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- January 2008
- Article
Putting Leadership Back into Strategy
In recent decades an infusion of economics has lent the study of strategy much needed theory and empirical evidence. Strategy consultants, armed with frameworks and techniques, have stepped forward to help managers analyze their industries and position their companies... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
Montgomery, Cynthia A. "Putting Leadership Back into Strategy." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 54–60.
- September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!
By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
Shih, Willy. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!" Harvard Business School Case 612-017, September 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
typically ranged between 20 percent and 40 percent of the combined market cap of software providers. This is a fraction of the more than 80 percent of total market capitalization of the much larger ecosystem of computer software, components, systems, and services that... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
Early iterations of IBM's ViaVoice software package featured IBM's "ideal" customer on the front: an administrative assistant sitting in front of her computer, speaking into a headset. It is easy to see why IBM targeted such... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
runs), and scaling (the development of a full-fledged new product or service). "Becoming a corporate explorer is not a route to a safe or easy career." The authors share the stories of influential explorers, such as retired IBM manager... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
analysts, auditors, and accounting standards—rush in to fill that gap. Even in cases where a certain company dominates a market to create a near monopoly, entrepreneurs can find competitive advantages to create new opportunities—think IBM... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Bockhoff of National Automatic Tool also worked at NCR, as did Joseph E. Rodgers of Addressograph-Multigraph, Henry Theobold of Toledo Scale, William Sherman of Standard Register, and Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines. In a very direct way, the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
taking shape. Until recently, there had been an IBM de facto industry standard for the operating system, and a de facto standard in the use of COBOL for applications development. By the late 1990's, new applications development had become... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
foster competition down the line, as IBM did when it let the IP of essential components slip out of its own hands and into the grasp of Microsoft and Intel. Finding those people who have the will and desire to innovate in your system can... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
achievement. In the 1960s, however, it began to self-destruct by diversifying, first in attempting to compete with IBM in the production of mainframes and then by becoming a conglomerate, purchasing, among others, Hertz Rent A Car,... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
Set Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
to the specific content of their cultures, shaping them to inculcate specific behaviors relevant to strategic execution. Eager to support goals like innovation, quality, growth, and excellence in customer service, companies like Southwest and View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Perhaps no technology company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. have achieved this success during times of incredible technological transformation, usually... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
open source development process. For example, IBM released half a million lines of its Cloudscape program, a simple database that resides inside a software application instead of as a full-fledged database program, to the Apache Software... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
performance and career outcomes,” the paper says. Will companies embrace remote work long term? Despite the seismic shift many companies made to remote work during the pandemic, some business leaders remain concerned about adopting the model permanently. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
wish to imply that reputation does not matter in developed economies, including in facilitating longevity. There is little doubt that reputation, broadly defined, is part of the explanation why US corporations such as Citibank, GE, Ford, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
opportunity to earn their own way. It’s about the distribution of dignity. IBM Executive Chairman Ginni Rometty, one of OneTen’s founders and board co-chair, explains that the goal of OneTen is not to simply move people into any job. “We... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
profit is by selling complementary goods and services. For example, IBM sells consulting services and proprietary software that are complementary to the OS software it develops, and Sun sells complementary hardware such as servers.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
take 1955 (with the IBM 701) as the start date and use eighty years as a technology cycle, 2035 may not be far off the mark for playing much of this out. Even then, the special recombinant nature of this technology makes us uncomfortable... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
firm calls an industry "unprofitable" while another firm calls that market "important," asymmetries are at work. For example, in the 1990s, Cisco raced to capture more of the networking equipment market while IBM... View Details