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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
innovations. Ceteris paribus, the share of resources spent on development of general innovations, increases with the stability of the market share of the industry leader. As market shares become less persistent, the model predicts an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
business today. What issues did you face when you returned to Hong Kong in 1972? When I returned, my friends told me, “We don’t know why you’ve come back. Hong Kong’s now too expensive. Our labor is too high, and Taiwan has taken all our... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
through successive stages of industry evolution. We then show how this strategy was used by Sun Microsystems against Apollo Computer in the 1980s and by Dell against Compaq and other personal computer makers in the 1990s. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 1999
- Teaching Note
Acer America: Development of the Aspire TN
Teaching Note for (9-399-011). View Details
- 2011
- Article
Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
By: Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu
In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between group size and incentives to contribute in the setting of Chinese Wikipedia, the Chinese language version of an online encyclopedia that relies entirely on voluntary contributions. The group at Chinese Wikipedia... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Sharing; Behavior; Satisfaction; Size; Government and Politics; Economics; Information Technology Industry; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Singapore
Zhang, Michael, and Feng Zhu. "Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia." American Economic Review 101, no. 4 (June 2011): 1601–1615.
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
was extraordinarily low,” he recalled. “The art of building something is very different from the art of being a good buyer. Not many entrepreneurs really end up making good VCs.” Maples, however, was undaunted. He was a self-described “child of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
government will lead to heightened tensions with the United States and allies such as Japan and Taiwan by 2020. What about Europe? The European Union poses a less immediate challenge, but a real one nonetheless. There is an element of the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America Globalizing Latin American Beauty By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article discusses the growth over time of the beauty industry in Latin America and its bias towards celebrating whiter rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
organization, and the role of the IS manager was to integrate them in support of the business's transaction processes. Then around 1980 we started to see the emergence of the microcomputer; for the next fifteen years or so, DIS reflected how microcomputers and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Global Company's China Strategy Harvard Business School Case 308-057 After fifty-five years in the semiconductor industry, Morris Chang, founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), was seeing a change. After... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
successful firms. Some firms have completely changed the competitive dynamics of their industries because of the kind of competitive advantage they've been able to gain in the supply chain. Wal-Mart, of course, is the obvious one. The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- October 2024
- Case
Nvidia
By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
This case study examines Nvidia's strategic pivot from gaming GPUs to becoming a leader in general-purpose computing and AI. It explores how Nvidia leveraged its GPU architecture to dominate the growing fields of data center acceleration and AI training, outpacing... View Details
- December 2012 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
AmTran Technology Ltd.
By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson
As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Technology Transitions; Analog; Digital; Television; TV; Flat-panel; ATSC; NTSC; Video; Global Strategy; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Product Design; Supply Chain; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Technology Adoption; Technology Platform; Electronics Industry; Taiwan; United States; Japan
Shih, Willy, Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Karen E. Robinson. "AmTran Technology Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 613-069, December 2012. (Revised March 2015.)
- August 1996
- Teaching Note
Montague Corporation (A) and (B) TN
By: Norman A. Berg and Judith Maas
Teaching Note for (9-395-037) and (9-395-143). View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
industries remain infinitely focused on creating and selling the next generation of our fast changing technologies, and thus we have not taken the time, effort, or collective resolve to develop a set of industry-wide electronic business... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
Yoffie added that in the near future, "we won't be talking about Internet companies as something distinct because the Net will be so integrated into everything we do." That integration, panelist Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal noted, will be hastened when... View Details