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  • April 2011
  • Case

Samsung and Google TV

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Prithvi Raj and Crystal Jean Marrie
This case describes Samsung's decision on how to pursue the growing market opportunity for internet-connected televisions, which enable consumers to access a range of web-based content including basic information (e.g. stock quotes, weather, news headlines, RSS feeds,... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Electronics Industry
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    Joseph L. Bower

    JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

    Keywords: electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics
    • Web

    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    before it went public. He then led Open Market's expansion into business-to-business applications. In 1999, he founded and ran PurchasingCenter.com, a "My Yahoo" portal for industrial purchasing agents who purchase $2-$10 million of... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    appropriately staged over a number of years. This situation could be said to characterize the mainframe computer industry during the 1980s, when business customers moved away from mainframes towards UNIX-based "open... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
    • Web

    Request the Data - Leadership

    only one copy of the Excel spreadsheet for non-commercial use. I will only provide portions of the information in print or by secure electronic means to a limited number of individuals within my organization. I agree to include the... View Details
    • May 2015 (Revised October 2015)
    • Case

    Apple Inc. in 2015

    By: David B. Yoffie and Eric Baldwin
    At the end of 2014, Apple Inc. recorded the most profitable quarter of any firm in history, and its market capitalization soon topped $700 billion. 'Apple Inc in 2015' explores the history of Apple, its successes under Jobs, its continued growth under Tim Cook, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Innovation; Market Positioning; Marketing Implementation; Planning; Products; Strategy; Strategic Positioning; Technology; Information Technology; Strategic Planning; Product Positioning; Leadership; Communication; Competitive Advantage; Product; Innovation and Invention; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
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    • November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh, F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, Andrew Katz, Michael Morgan and David LaBorde
    The Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare case presents one hospital system's efforts to implement computerized provider order entry (CPOE) across all of its hospitals and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues such as standardization of care,... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Management Systems; Standards; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry
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    • 12 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

    vertical chain and therefore come up with superior products. One tradeoff would therefore seem to be between large market share and high quality, of which the Microsoft/Apple comparison is a good illustration. Sony illustrates another dimension of vertical integration.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • 30 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

    break. These somewhat captive consumers will gladly pay this price to avoid leaving the store empty-handed. Moreover, rivals will likely follow suit. Low-end retailers often don’t bother Certain types of retailers are especially inclined to self-match, including those... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • 20 Apr 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

    that no one understood what it did was brilliant," says Yoffie. "That changed the entire structure of the semiconductor industry forever." “They were all in many ways highly imperfect leaders. We didn't want to idealize... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer
    • 19 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

    joining HBS. Audrey Atencio (MBA 2024, Section G), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Piva Capital Piva is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm ($500mm AUM) investing in visionary entrepreneurs who are solving the world's critical problems in the View Details
    • 31 May 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

    The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics

      Walter A. Friedman

      Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer.  He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details

      Keywords: electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics
      • Web

      Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

      Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. Susanna Gallani : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2022 Conference of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, Technology Section,... View Details

        F. Warren McFarlan

        Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

        Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
        • February 2017 (Revised November 2021)
        • Case

        Digitalization at Siemens

        By: David J. Collis and Tonia Junker
        The case discusses the digitalization strategy of Siemens AG, a German-based company operating in manufacturing and electronics. The increasing impact of digital technologies on all of its business units had prompted CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to put digitalization at... View Details
        Keywords: Company Management; Digital Technologies; Corporate Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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        • April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
        • Case

        Apple's iPhone Revolution: Pioneering the Circular Economy

        By: George Serafeim
        When asked to identify an example of a circular economy business model that has generated billions in revenues for a company, ChatGPT, the famous chatbot that in 2022 rocked the world with its ability to perform a variety of tasks, immediately identified and... View Details
        Keywords: Iphone; Smartphone; Waste Management; Recycling; Innovation; Product Upgrade; Product Life Cycle; Sustainability; Climate Impact; Digital; Business Model Innovation; Climate Change; Information Technology; Business Model; Electronics Industry; Information Technology Industry
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        • August 2023
        • Case

        BYD, China, and Global Electric Vehicle Rivalry

        By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Max Hancock
        In 2023, BYD, a Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker, surpassed Tesla to become the world's best-selling EV brand. BYD began selling mobile phone batteries in 1995, acquired a license to sell vehicles in 2002, and spent two decades building its EV brand, growing its... View Details
        Keywords: Competition; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Vertical Integration; Market Participation; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; China; Europe; United States; Japan; South Korea
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        • 01 Sep 2007
        • News

        Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

        examined four U.S. industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of View Details
        • 16 Feb 2010
        • Research & Ideas

        The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

        rather than focus simply on products and sales. And Gulati's research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector. "I see the move... View Details
        Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products