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- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
operations? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 905-409 The Electronic Product Code: Future Impact on the Global Food System The Electronic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
- Teaching Note
X: The Foghorn Decision
By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060.
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Keywords:
Alternative Energy;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Climate Change;
Green Technology;
Selection and Staffing;
Knowledge;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Science-Based Business;
Innovation and Invention;
Auto Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Technology Industry
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and chemicals industries. Without revealing the focus of their study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects requiring creative effort) to fill out...
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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
electronic media that facilitate and record such interactions, this interest has grown sharply in the business world as well. In this paper, we provide a brief summary of what is known so far, discuss the main challenges for researchers...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
in our old electronic medical records, we had never asked questions about swallowing. You couldn't even tell from those records when and whether a patient was eating normally, which of course is important. So all of this gets to the fact...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Founded in 1997 to revolutionize the mundane printing business with new display technology, the company had its eye on multibillion-dollar markets like electronic newspapers. But to realize that vision, its scientists had to get into...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable. While predictions vary widely as...
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by Susan Young
- January–February 2013
- Article
Will Our Partner Steal Our IP?
By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
This fictionalized case looks at the spillover of intellectual property (IP) from a critical component supplier to an original equipment maker in the Chinese auto industry. What are the challenges to holding on to proprietary know-how when a customer wishes to use...
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Keywords:
Intellectual Property Management;
Intellectual Property;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
China;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., and Jyun-Cheng Wang. "Will Our Partner Steal Our IP?" Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2013): 137–139.
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
Apple's Core (TN)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [809063].
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- July 1990 (Revised October 1997)
- Case
Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Explores how a cost system can help support a firm's decision to change strategies. In the process, the students are introduced to a simple activity-based cost system. Siemens Electric Motor Works found itself facing an increasingly competitive environment and so made...
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Cost Accounting;
Cost;
Adoption;
Cost vs Benefits;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Production;
Business Strategy;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 191-006, July 1990. (Revised October 1997.)
- December 2006 (Revised August 2013)
- Teaching Note
Hexcel Turnaround -- 2001 (A), (B) and (C)
By: Paul W. Marshall
This is the teaching note that is supplemental to the Hexcel Cases A, B & C.
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- September 2005 (Revised February 2007)
- Supplement
Angels and Devils: Best Buy's New Customer Approach (B)
Elberse, Anita, John T. Gourville, and Das Narayandas. "Angels and Devils: Best Buy's New Customer Approach (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 506-008, September 2005. (Revised February 2007.)
- July 1998 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan West
Display Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is a new joint venture between Toshiba and IBM Japan that is manufacturing the most advanced form of flat panel displays. With success in achieving significant production volumes, DTI has been asked to double its output as quickly as...
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Joint Ventures;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Leadership Style;
Production;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Capacity;
Strategy;
Hardware;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Japan
Bowen, H. Kent, and Jonathan West. "Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 699-006, July 1998. (Revised January 2009.)
- September 1991 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Allegheny Ludlum: Research and Engineering Resource Allocation
By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Geoffrey K. Gill
Allegheny Ludlum's (AL) technical vice president, Jack Shilling faces the task of determining how to allocate engineering resources among five areas of technology. AL's technology organization has great strategic importance and has therefore been untouched by the...
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Keywords:
Engineering;
Resource Allocation;
Information Technology;
Policy;
Leadership;
Decisions;
Competency and Skills;
Projects;
Joint Ventures;
Strategy;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry
Leonard-Barton, Dorothy, and Geoffrey K. Gill. "Allegheny Ludlum: Research and Engineering Resource Allocation." Harvard Business School Case 692-027, September 1991. (Revised January 1992.)
- May 1973 (Revised June 1976)
- Case
Teradyne, Inc. (A)
By: Robert H. Hayes
Hayes, Robert H. "Teradyne, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 673-111, May 1973. (Revised June 1976.)
- April 1998
- Teaching Note
WESCO Distribution, Inc. TN
By: Das Narayandas
Teaching Note for (9-598-021).
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- April 1997
- Teaching Note
Tweeter etc. TN
By: John T. Gourville and George Wu
Teaching Note for (9-597-028).
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- January 1989
- Teaching Note
The World VCR Industry, Teaching Note
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-387-098).
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- Summer 2018
- Article
Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating
By: Willy C. Shih
Knowledge embedded within state-of-the-art production and design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through...
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Keywords:
Product Design;
Product Commercialization;
Product Development;
Product Development Strategy;
Production;
Manufacturing Tools;
Manufacturing;
Manufacturing Industry;
Engineering;
Globalization;
Goods and Commodities;
Knowledge;
Commercialization;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Technology Adoption;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
North America;
Asia
Shih, Willy C. "Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating." Art. 59420. MIT Sloan Management Review 59, no. 4 (Summer 2018): 53–58.
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
lines that matched needs and trip-drivers with impulses and wants within their stores. If shoppers can get their primary purchases online, brick-and-mortar retailers can't sell them the rest. For example, if customers cease buying their high-ticket View Details