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2019
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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 17 The Wintel Standards-based Platform

The purpose of this chapter is to use the theory of bottlenecks laid out in previous chapters to better understand the dynamics of an open standards-based platform. I describe how the Wintel platform evolved from 1990 through 2000 under joint sponsorship of Intel and... View Details

Keywords: Open Platforms; Bottlenecks; Wintel Platform; Disintermediation; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Business History; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry

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01 Jun 2002
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Blue No Longer

In March, Louis Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM's CEO since 1993, stepped down after achieving a remarkable turnaround at Big Blue. Gerstner, who lacked any previous experience in the computer industry, frequently defied conventional management... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Three Profs Win McKinsey Award

Made in China REASON U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of consumer electronics and computers migrated to Asia. Electrophoretic display MADE IN TAIWAN REASON Its manufacture requires expertise developed from producing flat-panel... View Details

Keywords: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Tips for Working Remotely | Information Technology

see if your router is updated and change its password as you would your own computer. Shared Computers at Home Many of us share home computers with family. If you plan on setting up your HBS mail on a shared... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

They changed their tune and soon dominated the market. Turns out, it’s much more about understanding the workflow in a small business, and computers do only what you tell them to do. And, many times, it’s really the business that has... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

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Considering a Career Transition? Connect with HBS

Are you thinking about making a career move? Or, do you want to work with a coach on some aspect of your leadership? Maybe you want to step back and reflect on your purpose, power up your LinkedIn profile, or practice for an upcoming interview. If these aspects of... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone

truly enjoyed me and that my father's Sicilian relatives gave me so much love," she says. That encouragement - combined with her father's military benefits - enabled her to attend Bennington College, where she majored in psychology and philosophy. After graduation,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

14 Jun 2022

MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Virtual Event

Join us for a virtual event with program faculty, Admissions staff, students and alumni to learn more about Harvard's MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program. Prospective students must have an undergraduate degree in engineering, computer... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Reinventing Marketing

Professor V. Kasturi Rangan, the required Marketing course has been revamped to include new initiatives such as a marketing-strategy computer simulation (called "Pharmasim") and a module on new product development, developed and taught... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; Illustration by Peter Hoey

07 Jun 2024

MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Information Session

Are you an innovator who aspires to launch and lead technology ventures? Join us for a virtual event with program faculty and Admissions staff to learn more about Harvard's MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program. Prospective students must have an undergraduate degree in... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

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2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism | MBA

to and including mandatory withdrawal from HBS. All homework assignments, projects, lab reports, papers, computer programs, and examinations submitted to a course are expected to be the student’s own work. Students should always take... View Details

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

"I've no idea how I did it. I didn't sleep much," she laughs. After graduation, Brochu went to Silicon Valley and worked for a computer security firm. But like the rest of the nation, her worldview shifted on 9/11. She decided... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Dec 2000
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Bottom-Line Beauty

www.bluemercury.com. With a $60,000 budget for the first six months of operation, Malcolm kept a tight rein on unnecessary expenditures, choosing low-cost eMachines over standard desktop computers for her employees' relatively light... View Details

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

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Tools & Services | Information Technology

manage their digital artifacts. Support We're here with friendly, easy-to-understand support so you can focus on teaching, learning, and supporting the School. Computer & Mobile Device Support Learn more about the devices available at HBS... View Details

23 Oct 2024

The MBA + Master's Tour Latin America

Join The MBA + Master's Tour Latin America to connect with top business schools, including HBS, from the comfort of your own computer or mobile device. View Details

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

Many high-tech companies in the United States look overseas to fill talent gaps in their employment ranks by hiring skilled immigrants, often sponsoring the visas these workers need to live in this country. Critics say this can create an unpleasant fallout effect,the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Computer

Jerry Yang

Yang and fellow Stanford University doctoral student, David Filo, created the precursor to Yahoo! to aid them in their use of the burgeoning world wide web. What began as a simple hobby eventually turned into one of the few success stories of the nineties Internet... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Paul B. Wishart

Under Wishart’s direction, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, a pioneer producer of automatic control devices, became Honeywell, Incorporated, a diversified electronics manufacturer. While putting Honeywell on a path of diversification, Wishart doubled sales from... View Details