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Charles B. (Tex) Thornton

After making a name for himself at Ford and later at Hughes, Thornton left to start an electronics company. Litton Industries had its roots in electronics but the company became a huge conglomerate,... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

24 Apr 2014
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Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling

Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million tons of electronics discarded,... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration

HBS and Stanford University are teaming up to explore online executive management education. The new collaboration between these pioneers in electronic learning is designed to create a distribution platform for nondegree courses.... View Details

Keywords: HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Alumni Changing the World

Luciana Baigun

Luciana Baigun, MBA 2014, wants to revolutionize the landscape of cities around the world. At the electronic scooter company Bird, Baigun is putting her management skills at the service of others and the planet. View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

BRAILER: Aiming to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014. American health-care providers may use the best technology in the world, but when it comes to patient records, the system is an inefficient maze responsible... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

Eugene R. Olson

Olson continued Deluxe’s market dominance in check printing while laying the foundation for its electronic diversification and expansion. He oversaw the acquisition of businesses that produce computer forms and emboss and encode plastic... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Dan Bricklin Classroom, Aldrich Hall 108 | About

Dan Bricklin Classroom, Aldrich Hall 108 The Dan Bricklin Classroom, located inside Aldrich Hall , was named by the School in honor of alumnus and technology entrepreneur Dan Bricklin (MBA 1979), the co-developer of VisiCalc, one of the first View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Helping high achievers achieve even more

As cofounder of Summit Partners, E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) spurred economic growth and created jobs in a broad range of industries, from fiber optics to pathology laboratories, to electronics and semiconductor manufacturers. Established... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash

electronics thrown away globally every year into a sustainable source of metals for the technologies of tomorrow. BlueOak represents just the sort of fresh thinking that has marked Bradoo's relatively short but notable career path. At age... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; recycling; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

to better assess value at MD Anderson Cancer Center Creating proposed bundled payments for major disease types in order to meet a changing health care reimbursement landscape Fostering the better use of electronic medical records and... View Details

Earl H. Richardson

The inventor of the first electronic iron with the unique "Hotpoint" feature, Richardson is credited with laying the foundation for the billion-dollar household appliance industry. Hotpoint's irons were very successful in the... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

capabilities—that formed an industrial commons needed to produce a whole host of advanced, high-valued-added electronic products such as flat-panel displays, solid-state lighting, and solar PV. In this book, we will examine the dynamics... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

24 Apr 2014
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Multiple generations of computing

Palm Computing, with founder Jeff Hawkins, she introduced the PalmPilot, the first successful handheld computer. Under Dubinsky’s leadership it became the fastest-selling computer and consumer electronics product in history and created a... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Matthew Ross (MBA 2022) Cofounder and CEO, Trove Health 2022–2023 Blavatnik Fellow Concept: Trove is building the world’s largest longitudinal database of patients and their health information across geographies... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; data; technology; Blavatnik Fellowship

01 Mar 2004
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Liquid and Efficient

remains the world’s most liquid and most efficient marketplace. That may involve a greater degree of electronic trading, but that remains to be seen. I have a very open mind about this — we’ll see over the next couple of months what is... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Morton H. Meyerson

Meyerson is recognized as the operational and financial genius of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). During his CEO tenure, EDS grew from a $200 million consulting business into a $4 billion large-scale systems consulting enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Services

January 1978 (Revised February 1983)
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Polaroid-Kodak (B1)

By: Michael E. Porter

Describes additional events in battle between Polaroid and Kodak outlined in Polaroid-Kodak. Includes the competitive actions taken by the companies such as the introduction of customer rebates and bonus plans with dealers. Details the new products of each company and... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry

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Alco Holdings Limited

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Xin Chen

Keywords: Financing; Foreign Exchange; Consumer Products; Foreign Investment; International Finance; Electronics Industry; Hong Kong

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September 1986 (Revised July 2001)
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Eastern Electric Apparatus Repair Company (A)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Harry Gruner

As principals engaged in structuring leveraged buyouts for a well-capitalized risk arbitrage firm, Bob Meehan and George Schwartz are preparing to bid for the business and assets of a Westinghouse subsidiary. The case focuses on the value of the opportunity, methods of... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Bids and Bidding; Opportunities; Business Subsidiaries; Strategy; Valuation; Equity; Electronics Industry

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December 2014 (Revised November 2016)
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Dylan Pierce at Peninsula Industries

By: Karthik Ramanna

Peninsula Industries' U.S. country manager, Peter Lee, has a problem—his star hire, Dylan Pierce, is threatening to quit. Peninsula is a large Korean conglomerate multinational that has been keen to attract foreigners. Dylan was hired by Peter to work in Peninsula's... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Corporation; Multicultural Teams; Leadership; Diversity; Electronics Industry; Korean Peninsula; United States

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