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- November 2012 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet
By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
Days after Jerry Shen introduced a new tablet computer at the Consumer Electronics Show, a Google meeting convinced him to go with a lower price point and co-branding as the Nexus 7. While his company would have a premier position at launch, companies like Samsung... View Details
Keywords: Nexus; Google; ASUSTeK; Android; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Notebook Computers; ODM; Apple; Price Point; App Store; Ecosystem; Open Handset Alliance; Reference Design; iPad; EMS; Electronic Manufacturing Services; Smartphone; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Industry Structures; Product Design; Product Development; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Taiwan; United States
Shih, Willy C., and Jyun-Cheng Wang. "ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet." Harvard Business School Case 613-056, November 2012. (Revised May 2013.)
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
a negotiation, are likely to use opening-up improvisations. If you've hammered out the child-care schedule with your spouse for a particularly busy week, you've probably practiced an opening-up improvisation. Relational, substantive, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
issues, as in the preceding illustration of the need to integrate supply-side and demand-side perspectives in assessing the relative viability of globally standardized and locally customized business models. Second, I think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
(Princeton University Press, 2007). Within five years, business school faculties became specialized along traditional academic disciplines, with particular emphasis on economics and quantitative analysis. And that’s largely where they... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of shareholder power. The result is the imposition of ineffective, costly, or counter-productive... View Details
- Web
One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity
and Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer Terrill Drake . Brian Kenny: On September 23, 2020 Harvard Business School unveiled the action plan for racial equity, an ambitious plan to advance racial equity, both within and beyond the School.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
pitcher throws the ball. How much would you expect the race of the umpire and the pitcher to determine the outcome of the call? That's the question Christopher A. Parsons, Harvard Business School visiting associate professor in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data from 13 business units and 22 innovations, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
resources, or finance. By exploring the emergence and evolution of these positions, the authors examine the ways in which power at the apex of complex organizations is structured through roles and relationships, in response to diverse... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than face a life of regret, he acted... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
military social aide assigned to the White House under President Johnson. "While we weren't greatly accepted in Cambridge at that time," he recalls, "it wasn't uncommon to have a military background and to be at the Business School. The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Leaders, edited by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clark, 170-171. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2008 No abstract is available at this time. Cases & Course Materials Arcapita-2002 Harvard Business School Case 209-023 tIn 2002, Arcapita Bank,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
PublicationsCapitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business Authors:Joseph Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract The spread of capitalism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
today: the companies themselves. During that period, investor protection laws in Brazil were relatively weak—yet investors bought equity on a "massive scale," according to Harvard Business School professor Aldo Musacchio,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state. Bureaucratic norms are a critical component of state capacity that shape when and how public agencies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
impose " Sudheer Thaakur concurred: " in a world that is more complex and uncertain and ambiguous we should be promoting slow and deliberative thinking. Till we do that we will not be able to fully utilize the opportunity offered by (the) View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
year. Using Internet Data for Economic Research Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two categories. First, structured... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne