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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
all talent is welcome, regardless of gender. You’ve worked with Jeff Hawkins, the creator of the PalmPilot and Visor, for nearly ten years. What makes your working relationship so successful? We really complement each other. Jeff is... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
partnership that has remained strong through three start-ups. Dubinsky and Hawkins built Palm Computing and made the PDA the most rapidly adopted consumer electronics product at that time. "The PalmPilot grew out of failure," observes... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
example. Early on, there was a lot of confusion about what a PDA was; some early PDAs looked like substitutes for PCs, others like communication devices. Palm was the first firm to define a PDA as a complement to a PC; Palm's connectivity feature was key to this. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
about it. One of my sectionmates even knew Bill Gates! But that was then. As we push through the Aldrich doors and trudge up the stairs, it dawns on me: In 1988, our cases hadn’t made mention of “Internet,” “dot-com,” or any words with the prefix “e-.” Our hands held... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
The first HBS New Venture Competition was held in 1997, in the era of PalmPilot and RealPlayer. And while the tech landscape has changed dramatically since then, many of the core lessons of the entrepreneurial experience—scaling, funding,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
for a company with Palm's record and prospects. Handspring's birth, in July 1998, was huge news in the high-technology industry. Dubinsky and her colleagues had made an enormous success of PalmPilot and its operating system, and that core... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg