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January 2000 (Revised November 2000)
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Lucent Technologies New Ventures Group

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett

Lucent Technologies' successful New Ventures Group must present company executives with a strong case for continuing corporate venturing activities despite a troubled financial performance in difficult market conditions. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Business Ventures; Venture Capital; Financial Condition; Change Management; Wireless Technology; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; New Jersey

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2001
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Intel Corporation's Internal Ecology of Strategy Making

By: C. M. Christensen and Robert A Burgelman

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Employment; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

chemical engineering—reported the largest declines in research time, in the range of 30–40 percent below pre-pandemic levels.” Fields that are less equipment-intensive—such as mathematics, statistics, computer science and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

bulk carriers called the 76,000 DWT (deadweight tonnes) Panamax. Using earnings and secondhand prices between 1976 and 2011, they computed the ships' return on investment. Swells And Troughs The researchers found that earnings were quite... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

According to the Financial Times, "Anonymous encouraged 'hactivists' to download a simple tool-known as the 'low orbit ion cannon'-that allows their computers to be used to inundate the targeted website with requests and bring it... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

computer programmers. “Mobile is getting a lot of attention, but we're not seeing mobile as a big employer yet.” "You might go so far as to say that four or five years ago, the beneficiaries of the Internet economy were very large... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

Business School Case 415-028 Aarti Grover and CMS Computers No abstract available Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-051 Sarah Sullivan at Greater Marketing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

been at a tobacco company. But in fact, at American Express, where he had a significant run, he was running the largest customer for computers perhaps in the world, the American Express travel business. And it was based on that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

subscribers every month. The system was extremely complicated. Computers were not using the same operating systems so there were a lot of protocol compatibility problems. There were no databases that could be accessed. So the... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

World Company has achieved a gross-margin return on inventory investments of more than 300%—a substantially higher return than any other retailer we are aware of. Dallas-based CompUSA, which sells computers and associated merchandise, has... View Details

Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

next-generation robot, a little humanoid named QRIO. Mac Mini. Moments after Apple unveiled its $499 Mac Mini in January 2005, the Internet was buzzing with speculation about just what the new computer was for. Sold without a monitor,... View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

June 2016
Teaching Note

$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!

By: David J. Collis

Teaching note for HBS No. 715-441 on Facebook's $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Finance; Management; Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

can do that to some extent in the classroom, but you can't do that for 90 students," says Naranyanan, "whereas the computer never forgets. This is a huge opportunity for online education to do something better than we can do in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

matter of weeks was a bandwidth-heavy proposition. (In the end, the researchers received 7,600 responses, but they had to be ready to process up to 20,000.) "We realized we did not have the computing wherewithal to handle it because... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

Seated before a computer with an Internet link, consumers today can flip through an estimated 800 million Web pages of public information by merely clicking a mouse. Add to this that television, now in 98 percent of American homes, is... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

with a member of the Executive Education staff. EE: How has "Delivering Information Services" evolved in the nearly thirty years it has been taught? Nolan: The course has kept pace with all three of the dominant eras in information technology (IT): from... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

June 2013
Background Note

Mobilizing an Online Business

By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman

Entrepreneurs starting online businesses often need to mobilize multiple sets of users or customers, each of whom hesitates to participate unless others join also. This case presents several challenges with similar structure. View Details