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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

involved or started a number of entrepreneurial ventures. While working three days a week at AOL, he bootstrapped Compare.com , which enabled customers to compare prices on everything from PCs to mortgages. Later, He worked for Open... View Details

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

circuit boards replace transistor technology First ATM installed Influence: Medium 70 1970 s 19 Beginning of biotech industry Fiber-optic wire Pong (first video game) UPC bar code Supercomputer Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software industry booms View Details

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Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services

subscriptions available to you by logging into your WRDS account. 2. SAS SAS/Connect allows you to communicate with the WRDS Unix server from within a SAS program running on your computer. It works by establishing a connection from within View Details

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

Out with the old, in with the new! That's the natural path of innovation. PCs killed typewriters, for instance. Smartphones superseded telephones, pocket calculators, and point-and-shoot cameras. Every once in a while, though, an old... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

computers is on IT's self-service Software Portal for PC and Mac . If you need research software for a non-HBS issued computer , fill out this form . If you are interested in resesarch software not listed on our website, HBS likely does... View Details

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

adoption, testing the model on 15 technologies in 166 countries from 1820 to 2003. They covered major technologies related to transportation (from steamships to airplanes), telecommunication (from the telegraph to the cell phone), IT (the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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VCPE Database Comparison

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software industry booms PC use expands in scale and scope CAD/CAM revolutionizes manufacturing Space shuttle Influence: Medium-High 90 1990 s Boom in connectivity Cloning, stem cell research DVDs... View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Almost fifty years ago, nineteen-year-old Andy Grove stepped off a boat in New York City, a poor immigrant from Hungary who barely escaped Nazi occupation. A decade later he co-founded Intel, the chipmaker that would help invent the PC... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

his past to make a more interesting future. The inability of business to do that has often resulted in infamous episodes. For example, IBM's refusal to "cannibalize" its success in mainframe computers by pushing PCs and the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

sufficient condition. Beyond network effects, successful platforms make it hard for their users to multihome. Multihome means users can participate on multiple platforms at the same time. In the old days, it was hard to use both a Windows View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)

upscale, premium desserts to the masses. Elevator pitch: Finale is an upscale dessert-focused restaurant concept that provides people with an alternative to bars or coffee shops, where they can enjoy a sensational dessert experience. Our goal is to become a national... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; desserteries; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

William H. Gates III

to IBM’s. In 1987, Gates revolutionized the computer market again with the introduction of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface, which made the IBM PC and compatibles user-friendly. With $16.7 billion in revenues in 1998,... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

different product life cycles. Making the transition has been extremely hard. What made the iPod transition easier is that the iPod began as a PC peripheral, even though it's ultimately a consumer electronics product. Although it took him... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

be put in the path of adoption. If you are a technology-centric person, in the West you don't think in terms of a computer replacing a teacher, but in a budget-strapped developing country environment, resources are so limited, there aren't enough teachers. Should View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

25 Jul 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

The Evolution of Apple

only 6 million units over the course of 3 years, compared with sales of 300 million PCs during the same period. "Apple's market share has always been lower than its consumer mind share," remarks Yoffie. Birth of The Cool In... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology

01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story

Office software for the Mac. In 1998, Apple launched the iMac, a candy-colored computer that fit well with its ad campaign to “Think Different.” Even so, it sold only 6 million units over the course of three years, compared with sales of 300 million View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Andrew S. Grove

While CEO of Intel, Grove delivered a ten-year annual return of 44%. Under Grove, Intel became more valuable than IBM with a worth of $115 billion and annual profits of $5.1 billion. Grove’s Intel controlled 90% of the world market for PC... View Details