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- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
software. Ideas, manpower, and money add up to tremendous innovation occurring in the country right now, he said. John Deng, CEO and president of Chinese chipmaker Vimicro, said his company is proof of Chinese innovation. Vimicro holds some 400 patents and is the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
possibility of reversing the launch sequence and going with a "Brazos First" strategy. The case describes the microprocessor industry, its main competitors (AMD and Intel), and the evolving world of PC selling and buying. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with the escalating content demands from the marketplace and the non-profit OLPC Foundation. It also had to fit the project into its company business model which served global lead View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
digital platforms not only shaped individual organizations but changed the structure of the entire computer industry. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55092 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 15... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
Business School Case 706-496 Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share relative to the worldwide computer over the past few years. Will... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
expanded its offering to cover a broad spectrum of Internet and mobile security products. In 2012 the company launched its own Internet search engine called So.com. By August 2013, So.com captured 18% PC market share and had posed a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto... View Details