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November 2016 (Revised July 2019)
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Lenovo to Buy IBM PC: Integration Challenges

By: David G. Fubini and Christine Snively

In December 2004, Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced its purchase of IBM’s PC division. At the time, few industry observers were optimistic about the merger of these entities with seemingly opposite company cultures. How should the two entities plan to... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Strategy; Organizational Culture; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; United States; China

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January 1989
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IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (C)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Employment; Information Technology Industry

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2003
Other Teaching and Training Material

Leadership, Culture, and Change: Lou Gerstner, IBM

By: M. Tushman

Keywords: Leadership; Change; Culture

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January 2010 (Revised February 2010)
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IBM Retail Business Assessment at Dillard's, Inc.: Managing Staffing Levels to Improve Conversion (CW)

IBM consultants are convinced that there is a positive relationship with staffing levels and conversion rate. How should Dillard's, a large department store chain, use this insight to manage their staffing levels? View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Operations; Retail Industry

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May 2008
Teaching Note

Radical Collaboration: IBM Microelectronics Joint Development Alliances (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King

Teaching Note for [608121]. View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

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26 Oct 2011
News

Shih Says IBM Executives Have `Strong Team Dynamic'

November 2017
Teaching Note

Generating Higher Value at IBM (A) and (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 215-058 and 215-059. View Details

Keywords: Dividends; Share Repurchases; Earnings Guidance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Ratios; Payout Policy; Earnings Per Share (EPS); Earnings Management; Change Management; Leadership; Transformation; Financial Strategy

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January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
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IBM and Siemens: Revitalizing the Rolm Division (C)

By: Ashish Nanda, Antonio Davila and Georgia Levenson

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

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September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
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IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Partnerships; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business and Community Relations; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Chicago; Idaho

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March 2004 (Revised February 2005)
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Emerging Business Opportunities at IBM (C): Pervasive Computing

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

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November 1988
Teaching Note

IBM Marketing Organization (A) and (B), Teaching Note

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Marketing

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16 Jun 2016
News

IBM Refused to Lay Off Workers for Decades

19 Mar 2012
News

Why Your Business Should Follow IBM and Not Apple

2012
Chapter

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson

We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry

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