SocialMedia Networks / Sea / Deloitte LLP / Li & Fung / Motorola / Novell / Facebook / Samsung / Salesforce.com / Dell / IBM / Deloitte Consulting / Southwest Airlines / AT&T / Google / HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION / T-Mobile / Verizon / Xerox / Bank of America / McKinsey Quarterly / Sprint Nextel / Intel / Microsoft / /
Currency
USD / / /
Event
Business Partnership / /
IndustryTerm
enterprise software / iTunes network / nancial services / local area networks / computer networking / high-tech world / digital technology infrastructure / important technology arena / software packages / energy / online service / looser economic web / social media / social networking / technology component / telephone industry / advertising platforms / advertising / computing / extreme example / local area networking / energy technology / foundational technologies / capitalintensive processing activities / local area network / important new technology category / digital infrastructure / back-office credit-card-processing services / enlisted such well-known telecommunications players / software industry conferences / high-tech / electricity / technology infrastructures / software / large enterprise software systems / network-based services / banking / prospective buyers / mini-applications / providing back-office credit-card-processing services / /
OperatingSystem
Android / /
Organization
Palo Alto Research Center / Harvard / Open Handset Alliance / International Organization for Standardization / /
Person
Bill Gates / Lang Davison Included / John Hagel III / Malcolm McLean / Dan Lovallo / Marc Benioff / Carlota Perez / / /
Position
executive director / founder / historian / CEO / powerful / farsighted CEO / general business uncertainty / editor-in-chief / chief scientist / director / /
Product
AdSense / AdSense platform / /
ProvinceOrState
Washington / California / /
PublishedMedium
Harvard Business Review / /
Technology
underlying technologies / operating system / alternative energy technology / LAN / Android / cellular telephone / its products / local area networks / /
www.hbr.org A company’s bid to rally an industry ecosystem around a new competitive view is an uncertain gambit. But the