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  • 14 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

student to chief executive officer also makes it difficult for device makers to segment the market as cleanly as, say, PC companies are able to do, DelBene said. "Companies are spending a lot of time trying to figure out where the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

paper we draw on two of the most important historical episodes in the history of the computing industry, the introduction of the PC and of the browser, to develop a third hypothesis. Both IBM and Microsoft, having been extremely... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

—End-users have no mechanism enabling effective procurement through uniform templates, which can be contextually linked to government authorized schedules. This often causes a nonsensical lengthening of the purchasing cycle whereby most View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement actions, inferring SEC capture. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

that political correctness is a double-edged sword. Although it has helped many employees feel unlimited by their race, gender, or religion, the PC rule book can hinder people's ability to develop effective relationships across race,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

increase in information technology purchases. Wulf notes that the 1986-1999 time frame was especially significant in terms of corporate technology. The 1990s marked an era when PC prices started falling, when dot-com companies started... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

useful to predict sales and replenish its inventory for PCs. Buyers monitor the sales of a certain product line soon after it is launched and update their forecasts based on those observations. They expedite orders for PCs that are... View Details
Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
  • 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

present new evidence that firm PC positively predict CL reviews and substantive characteristics of such reviews, including the number of issues evaluated and the seniority of SEC staff involved. These results, robust to identification... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

additional millions of poor people to buy in. As prices have fallen, Asian brands such as Asus and Acer of Taiwan have gained share while IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo. “Critics of marketing tend to overestimate the level of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
  • 20 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

inventory, what capabilities each player brings to the table, and so forth. Raman: Our discussion of technology advancements, of course, must include the enhanced ability to process all of this data. Today's desktop PCs and even laptops... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

better would fit this same profile. Now say you are a top executive of IBM or AT&T in the late 1990s. IBM has been famous in the minds of consumers for its hardware, from the big 360s of the 1960s to its PCs of the 1980s, and all the... View Details
Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

encompass a more active role as an intermediary (like eBay) facilitating transactions; or challenge Microsoft's position on the PC desktop by developing software to compete with Office and Windows. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

peripherals. But IBM's major achievement was its mass production and mass marketing of the personal computer, beginning in 1981. In less than a decade, the IBM PC and its clones had conquered world markets. Only Apple was still a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

top PC game League of Legends, considers its growth strategy as it moves into a new campus in Los Angeles. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-098 Terrapin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

worldwide PC market still languished below 5%. Growth in iPod sales was slowing down. iPhone faced increasing competition in the smartphone industry. And would Apple's latest creation, the iPad, take the company to the next level?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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