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Complementing the political experience was IBM Professor of Business and Government and Harvard Model Congress (HMC) faculty advisor Roger B. Porter, who served in the White House for Presidents Ford, Regan and Bush...
...holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University and is one of corporate America's highest-profile executives. For leading once sleepy Motorola into the digital age, Fisher is on the short list for many high-profile ceo jobs that become available. He spurned an offer to head IBM before Louis Gerstner took that turnaround job in 1993. More recently, Fisher was widely viewed as a possible successor to AT&T chairman Robert Allen. Perhaps partly to scotch speculation that he might be leaving, Fisher agreed to lead Kodak until December 2000 and was rewarded with options...
...more than 100,000. Along the way he refined his ideas about how computers should communicate and what his audience needed. In 1991 Quantum--what a geeky name--became America Online and, with 150,000 members, prepared to battle CompuServe, which had 800,000 members, and Prodigy, an IBM-Sears joint venture with 1.1 million...
This seemed nutty. Compete with IBM? Sears? Even Case's mother, a retired teacher in Hawaii, worried a little. But Case was operating with a bit of screwy good luck and the market savvy that comes from hard knocks. He looked at American consumers and somehow understood what it would take to get them online. IBM and CompuServe bet that the real lure would be lots of fancy computer features. Case, with the taste of dozens of complex pizzas still in his mouth, knew better. What America wanted was cheese, tomato sauce and occasionally some pepperoni. AOL would reek with...
...official Harvard computer dealer and offers educational pricing on certain Macintosh and IBM-compatible systems as well as software and accessories. Its campus location, a block away from Memorial Hall, makes it the closest stop on your computer shopping trip...