Publications

November 2020 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Dell Technologies: Bringing the Cloud to the Ground

By: Navid Mojir and V. Kasturi Rangan

The case tells the story of Dell Technologies and its efforts to revitalize its value proposition and escape a commodity trap by acquiring EMC for $67 billion—the largest tech acquisition in history. It also shows the deeply intertwined connections between a company’s... View Details

Keywords: Value Proposition; Go-to-market; Strategic Positioning; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business Divisions; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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Paul W. Marshall

MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

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14 Jun 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

those is the accelerated pace at which technology is moving– from data and quantum computing to the metaverse and blockchain. How do we, as a school and as business leaders, lean into these trends? What are the opportunities?" The desire... View Details

Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Modeling Track Paper at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Economics and Computation for “Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency in a Simple Labor Market” with Bobak Pakzad-Hurson.... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

three-piece suit kind of guy, and I wasn't. I preferred Boston to New York. And I didn't like working with computers then any more than I do now. Despite the good money, it wasn't the right fit." Instead, O'Donnell remained at HBS as... View Details

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its own end-user products. Ballard says the technology rollout and capitalization process will take place over the coming year; his plan is to... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

experience for me. In college I studied computer science, and those classes usually don’t have much participation—just a lecture and individual exercises to complete. All of my previous schooling was in Israel, so I was used to a learning... View Details

07 Jun 2021
Book

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

Harvard’s and the Metropolitan Museum’s seven-digit-or-more gifts tend to be handled by the CEO and professional development staff. These organizations have large staffs of major gifts officers, sophisticated databases, and computer... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Sep 2006
News

Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

SCHOLAR, WRITER, TEACHER: Levitt, in a photo from 1983. His research tranformed the study and practice of marketing. The HBS community lost a legendary member of its faculty June 28 when marketing expert Theodore (“Ted”) Levitt died at his home in Belmont,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

a sewing factory. I was 14 when she was laid off from her sewing machine factory job. Because I was proficient in English and had computer skills, I helped her to look for another job, which included searching online and writing resumes... View Details

March 2000 (Revised November 2000)
Case

IBM Corporation Turnaround

By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan

Describes the details of IBM's dramatic corporate turnaround in the early 1990s led by CEO Louis V. Gerstner. Accounts of events are from interviews with IBM executives. Covers the factors that led to the company's decline and actions taken to recover. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

Profile

Brandon Lovell

internship – in which Brandon fulfilled IT service functions – proved to be a powerful step forward. But when Brandon's ambitions grew beyond "fixing computers to wanting to be a management consultant, I found some resistance; I was... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

June 2015 (Revised August 2016)
Case

Apple's Future: Apple Watch, Apple TV, and/or Apple Car?

By: David B. Yoffie and Eric Baldwin

In 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook knew that Apple, despite its phenomenal success, needed to continue to innovate in new product areas in order to continue its momentum into the future. This case explores three new (actual or potential) product offerings from Apple: the... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Electronics; Innovation; Technology; Technological Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry