electronics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
News

Ink

Book Review: Learning from Bill, Andy, and Steve The tuxedoed trio looking out from the cover of Harvard Business School Professor David B. Yoffie’s new book on strategy can be seen as the modern-day Mount Rushmore of business. At their peaks, Microsoft’s Bill Gates,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

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

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

translated to another—he hit upon a pair of tweezers that was being used on the assembly line of an electronics company. He was able to adapt these tweezers to the more medical use of removing splinters. Time passed and the idea took... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

When Stephen Kaufman took the helm at Arrow Electronics in 1982, it was de rigueur for CEOs to sit on the boards of several other companies in addition to running their own. Back then, serving as a board member didn't require much of a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

characterizing these networks, our primary measure is "hierarchy," defined as the degree to which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

than doubling the unit cost of the aircraft. The amount of electronics equipment in a modern fighter aircraft is astounding. An Air Force general captured the essential change: "In the past, the Air Force used to buy airplanes and... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

complex organizational patterns that emerge in lieu of genuine mirroring when actionable transparency allows people to "break the mirror." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-058.pdf Criminal Recidivism after Prison and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a three-month period... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

question was how to do it. At Indian electronics firm HCL Technologies, incoming CEO Vineet Nayar inherited a once-great technology company that had lost its way by the time he took over in 2005. The company had steadily lost market share... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

bridge-building tool to elicit cooperation from powerful divisional managers in previously unaffiliated divisions. Cases & Course MaterialsAdvanced Electron Beams Harvard Business School Case 608-083 No abstract is available at this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2004
News

Toy Story

kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

skills, and engineering capabilities" resulting from the clustering of universities, suppliers, and manufacturers in industries such as biotechnology, electronic components, and semiconductors in which rapidly-developing innovations... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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. View Details

Citation

Purchase

17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

services to independent retailers. Amazon also offered software and cloud storage services, online video streaming, and its own line of electronic hardware (mobile, e-reader, and smart television products). In addition, Amazon published... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

firm was confident that it and the current management could work together to revamp the fortunes of China's leading electronic retailer. However, it did not anticipate the power Huang had behind bars. As the majority shareholder, Huang... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

than luxurious prizes like electronics or trips. It’s even better if a gift feels personalized. A manager could give an employee who enjoys fitness activities a gift card to a store that sells workout clothes, while giving another worker... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Drives Biology by W. David Lee (AMP 108, 1991), with Jeffrey Drazen, Phillip A. Sharp, and Robert S. Langer (MIT Press) Investigating a series of major biological discoveries that range from pasteurization to electron microscopy, Lee... View Details

December 2022
Supplement

Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes

Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies,... View Details