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  Babson College - Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky is widely recognized as one of the most successful, cutting-edge, serial entrepreneurs of the last decade.
Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins introduced the original PalmPilot in February 1996, a move that revitalized the handheld computing industry.
Dubinsky concluded her presentation with fifteen pieces of advice that focused on entrepreneurs, business and life.
www3.babson.edu /CWL/bios/ddubinsky.cfm   (204 words)

  
 Donna Dubinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donna Dubinsky, together with Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George recently founded Numenta, Inc. to further develop the pattern recognition software termed as Hierarchical Temporal Memory.
Dubinsky serves as a director of Palm, as well as of Intuit.
Dubinsky adopted a child from Russia in the mid 1990's and married Len Shustek in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donna_Dubinsky   (799 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dubinsky failed to protect her area of responsibility from a rival until it was too late.
Dubinsky should have anticipated that Coleman was part of the Macintosh/Steve Jobs “in-group,” and that Coleman would enjoy extra influence with Steve Jobs, the leader of this sub-group.
Dubinsky found herself in a difficult position because she failed to “be political,” to assess the threat to her division and career, and to manage her superiors.
www.gsia.cmu.edu /45-792/Case1Example1.doc   (1023 words)

  
 Who Made America? | Innovators | Donna Dubinsky
Dubinsky had grown up in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the daughter of a scrap-metal broker, and was pleased to be working in manufacturing.
In 1992, Dubinsky co-founded Palm Inc. Her partner, Jeff Hawkins, had shown her a hand-held electronic organizer he had prototyped, and she saw the future, though many others had dismissed such a product.
As co-founder and chief executive officer of the new company, Dubinsky oversaw a boom in hand-held computing devices and became one of the most important businesswomen in the United States.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/dubinsky_hi.html   (494 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Donna Dubinsky, a strong minded, talented manager who fiercely protected those under her and was not intimidated by upper management, was not in Steve Jobs’s favored camp.
Recommendations Many of her problems could have been mitigated had Dubinsky formed a stronger social network, had taken a more creative approach to dismantling what she thought was a bad idea, and envisioned a new position for herself and her team in light of the changes.
In conclusion, Donna Dubinsky’s was in many ways a victim of a hostile corporate environment, but could have taken steps to protect her position while steering the company towards the most effective solution.
www.gsia.cmu.edu /45-792/Case1Example2.doc   (1134 words)

  
 Computer History Museum - Lectures - Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky co-founded Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in July 1998 to create a new breed of handheld computers for consumers.
When Dubinsky first joined Hawkins at Palm Computing in 1992, shortly after the company was founded, she brought with her more than 10 years of marketing and logistics experience from Apple and Claris.
In addition to her position as CEO of Handspring, Dubinsky currently serves as a director of Intuit Corporation and is a Trustee of Computer History Museum.
www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/palmpilot_02262002/dubinsky   (159 words)

  
 Features - Handspring: the Springboard has served its purpose, and will die.
Donna Dubinsky, founder first of Palm, and then of Handspring,showed off the new colour Treo in London this evening - and admitted that the days of the Handspring proprietary plug-in, or "springboard" module, were probably over, in an informal discussion this evening with Newswireless Net.
Donna Dubinsky has a reputation as one of the more technically-backed CEOs in Silicon Valley these days, and is currently involved in a real nerd-project - the creation of the Silicon Valley Computer Museum.
Dubinsky isn't giving anything away; but it's easy to read her cautious agreement with the accusation that it was possibly a mistake to leave Bluetooth out of the design.
www.kewney.co.uk /articles/020625-donna.html   (1243 words)

  
 Wired News: How Handspring CEO Vaults Ahead
The way Donna Dubinsky flashed her company's latest product -- a hand-sized, personal digital assistant that flips open into a cellular phone -- she might have been in an alley, wearing a trench coat and pushing dirty French postcards.
"Donna is one of the smartest people on this planet," said longtime friend and Intuit chairman Bill Campbell.
Dubinsky and Hawkins decided to leave Palm after the company that owned it, U.S. Robotics, was acquired by 3Com.
www.wired.com /news/exec/1,47777-1.html   (1093 words)

  
 CEO Donna Dubinsky
Wellesley, Mass…Serial entrepreneur and Handspring CEO and co-founder Donna Dubinski will present her "Lessons from an Entrepreneur" on Thursday, May 1, 2003, 4:30 p.m., Olin Hall, hosted by The Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College.
Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins introduced the original PalmPilot in February 1996.
Dubinsky and Hawkins co-founded Handspring in July 1998.
www3.babson.edu /Newsroom/Releases/dubinsky.cfm   (146 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Donna Dubinsky, President and CEO of Handspring - Neil Cavuto | Your World
Donna is the president and CEO of Handspring.
DUBINSKY: Their products are pretty substantially different than this one, I think, if you look at them and see their form factor and the functionality that they include.
DUBINSKY: It'll be shipping just after the 1st of the year, and the people who have looked closely at the product see some substantial differences between them.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,38257,00.html   (837 words)

  
 Face Time: Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky is half of the duo that turned the PalmPilot into the fastest-selling consumer product in history.
Donna Dubinsky is worldly enough that in her first job, she did spreadsheets for a bank -- by hand.
Dubinsky spoke to Fast Company in her second-floor office at Handspring's headquarters in Mountain View, California.
www.fastcompany.com /online/42/facetime.html   (740 words)

  
 Business Week Frontier
Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins built a company from scratch in a few years on a handheld computer so revered that users have created rings of over 150 interconnected Web sites devoted to it -- the PalmPilot.
Beyond that, Hawkins and Dubinsky are tight-lipped about the new venture, which is temporarily incorporated under the name JD Technology Inc. "The success of the new company will depend on the continued success of the Palm," says Hawkins cryptically.
But no one is discounting Dubinsky and Hawkins as competitors, with their fortuitous mix of personalities and experience.
www.businessweek.com /smallbiz/news/coladvice/reallife/rl980828.htm   (1249 words)

  
 Top Tech Execs: Hawkins, Dubinsky - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dubinsky and Hawkins' year-old company, Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people), will sell 1 million Visor handhelds--it's like a Pilot but cheaper and has an expansion module--in only its first year of existence.
Dubinsky says she and Hawkins weren't surprised that the Palm platform has exploded this way, since it was the first handheld computer to meet the desired criteria.
Dubinsky and Hawkins were anxious to run an independent company again but 3Com management refused to spin off the Palm division.
www.forbes.com /2000/12/05/1205topexecsdubinsky.html   (835 words)

  
 Wired News: Dubinsky's 15 Lessons For Success
Donna Dubinsky has put the Midas touch on just about every place she's worked, including Claris, Palm and Handspring, where she's currently the CEO.
When Dubinsky met Jeff Hawkins, the other founder of Handspring, 10 years ago, she liked that he had business relationships with big companies like Radio Shack and Casio.
Dubinsky spends her spare time with her husband and her 10-year-old adopted daughter from Russia.
www.wired.com /news/holidays/0,1882,47844,00.html   (696 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: The TSC Streetside Chat: Handspring CEO Donna Dubinsky
TheStreet.com sat down with Handspring CEO Donna Dubinsky to ask her about the travails of the June quarter and what lies ahead for the handheld industry.
Donna Dubinsky: From a software and UI [user interface] perspective, we've learned how to use a display as the UI for a phone -- what works well and what doesn't work well, what improvements are needed.
Donna Dubinsky: Right now the margins are negatively impacted by a couple of things.
www.thestreet.com /_cnet/comment/streetsidechat/1509882.html   (2061 words)

  
 treocentral.com >> Stories >> Commentary >> Donna Dubinsky Interview
The key comments that Dubinsky made were mainly about what they learned from the first Treo, and than what they are going ot do in the future.
Dubinsky noted how the Treo 600 is still an earlyadoptors device, and that it is stil high priced.
Dubinsky replied listing all the features that our baord members want (802.11/bluetooth/better camera/better screen), but the consensus in the interview was that it would make the price to high.
www.treocentral.com /content/Stories/277-1.htm   (337 words)

  
 Palm Founders To Return Home
Dubinsky's struggling company, Handspring, and taking them back as chief technology officer and board member, respectively, proves that you can return to the place you once called home, provided the timing's right.
Dubinsky and its current president and chief operating officer Ed Colligan, has both the products -- its Treo line of 'communicators' combine cell phone and PDA capabilities -- and the know-how.
Dubinsky and they lobbied CEO Eric Benhamou to spin-out Palm as a separate company.
www.brighthand.com /article/Palm_Handspring_History   (621 words)

  
 Palm Founders Start AI Company - Hardware News by InformationWeek
Jeff Hawkins' and Donna Dubinsky's new company aims to use theories about how the brain works to develop new types of problem-solving computers.
Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, founders of the original Palm Computing, said Thursday they have founded a new company that it claims uses research into how the brain works to provide more powerful computing capabilities.
Dubinsky, who previously served as CEO of both Palm Computing and, later, Handspring, will be CEO of Numenta.
www.informationweek.com /hardware/desktop/159907062   (335 words)

  
 Chapter 57.  HOW WE GOT STARTED - Donna Dubinsky
Dubinsky repeated herself in 1998, when she and Hawkins left Palm -- which by then had become a division of 3Com -- to start Handspring Inc. Apparently running a small division within such a large company wasn't enough for the entrepreneurially minded 47-year-old.
Unlike her Harvard MBA classmates, Dubinsky swore off white-shoe firms and took a $30,000-a-year customer-service job at Apple instead.
I do these things called Dine With Donna, where I get groups of employees together -- sort of a group of a dozen or so -- and get wonderful information about what the real issues are and what's going on in the company.
www.angelfire.com /extreme4/success1/ch57.html   (2509 words)

  
 Think like Donna Dubinsky - Business Filter - The Boston Globe
Source: Babson College In her commencement address this weekend, Donna Dubinsky encouraged Babson College MBA grads to think beyond the...
In her commencement address this weekend, Donna Dubinsky encouraged Babson College MBA grads to think beyond the obvious.
Dubinsky, the former CEO of Palm Computing and Handspring said when Palm first launched it had little competition.
www.boston.com /business/blog/filter/2006/05/think_like_donn_1.html   (173 words)

  
 Q & A: Donna Dubinsky
She was one of the brains behind the Pilot, the standard-setting personal digital assistant (or PDA, as it is commonly called) that found a place in the hearts of consumers more quickly than camcorders, personal computers, or cell phones.
In the Palm, Dubinsky and her colleagues created a sleek, portable tool that can be “synced” with a desktop computer to store information such as addresses, appointments, and e-mail.
Dubinsky, however, remains vigilant: “Many companies are interested in this marketspace,” she observes, “so we have a wide array of competitors to keep an eye on.”
www.alumni.hbs.edu /bulletin/2001/june/qanda.html   (1044 words)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar
In 2005, Dubinsky and Hawkins founded their present firm, Numenta, a technology development firm that is creating a new computer memory system modeled after the human brain's neocortex.
Dubinsky also serves as a director of Intuit Corporation, which develops business and financial software for small businesses, and as a trustee of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute.
"Donna Dubinsky is recognized as one of the most successful, cutting-edge entrepreneurs of the IT industry," Levin said.
www.yale.edu /opa/v34.n16/story1.html   (1246 words)

  
 VisorCentral.com - [Long] Trip report: Donna Dubinsky presentation at MacWorld Expo
Dubinsky thanked everyone for coming, and for being a part of the volunteer corp of user group members who take time out of their schedules to be involved.
Dubinsky said Handspring is the leading provider of handheld computing products, providing both "thought leadership" and "product leadership" in the field, as evidenced by Handspring's having just achieved their shipping out their one millionth Visor this month.
Dubinsky as we moved onward to the next portion of the reception.
discussion.visorcentral.com /vcforum/printthread.php?threadid=10757   (1657 words)

  
 Pathway to Abounding Inspirations
Donna Dubinsky: Mother of the Palm, Co-Inventor of the PalmPilot and Co-Founder of Handspring
Dubinsky repeated herself in 1998, when she and Hawkins left Palm, which by then was a division of 3Com, to start Handspring Inc. Apparently running a small division within such a large company wasn't enough for this entrepreneurially minded woman.
Donna recently teamed up with her original partner Jeff Hawkins to start a new company.
www.jadcommunications.com /newsletters/jad_jul_2005.htm   (2627 words)

  
 Salon 21st | How Palm beat Microsoft
Dubinsky and Hawkins founded Palm in 1992, one of the myriad start-ups launched to fuel an anticipated boom in pen-based personal digital assistants.
Moreover, says Dubinsky, it shrewdly sued in Europe, "because the laws in Europe are somewhat quicker to resolve these issues than in the U.S., where they're quite protracted.
Today, says Dubinsky, the Pilot enjoys 80 percent market share in the personal information manager market, and 3Com is still having trouble manufacturing enough Palm IIIs to keep up with demand -- although Palm hasn't announced sales figures since the first million units.
archive.salon.com /21st/feature/1998/09/17feature.html   (2312 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
Handspring CEO Donna Dubinsky is no stranger to the world of personal computing.
Despite all of her success, Dubinsky is still taking a hands-on approach to personal computing with her new company.
It has a marketing whiz, a technology wizard, and Donna Dubinsky, the glue that holds it all together and inspires her team to take big steps.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0104/08/bun.00.html   (3297 words)

  
 Starting May 22, 2001
The main speaker was Donna Dubinsky, founder and CEO of Handspring.
Donna Dubinsky talking and beaming with Bob Frankston, then taking his picture with her Visor
Donna asked who could show her their Visor.
danbricklin.com /log/2001_05_22.htm   (1809 words)

  
 DONNA DUBINSKY - HANDSPRING INC (HAND): TWST
Dubinsky: Handspring was founded in July 1998 by Jeff Hawkins, Ed Colligan and myself, to create a great new company focused in the area of hand-held computing.
Dubinsky: You'll continue to see real growth in just the general hand-held computing area, more and more applications will be developed, and more and more people will discover the power of these devices.
In addition to that, you'll see a trend toward wireless capabilities, where more of that will either be added as modular functionality, or integrated into these devices, such that people will have always-on communications capability with them.
www.twst.com /notes/articles/naf210.html   (353 words)

  
 View: Palm pioneers come full circle - infoSync World
As handheld pioneers Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins are on their way back to Palm, Jørgen Sundgot lends thought to the past, present and future of the Palmoconomy.
For Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, who founded both Palm and Handspring, the acquisition will represent the coming of a full circle - and begs the question of why, and not least what kind of an impact it will have on the market in the time ahead.
The prelude to the upcoming acquisition commenced in 1998, when Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins left their positions with the handheld market leader they had founded in 1992 in exchange for a fresh start.
www.infosyncworld.com /news/n/3667.html   (529 words)

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