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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
period a small number of followers entered the new path. The inability of the British, French, Italian, and then German companies to compete with IBM's mainframes and the plug-compatibles in the 1970s and IBM and its PC clones in the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
Business School Case 706-496 Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share relative to the worldwide computer over the past few years. Will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210020/ The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Harvard Business School Case 610-003 When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
major DRAM memory chip makers like Samsung and Hynix in Korea, and Powerchip in Taiwan have already stopped quoting prices until they can assess the impact of the earthquake on their supply chains. Anisotropic conductive film is a key... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- October 2024 (Revised April 2025)
- 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
- 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1
paper we draw on two of the most important historical episodes in the history of the computing industry, the introduction of the PC and of the browser, to develop a third hypothesis. Both IBM and Microsoft, having been extremely... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
other? Chandler: Having invented color television in the 1950s but then fallen behind Japanese manufacturers in the following decade, RCA decided it had to move into something else. In 1967, it settled on computers, a product the company... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
additional millions of poor people to buy in. As prices have fallen, Asian brands such as Asus and Acer of Taiwan have gained share while IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo. “Critics of marketing tend to... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
School Case 406-118 General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Asian industrial cluster with global scope which has no participants or competitors in the West. The case can also be used to expose students to the global supply chain for key information technology components. Taiwan and Korea are today... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
technical variation that, over time, gets resolved, and we tend to see what has been called a "dominant design." I am interested in the interplay between that technical variation and cognitive variation as both manufacturers and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
theoretical explanation for workplace silence based on implicit theories of voice. Cases & Course MaterialsASUSTek Computer Inc. Eee PC (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-011 ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
to as "user-centered design." Yet, analysis of design-intensive manufacturers such as Alessi, Artemide and other leading Italian firms, show that their innovation process hardly starts from a close observation of user needs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
ingredient brand. It makes zero sales to end consumers, yet Intel built a consumer demand pull for its chips that required every PC manufacturer to incorporate them and to advertise Intel Inside on their... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
students to examine Suncor's strategic positioning and cost structure, and the challenges that the firm's leaders confront as of 2007. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708023 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.... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
performance. In this paper, I conduct one of the first evaluations to determine whether a voluntary management program that features an independent verification mechanism is achieving its ultimate objectives. Using a sample of thousands of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
student to chief executive officer also makes it difficult for device makers to segment the market as cleanly as, say, PC companies are able to do, DelBene said. "Companies are spending a lot of time trying to figure out where the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
Abstract This paper empirically investigates how market leadership influences firm propensity to adopt new business process innovations. Using a unique data set spanning roughly 35,000 plants in 86 U.S. manufacturing industries, I study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608151 Quanta Computer and the One Laptop Per Child Initiative Harvard Business School Case 608-102 When Quanta Computer, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of laptop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace