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- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Web
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 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
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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 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 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
- 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
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
formation, and innovation. He is also a partner of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he is a leader of its Innovation practice. Chakravorti has advised over 30 Fortune 500 companies on innovation, growth, and new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an HP-12C. Nobody had even heard... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America Globalizing Latin American Beauty By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article discusses the growth over time of the beauty industry in Latin America and its bias towards celebrating whiter rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne