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- September 1989 (Revised January 1990)
- Case
Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A)
Describes how Vinod Khosla got Sun Microsystems started, and a critical marketing challenge the company faced at the end of the first year. Objective is to illustrate how bold creative thinking can make or break start-ups. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
Bhide, Amar. "Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-049, September 1989. (Revised January 1990.)
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
to prevent this apparent discrimination? In their paper “Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy,” the researchers note that the most obvious way to squelch racism on Airbnb is to squelch the ability to identify the race of guests or hosts online. To that end,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Barron, and Kagan Tumer Abstract We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
poses and less likely in constrictive poses. Now they wanted to look into whether behavior was affected during the poses. This might help to answer questions like: Would people be more likely to join a game of online poker while using a desktop View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
didn't use computers himself and didn't see the value in the strategy. So a group of self-starters went ahead and designed a small, low-risk e-commerce pilot anyway. It tested well, the CEO was at last impressed, and the project moved... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
huge impact on the business models of major record labels. Modularity, and the commoditization spill-over enabled by modularity in the personal computer industry, was a major force in the development of the market. While Apple's iPod... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
importantly, mindset. Photography firms like Nikon, Canon, or Kodak, coming into this new arena, think about it very differently than Sony or another consumer electronics firm or HP or Intel as computer industry firms. So given the biases... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software? The answer to this question may be shifting just as economic and social life becomes dependent upon a common computing infrastructure.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
true cluster in Costa Rica will take decades to complete, but I'm confident that it will be sustainable because the country offers some unique qualities that are a source of competitive advantage — among them, the highest computer usage... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that... View Details
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
from each other and f peers (freeriders) who download from sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth is scarcer than download bandwidth and efficient allocation, we compute the expected bandwidth obtained by each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
If there is one job that many software analysts and programmers cannot stand, it is testing software on the path to launch. The grinding concentration and repetitive nature of the tasks serve to drive many techies around the bend. Testing—due in no small part to the... View Details
- 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
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
companies such as Sony and Matsushita) led to the migration of R&D in consumer electronics to Japan (and later to South Korea and Taiwan). As consumers demanded ever-smaller, lighter, and more powerful (and power hungry!) mobile View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
known as “the Library,” where it is organized into an alternative environment. The Library was formerly the Library of Congress, but it long since has evolved from information in books to complex computer files. "Mark Zuckerberg reminded... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52939 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Computer Vision Uncovers Predictors of Physical Urban Change By: Naik, Nikhil, Scott Duke... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel