within Apple, whether to take on Jobs as his co-founder, whether to accept a third co-founder proposed by Jobs, and how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
company operation or process." "I think of intrapreneurship as an attitude or spirit that involves creating something new," she says. The General Motors Saturn and the Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter computer printer, for example, were both... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG), gathered his thoughts before a meeting with his top executives and managers for product design and marketing. On the agenda was a discussion of strategic next steps for the group.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-026 'Not so fast...' Litigation Strategy in EMC Corporation v. Donatelli (A) The sudden departure to Hewlett-Packard of a top-level EMC... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
the top, you need both. Q: This is a good way to segue perhaps into a specific situation. We're talking about charismatic or lack of charismatic leadership. Hewlett-Packard has been in the news lately. Serious problems there with the... View Details