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  • 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
Keywords: Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; China; Taiwan
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  • 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
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  • 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
Keywords: Bicycle Industry; Taiwan; Cambridge
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  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

industry moved from steel tubes to carbon fiber ones, the cluster took hold in Taiwan because that's where the expertise is in fabricating and molding carbon fiber. "If the prices go up there, it's not like... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:Journal of East Asian Studies (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2014
  • Case

MediaTek: From Feature Phones to Smartphones

By: Willy Shih
MediaTek was the third largest fabless semiconductor company in the world, and was the second largest supplier of the silicon microchips that powered mobile phones. Yet as the company's chairman reflected on his R&D strategy, he wondered why it hadn't moved faster on... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology Adoption; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China; Taiwan
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  • June 2017
  • Case

AKB48: Going Global? (A)

By: Juan Alcácer, Kotaro Sasamoto, Tee Chayakul and Mayuka Yamazaki
After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer of the Japanese female singing group AKB48 evaluates market opportunities overseas for his artistic creation. This case introduces the business model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what... View Details
Keywords: Brand Building; Brand Extension; Culture-based Products; Global Products; Differentiation; Intellectual Property; International Business; Local Products; Strategy; Value Capture; Market Entry and Exit; Music Entertainment; Business Model; Global Strategy; Global Range; Brands and Branding; Value Creation; Expansion; Music Industry; Japan; China; Indonesia; Taiwan; Philippines; Thailand; South Korea
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  • 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
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find that entrepreneurial activity is higher in industries that have a large share of foreign firms in vertically linked industries. Second, we find that entrepreneurial activity in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short, accessible essays about Chinese identity, culture, environment, society, history, or policy. Can China’s economic growth continue apace? Can China embrace the sacrifices required for a clean environment? Will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608053 Dell Computers (B): The Transition Harvard Business School Supplement 607-081 The case presents the outcome of the (A) case and explores challenges in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

discriminate, and that piracy may even result in higher profits to Microsoft! Finally, the paper investigates the societal welfare consequences of OSS availability by comparing different industry structures (monopoly and duopoly). We find... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 09 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

was "The PC is it" in the late 1980s and that's what made Intel, Intel. Get everybody behind it. Another part of Intel culture: We argue specifically over principles or over proposals or over issues, not over the people who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

M. Howitt Publication:In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zürich, Switzerland: Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010 Abstract Societies face a wide array of significant hazards—ranging from the possibility of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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