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- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
number of administrative functional managers in the C-suite. One possible explanation is that prior to the onset of electronic communication, it would have been too costly for employees to communicate crucial local information from the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
pressure from cut-throat competition in mainland China. Even though TCL was one of the largest Chinese TV manufacturers (even prior to the acquisition of Thomson's assets), commodity TVs and other consumer electronics items were not... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
founder of Napster, would probably agree with the assertion. While Harlan Cleveland foresaw the dimensions of the Information Economy, what he may have underestimated was the ease with which information, proprietary or not, could be transmitted and exchanged View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
Fiyta - The Case of a Chinese Watch Company (TN)
Teaching Note for 308025. View Details
- September 2009 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
VIZIO, Inc.
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Elizabeth A. Kind
William Wang, CEO of VIZIO, Inc., was proud of his company's success in providing affordable flat screen TVs. Since its founding in 2002, VIZIO had grown to over $2 billion in revenue and was one of the top three flat panel TV brands, along with Samsung and Sony. Faced... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., and Elizabeth A. Kind. "VIZIO, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 110-024, September 2009. (Revised April 2020.)
- January 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Responding to the Wii?
By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda
After years of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Two-Sided Platforms; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Hanna Halaburda. "Responding to the Wii?" Harvard Business School Case 709-448, January 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
- September 2014
- Article
The Interrelationships Between Brand and Channel Choice
By: Scott Neslin, Kenshuk Jerath, Anand Bodapati, Eric T. Bradlow, John A. Deighton, Sonja Gensler, Leonard Lee, Elisa Montaguti, Rahul Telang, Raj Venkatesan, Peter C. Verhoef and Z. John Zhang
We propose a framework for the joint study of the consumer's decision of where to buy and what to buy. The framework is rooted in utility theory where the utility is for a particular channel/brand combination. The framework contains firm actions, the consumer search... View Details
Keywords: Brand Choice; Channel Choice; Utility Theory; Marketing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Learning; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry
Neslin, Scott, Kenshuk Jerath, Anand Bodapati, Eric T. Bradlow, John A. Deighton, Sonja Gensler, Leonard Lee, Elisa Montaguti, Rahul Telang, Raj Venkatesan, Peter C. Verhoef, and Z. John Zhang. "The Interrelationships Between Brand and Channel Choice." Marketing Letters 25, no. 3 (September 2014): 319–330.
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
The Effect of Service Quality and Competition on Demand By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
it a wise idea to model the revamped club after its namesake in Las Vegas that had become North America's highest-grossing club by focusing on electronic dance music and featuring a high-profile DJ every night? Could Strauss and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812098-PDF-ENG Integrated Assurance at Philips Electronics N.V. Robert G. Eccles and Daniela SaltzmanHarvard Business School Case 412-054 Philips Electronics... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
systems to help people succeed in both the short and long run. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52834 Harvard Business School Case 709-417 Betfair vs. UK Bookmakers Betting exchanges provide an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
competition has become the battle to simplify this overload and present it in manageable, user-friendly form to the consumer. In all these sectors of the industry, Tufano and the others agree, an increasingly important force is entering into the mix: the Internet. The... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512003-PDF-ENG Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd.: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, Shelley Xin Li, and Alan KnightHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
Two days ago, the first buyers of Apple's iPad began putting it through its paces, playing games, navigating the Internet, and downloading electronic books. That groan you heard was from dozens of book publishers across the United States,... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
In the past decade, physician burnout has evolved from a serious concern to a troubling epidemic, affecting 50 percent of physicians and physicians-in-training. Excessive workloads, process inefficiencies, and administrative burdens related to View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
approach to policy making. In 2005, the Governor of Arizona issued an Executive Order to create a roadmap for the state to achieve statewide electronic health data exchange between various entities in the health care delivery system. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
complicated organizational know-how, such as the pharmaceutical and electronics industries.) "The FDI that I'm looking at also has gone into industries in which the local entrepreneurs in these economies started out with some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
compensate him. The song was called "United Breaks Guitars." Within one week it received 3 million views and mainstream news coverage followed, with CNN, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, the CBS Morning Show, and many other print and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Technology Entrepreneurship, Marketing Strategy, Service Management View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
party." Can it, however, be organized to capture the advantages of both face-to-face and electronic contact? And does the peace of mind from telecommuting enhance the learning that takes place when humans do occasionally meet? What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett