PC Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Cases & Course MaterialsDesign: More Than a Cool Chair Harvard Business School Note 607-026 This introduction to the Design industry includes definitions, and industry statistics, as well as descriptions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

emerge, control and protect one or more strategic bottleneck, and prevent others from gaining control of any system-wide strategic bottleneck. I use this framework to understand how IBM initially succeeded with the PC platform and then... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2000
News

VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

for smaller classes, longer school days, and lots of innovation. "The answer is not just more PCs in the classroom," Doerr emphasized, as he called for the development of more charter schools and stricter standards of school... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe

longer cyclical. The Internet is a big deal, but it's not world-changing. It's another improvement, like the PC was. I have never been more optimistic than I am today about the future of technology. Advice for current MBAs It is a... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance

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VCPE Database Comparison | Baker Library

total) \# VCPE firms 63K 28K 31K 44K \# VCPE funds 115K 124K not available 50K \# deals 325K VC 376K Corp/Strategic M&A 142K Buyout 75K Private Debt 72K IPO 146K PE/Buyout 319K VC 20K Private Debt 106K Real Estate 430K VC 505K Buyout 515K VC 938K M&A/Buyout 487K IPOs... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

year, more than 150 first-year cases had software that was specifically designed to help students analyze cases. PC use eventually became commonplace in second-year courses and exams as well. (More than 90 percent of all exams today are... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

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Paul Baier | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

(PDF) Paul Baier, HBS 1994, launched several entrepreneurial ventures. His first, Compare.com, enabled customers to compare prices on everything from PCs to mortgages. He and his partner bootstrapped for ten months but were unable to get... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

obliterates all competitors, fall so precipitously? Other minicomputer firms were suddenly failing too. How could good managers seemingly turn bad so fast? That was the puzzle. Colleagues suggested exploring the disk-drive industry... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

industrial model to the new information economy, said CEOs of incumbent (pre-Internet) companies are trying to compete with dot-coms, "but they get dot-com vertigo. They trust their senses, even after realizing they're wrong, and they get... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond Accommodation

of household chores because I couldn’t see.” By his junior year at Purdue, where he studied industrial engineering, his vision loss was complete, and Gibbons finally needed a cane to get around and readers to help with his studies.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Profile

Michael Maples

was extraordinarily low,” he recalled. “The art of building something is very different from the art of being a good buyer. Not many entrepreneurs really end up making good VCs.” Maples, however, was undaunted. He was a self-described “child of... View Details

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

successful firms. Some firms have completely changed the competitive dynamics of their industries because of the kind of competitive advantage they've been able to gain in the supply chain. Wal-Mart, of course, is the obvious one. The... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

Bulletin coverage of technology centered on areas such as aviation, energy, and automation. A 1928 article on radio, for example, noted that "with the exception of aviation, no other industry has so swiftly passed from the stage of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

Working PapersThe Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Mike Maples Jr.

was extraordinarily low,” he recalled. “The art of building something is very different from the art of being a good buyer. Not many entrepreneurs really end up making good VCs.” Maples, however, was undaunted. He was a self-described “child of... View Details

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

kitchen; Howard Schultz's early office was the prep room for his first café; and Michael Dell began assembling PCs in his college dorm room. How did they go from these beginnings to creating global organizations that became View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

coding over a new solution." Using a common code base to build applications that automate repetitive tasks is key to serving the needs of various business partners. The Customer's View Representing the customer perspective, GM's CTO Tony Scott outlined transitions... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

organization, and the role of the IS manager was to integrate them in support of the business's transaction processes. Then around 1980 we started to see the emergence of the microcomputer; for the next fifteen years or so, DIS reflected how microcomputers and View Details