IBM / Hewlett-Packard / America Online / Sun Microsystems / Airbus / Novell / July-August / Microsoft / Citibank / /
Country
United States / United Kingdom / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Product Release / /
Facility
West saloon / Santa Fe Institute / /
IndustryTerm
heavy chemicals / up-dated technology / free services / photo-input devices / bank account / virtual bank / insurance claims / telecommunications equipment / retail / bulk-material manufacturing / insurance / High-tech products / content services / Technology development / dependent products / technology markets / active management / on-line services / software developers / technology wave / retail goods / bulk processing markets / locked-in product / computer-search network / consumer banking / tech products / Technological products / inferior product / spin-off software / metal ores / software facilities / much downloadable software / electronic banking / raw energy / bulk-processing industries / real estate / on-line connection products / high-tech / bulk-processing world / software writers / steel production / pharmaceuticals / on-line news / few large banking networks / software networks / airline / Internet browser / Internet-based retail banking / software / bank / software applications / financial services / base technology / high-tech markets / economy yielding products / web building / banking / high tech / on-line computer networking market / interlinked web / electronic consumer banking / bulk-processing / applicable technologies / law firms / retail franchises / bulk-processing operations / bulk-production world yielding products / downloadable software / rolled steel / bulk processing / Web services / /
OperatingSystem
Netware / Macintosh / CP/M / DOS / Microsoft Windows / Windows 95 / /
Organization
Harvard / navy / Santa Fe Institute / US Justice Department / Stanford / /
Person
Bill Gates / Steve Jobs / Prodigy / Alfred Marshall / John Hicks / W. Brian Arthur / W. Brian Arthur Our / /
Position
economist / paralegal / captain / not the flight attendants / player / CEO / Professor / Professor of Economics and Population Studies / single player / /
Product
its network operating system / Netware / Colorado / Netware / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Java / /
ProvinceOrState
Oregon / California / Colorado / /
PublishedMedium
the Harvard Business Review / Harvard Business Review / /
Technology
base technology / operating system / operating systems / Laser / 1996 technologies / Java / applicable technologies / up-dated technology / /
Appeared in Harvard Business Review, July-Aug.,1996 Increasing Returns and the New World of Business by W. Brian Arthur *