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  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

period a small number of followers entered the new path. The inability of the British, French, Italian, and then German companies to compete with IBM's mainframes and the plug-compatibles in the 1970s and IBM and its PC clones in the... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
  • 05 May 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"denial is avoidable and leads to failure," such as Henry Ford's presumption that consumers would continue to want black autos in the face of evidence that they were becoming more interested in color; IBM's dogged pursuit of PC... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 07 May 2019
  • News

How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal

attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding prospects for investment. Around that... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide Internet- and multimedia-capable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Five Degrees of Doriot

also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch

Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office suite of products, Ballmer dismissed the challengers as caring more about altruism than profit. He insisted there will continue to be demand for Microsoft software that delivers feature-rich capabilities to View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 06 Dec 2012
  • News

New Thinking on Healthcare Reform

of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can provide more... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

technology for the dizziness, said Nolan. "The Internet is the fastest-growing technology to ever reach fifty million users, and it did it in four years." In contrast, he said, "television took thirteen years to reach that many people, and the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 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 industry... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

others to buy into your perspective? Is a digital camera a substitute for an analog camera? Is it a PC peripheral? Is it something like a camcorder? And how do consumers make sense of it? What features do they value? Ideally, producers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance
  • 06 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

needs, design new products to solve customer problems, and motivate purchase through attractive pricing and heavy advertising, with the occasional dose of built-in obsolescence. An example is Intel's remarkably effective pull advertising campaign that had consumers... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 28 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

B2B Branding: Does it Work?

ingredient brand. It makes zero sales to end consumers, yet Intel built a consumer demand pull for its chips that required every PC manufacturer to incorporate them and to advertise Intel Inside on their products and in their ads. Other... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

implement broadly. In contrast, the most familiar digital communications technology today is a personal computer linked to the Internet. Unlike the ubiquitous television set, however, Internet-linked PCs are still found in less than half... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

music to mobile handsets (via streaming, side-loading content from a PC or downloading it wirelessly over the air), created a potentially market-changing opportunity for players in several industries. Examines the key players, including... 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
  • 03 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Web Services

ten years. That's a new model for the software industry—think about a ten-year-old PC and what utility value it has—it's a boat anchor. But there are lot of ten-year-old cars that will need service and support." "I would argue... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service
  • Web

VCPE Database Comparison | Baker Library

Boolean within Keywords Yes Contacts - Firms Yes (Direct emails) Yes (Direct emails) C-Suite Only (LinkedIn profiles) Yes (limited direct contact info but goes beyond C Suite) Contacts - PCs Yes (Direct emails) C-Suite Only (LinkedIn... View Details
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