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- May 1987 (Revised December 1987)
- Supplement
Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (A), (B), and (C), Video Viewing Guide
By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine
Keywords: Computer Industry
- February 1987 (Revised January 1991)
- Teaching Note
Peripheral Products Co.: The ""Gray Market"" for Disk Drives, Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-586-124). View Details
Keywords: Computer Industry
- April 1986 (Revised May 1988)
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B)
By: Kim B. Clark
Dissects the manufacturing process and procedures of a high-end computer manufacturer. The main issue is how to introduce new products and ramp them up quickly in a competitive environment where time-to-market is crucial. Focuses on engineering change orders--how they... View Details
- April 1986 (Revised June 1986)
- Case
Mexico and the Microcomputers (A)
By: James E. Austin and Dennis J. Encarnation III
- April 1986 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A)
Sun Microsystems managers must decide whether to launch a new product into manufacturing. Teaching objectives include: 1) an analysis of the competitive environment, 2) examination of technological choices, 3) understanding of the new product development process, and... View Details
- September 1985 (Revised January 1986)
- Case
Peter Wendell
Contains a description of a decision confronting an employee of IBM in late 1981. Should he leave IBM to become head of a new venture capital fund which will specialize in technology investments? The case is designed to expose students to the nature of the opportunity... View Details
- May 1985 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Comdisco, Inc.
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Rita J. Seymour
Comdisco, the largest independent dealer and lessor of computers and peripheral equipment, needs financing in order to match its market's growth of 20-30% per year. The company has access to two types of risk capital, but there are substantial costs and risks... View Details
- April 1985 (Revised October 1988)
- Case
Everest Computer (A): The Development of the SuperMOS Process
By: Kim B. Clark
The research and development lab at the semiconductor development and manufacturing facility of a computer systems manufacturer has embarked on a radically improved semiconductor manufacturing process for application in a new computer system. The case offers a detailed... View Details
- February 1985 (Revised December 1988)
- Teaching Note
Stratus Computer (TN)
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Teaching Note for (9-682-030). View Details
Keywords: Computer Industry
- January 1985 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Lotus Development Corp.
Contains a description of the history and venture capital financing of Lotus Development. Focuses on issues related to the possible terms of investment in Lotus by a major venture capital firm. The pedagogic objectives in the case are: to explore the elements of the... View Details
- January 1985 (Revised November 1985)
- Background Note
Note on the Microcomputer Software Industry--January 1982
Contains a history of the microcomputer software industry from the mid-1970s through early 1982. During that period growth was explosive. Many new companies were formed. However, the eventual structure of the industry was not yet clear. No truly dominant firms had... View Details
- February 1984
- Case
Systems Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (Abridged)
By: William E. Fruhan Jr. and Thomas R. Piper
- January 1984
- Article
A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Pricing Strategies for Dynamic Environments
By: Robert J. Dolan
Researchers of the strategic implications of the well-known demand (e.g., adoption and diffusion) and supply (e.g., experience effects) dynamics have typically sought analytical solutions. Their success in this has been achieved partly by limiting the richness of the... View Details
- November 1983 (Revised September 1984)
- Case
Computervision vs. Automatix (A)
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
- May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
- Case
Technical Data Corp.
Describes a decision confronting the president of a small company about selling some or all of the shares in his company to another firm. Technical Data Corp. provides analytical services to professional bond market traders over a system of computer terminals operated... View Details
- March 1983 (Revised April 1987)
- Teaching Note
McGraw-Hill Book Co.: Micro Computer Resource Center, Teaching Note
- December 1982
- Case
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.
By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Computer Industry
- August 1981 (Revised June 1986)
- Case