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Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management
The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
the solution. In prior writings, we called this strategy “coring.”5 There are several examples. In order to solve the problem of how to build an IBM-compatible personal computer during the 1980s, which IBM tried to control as a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
non-MBA. The non-MBAs mostly come from medical schools, medical school residency programs, law schools, and a variety of PhD programs in economics, applied math, physics, life sciences, and computer science. The non-MBA portion of the mix... View Details
- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
black-box entity linked to a start-up with a dollar sign. A Los Angeles native, Wasserman, 32, met his wife (now a practicing obstetrician) as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received joint degrees in management and finance and View Details
Steven P. Jobs
Jobs was a pioneer in the personal computer industry. He was instrumental in bringing computers to the masses – spawning a multi-million dollar industry. Apple’s attractive, small and inexpensive View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Lore Harp
Working from her suburban kitchen, Harp built a $35 million business in less than five years by creating personal computer systems for the small business market. Her marketing savvy and strong ability to build personal relationships with... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
William C. Norris
An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Michael Dell
In 1992, Dell, at 27 years of age, became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Dell revolutionized the retail computer industry by instituting a direct sales approach, where the customer places their customized order via phone or... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Raymond J. Noorda
Upon his arrival at Novell, Noorda realized that the future of computer networking lay in the software and not the hardware. Novell’s product, Netware, dominated the network operating system market in the early 1990s by making it possible... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
William R. Hewlett
computer empire, which has long had a reputation of being the best-managed company in the industry. Its most popular products, handheld calculators and laser jet printers, helped to spread the company’s fame worldwide. View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
of them being the first of their kind on the market, including typewriters, automatic summary punches, test scoring machines and others. IBM’s biggest achievement however, came when it introduced its first computer in 1952, well behind... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Theodore W. Waitt
Waitt built one of the most successful computer manufacturers and sellers in the US. Along with Dell, Gateway became a pioneering force in using direct mail and the Internet to sell personal computers. Though Gateway has often lagged the... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Fred M. Gibbons
Gibbons was one of the early pioneers in the software development industry. While working at Hewlett-Packard, he developed the Pfs:file software suite which enabled Apple Computer users to manage a host of productivity applications.... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 05 Oct 2022
- News
Inside the Chip Shortage
Chosun. Shibata cites the shortage of minor chips that are used in peripherals, not the lack of key semiconductors, as the main issue. “Until now, computing capabilities were only necessary in computers and... View Details
James G. Treybig
Treybig was a pioneer in the early days of computer development. In 1976, his company introduced the first fail-safe, no fault minicomputer at a time when system failures and breakdowns were commonplace. By stringing together a series of... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
William H. Gates III
In 1980, Gates signed a contract with IBM to develop an operating system for their new personal computer. Gates retained the rights to his operating system, MS-DOS, and struck deals with nearly all other manufacturers of personal computers, who felt their View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
followed by people who are 100 miles away, and so forth in concentric circles. My research on ethnic networks suggests this channel facilitates faster knowledge transfer and faster adoption of foreign technologies. For example, if the Chinese have a strong presence in... View Details
Max Palevsky
Palevsky was a pioneer in the burgeoning computer electronics industry. His firm was one of the first companies to create a line of compatible and modular computers using components sourced from a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Ray W. MacDonald
MacDonald presided over Burroughs during a dramatic growth period for the computer industry in the 1970s, and Burroughs’ products for electronic data processing and financial accounting systems were among those enjoying prosperity... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics