Electronics Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2006 (Revised August 2013)
Teaching Note

Hexcel Turnaround -- 2001 (A), (B) and (C)

This is the teaching note that is supplemental to the Hexcel Cases A, B & C. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Negotiation; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Change Management; Crisis Management; Borrowing and Debt; Aerospace Industry; Aerospace Industry; United States

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September 2005 (Revised February 2007)
Supplement

Angels and Devils: Best Buy's New Customer Approach (B)

By: Anita Elberse, John T. Gourville and Das Narayandas

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry

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July 1998 (Revised January 2009)
Case

Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan West

Display Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is a new joint venture between Toshiba and IBM Japan that is manufacturing the most advanced form of flat panel displays. With success in achieving significant production volumes, DTI has been asked to double its output as quickly as... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Production; Outcome or Result; Performance Capacity; Strategy; Hardware; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan

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September 1991 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Allegheny Ludlum: Research and Engineering Resource Allocation

By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Geoffrey K. Gill

Allegheny Ludlum's (AL) technical vice president, Jack Shilling faces the task of determining how to allocate engineering resources among five areas of technology. AL's technology organization has great strategic importance and has therefore been untouched by the... View Details

Keywords: Engineering; Resource Allocation; Information Technology; Policy; Leadership; Decisions; Competency and Skills; Projects; Joint Ventures; Strategy; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry

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May 1973 (Revised June 1976)
Case

Teradyne, Inc. (A)

By: Robert H. Hayes

Keywords: Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry

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April 1998
Teaching Note

WESCO Distribution, Inc. TN

By: Das Narayandas

Teaching Note for (9-598-021). View Details

Keywords: Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry

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April 1997
Teaching Note

Tweeter etc. TN

By: John T. Gourville and George Wu

Teaching Note for (9-597-028). View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry; Retail Industry

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January 1989
Teaching Note

The World VCR Industry, Teaching Note

By: David B. Yoffie

Teaching Note for (9-387-098). View Details

Keywords: Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Japan

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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

01 Mar 2014
News

Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for... View Details

Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Telecommunications; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2012
News

Wang Papers to HBS

Important corporate records from Wang Laboratories and personal papers of the company's late founder and CEO, Dr. An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology invented by Dr. Wang helped... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Mar 2004
News

Ron Shaich’s Café Society

sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food industry was... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

industry do better, all else being equal, when they are able to harness creativity." During the course of her research, Amabile has discovered several factors that influence creativity in organizations, factors that either inspire or... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

01 Jun 2011
News

Downtime

stack (next to my bed): The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuro-scientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran; The World Without Us by Alan Weisman; and Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison. Do you use an View Details

Keywords: fiction; Christianity

10 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 10

Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence From the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over year from 2007 to 2013. As digital technologies increasingly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

deliver this extra-added value service." Electronic Health Records Promoted In 2014, health care spending in the United States exceeded $3 trillion and was expected to reach $4.5 trillion by 2020. To reduce health care costs and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

27 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

Product Manager managing Hewlett-Packard's future platforms, Noa knew she loved technology but felt as she was still not pursuing her passion from an industry perspective. Yet for Noa, HBS wasn’t a place for taking aim at her next... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports