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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
of the many lifelong learning opportunities available through HBS, including the evolving alumni electronic network, executive education courses, HBS Publishing offerings, and the annual Global Alumni Conference, which next year will take...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Contacts with Professors This list considers many of the more traditional methods of interaction. I'd also like to highlight some recent developments in an area that has been growing significantly in the last few years at HBS: the HBS View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Sweden’s Northvolt Electric Battery Maker: A Startup with a Mission
- October 1982
- Supplement
Fiber-Optics Industry (E)
By: Michael E. Porter and John R. Wells
Porter, Michael E., and John R. Wells. "Fiber-Optics Industry (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-045, October 1982.
- October 1982
- Supplement
Fiber-Optics Industry (D)
By: Michael E. Porter and John R. Wells
Porter, Michael E., and John R. Wells. "Fiber-Optics Industry (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-044, October 1982.
- April 1999 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
By: Paul A. Gompers
Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students get experience using traditional discounted cash flow valuation and a real options...
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Keywords:
Valuation;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Capital Budgeting;
Corporate Finance;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones." Harvard Business School Case 299-004, April 1999. (Revised September 2001.)
- May 2008 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Chi Mei Optoelectronics
By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Ho Howard Yu
Chi Mei is a Taiwanese industrial group that makes a major diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Supply Chain;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Information Technology;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
China;
South Korea;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., Chintay Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Ho Howard Yu. "Chi Mei Optoelectronics." Harvard Business School Case 608-123, May 2008. (Revised December 2010.)
- June 2003
- Teaching Note
Competition Policy in the European Union and the Power of Microsoft (TN)
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for (9-701-043).
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- August 2001 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Operations at the Donner Company
By: H. Kent Bowen
A small manufacturer of circuit boards faces product and operations-management problems. This case analyzes the production capacity at various stages and examines bottlenecks and product flow decisions. A detailed look at the problems and a discussion of the tools and...
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- July 2000 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Gateway: Moving Beyond the Box
By: Frances X. Frei, Youngme E. Moon and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
Gateway has opened retail stores to differentiate itself from its competitors (e.g., Dell). Describes how the company has created an excellent service experience, but has struggled financially as a result.
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Keywords:
Transition;
Change Management;
Valuation;
Service Operations;
Service Delivery;
Distribution Channels;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States
Frei, Frances X., Youngme E. Moon, and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Gateway: Moving Beyond the Box." Harvard Business School Case 601-038, July 2000. (Revised May 2002.)
- September 1999
- Background Note
Revolution in the Communications Switching Industry
By: Jay O. Light, Lynda M. Applegate and Daniel J. Green
As data packet switches threatened the voice circuit switch industry in 1999, major switch and router vendors began paying high premiums to acquire venture-backed switch companies. This note explains what a switch is and suggests why large vendors might be so anxious...
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- June 1997
- Teaching Note
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (A) and (B) TN
By: Marco Iansiti
Teaching Note for (9-695-061) and (9-697-038).
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- October 1996 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
United Electric Controls
By: H. Kent Bowen, Jody H. Gittell and Sylvie Ryckebusch
United Electric Controls (UE) was a small, traditional family-owned manufacturing company when Dave Reis, the youngest member of the Reis family, took over the business. This case describes Reis's efforts to change UE's traditional work practices in order to make the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Family Business;
Production;
Business Strategy;
Human Resources;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Decisions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States
Bowen, H. Kent, Jody H. Gittell, and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "United Electric Controls." Harvard Business School Case 697-006, October 1996. (Revised December 1996.)
- July 1993 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
Peak Electronics: Vendor Relationship with the Ford Motor Co. (A)
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Peak Electronics: Vendor Relationship with the Ford Motor Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 594-006, July 1993. (Revised June 1994.)
- October 1989 (Revised May 1996)
- Case
Xerox Corp.: Leadership Through Quality (A)
By: Todd D. Jick and Leonard A. Schlesinger
Describes the "Leadership Through Quality" effort undertaken by Xerox in the 1980s. Includes the history of Xerox in the 1970s and its need to make major changes in quality by the 1980s. Most of the remainder of the case details the step-by-step process by which Xerox...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Strategic Planning;
Quality;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry
Jick, Todd D., and Leonard A. Schlesinger. "Xerox Corp.: Leadership Through Quality (A)." Harvard Business School Case 490-008, October 1989. (Revised May 1996.)
- March 1996 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Andy Chew at Siemens Nixdorf: Change from the Middle
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and John F. McGuire
Andy Chew, a British manager reassigned to Germany by a large German computer company, is in the middle of carrying out a project as a designated "change agent" in a program to reshape the culture toward one that is more entrepreneurial for success as a nimble global...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Culture;
Information Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Projects;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Germany
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and John F. McGuire. "Andy Chew at Siemens Nixdorf: Change from the Middle." Harvard Business School Case 396-204, March 1996. (Revised April 1996.)
- February 1991 (Revised April 1991)
- Case
Zenith and High-Definition Television--1990
By: Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, David B. Yoffie and Heather A. Hazard
Describes Zenith's strategy in HDTV and high resolution monitors. Includes overview of HDTV industry with profiles of major competitors worldwide and policies of U.S., Japanese, and European governments. Focuses on competition over standards setting, industrial policy,...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Standards;
Production;
Corporate Strategy;
Customization and Personalization;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry
Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin, David B. Yoffie, and Heather A. Hazard. "Zenith and High-Definition Television--1990." Harvard Business School Case 391-084, February 1991. (Revised April 1991.)
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
electronic health records. Lagace: Looking to the future, what other challenges, medical or otherwise, could open source innovation help with? LISH team: LISH has collaborated with elite scientific institutions for over a decade on...
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- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate...
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- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
lower-cost venues of care more capable that health care becomes affordable, not by expecting large hospitals to charge less. Q: Could you give an example of a technological innovation that you think will have great impact? A: The advantages of View Details