infrastructure industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2024
Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

private-labeled digital devices at competitive prices. Yang credited Amazon for the company’s success. In addition to Amazon’s established infrastructure that helped it save on retail and logistics costs, “the key to building high quality... View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

June 2025
Case

TagHive: Edtech Pricing and Distributor Decisions

By: Isamar Troncoso, Frank V. Cespedes and Stacy Straaberg

Education technology (edtech) company TagHive, founded in 2017, used a direct sales team and third-party distributors to sell its Class Saathi hardware and software solution to 300 clients, mainly primary and secondary schools in India. The product aimed to improve... View Details

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February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Brainlab: Imaging a MedTech Future

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Gregory P. Licholai and Federica Gabrieli

Can Brainlab, a privately held firm, compete with giants like Medtronic and Amazon in delivering the Digital Operating Room of the future? The CEO is pondering solutions for secure exchange of medical information, pricing a new robotic imaging device, and reorganizing... View Details

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22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

annually. Together, the 2021 Infrastructure Bill’s $265 billion for clean energy and the $386 billion in the IRA, the total investment almost reaches the $700-$800 billion annual budget of the Department of Defense. Of course, the bill’s... View Details

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

their worth from their multisided platforms (MSPs), which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than companies in the same industries that provide only products or services: For instance,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

secondary, and higher levels? Do the local community and national culture value entrepreneurship and have the infrastructure to support it? A century ago, Kanter adds, an engineer's slide rule symbolized exciting opportunities for the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

Periodical:Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract Strategic alliances are commonplace in the biotechnology sector. We posit that the stock of prior alliances between participants in the biotech industry produces... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2002 (Revised January 2003)
Case

Australia-Japan Cable: Structuring the Project Company

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman

In late September 1999, representatives from Telstri, Japan Telecom, and Teleglobe met to discuss the structure of the Australia-Japan Cable (AJC) project, a $520 million submarine cable system that would run from Australia to Japan. The sponsors, excited by the... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Cooperative Ownership; Organizational Structure; Investment; Ownership; Capital; Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Communication Technology; Projects; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Finance; Telecommunications Industry; Australia; Japan

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30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find that entrepreneurial activity is higher in industries that have a large share of foreign firms in vertically linked industries. Second, we find that entrepreneurial activity in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

effective December 31, 1999. The true story of the Canal upends the more conventional tale of U.S. triumphalism and its shepherding of one of the largest infrastructure works ever built. First, the Canal produced great economic dividends... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

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... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2024
Supplement

gWorks (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details

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May 2004
Background Note

56K Modem Battle

By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier

Examines the battle to set the standard for the 56K modem. Set in 1996, this case looks at how computers accessed the Internet via a telephone line, or dial-up connection, and a hardware modem. In 1995, there were 18.6 million total modem unit shipments, with market... View Details

Keywords: Announcements; Revenue; Patents; Product Launch; Network Effects; Standards; Competition; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Illinois

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March 2006 (Revised December 2009)
Compilation

Skype

By: Peter A. Coles and Thomas R. Eisenmann

Presents eBay's rationale for its $2.6 billion acquisition in late 2005 of Skype, a fast growing voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) provider. Describes Skype's history, technology, business model, and competition, as well as government regulation of VoIP services. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Communication Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Telecommunications Industry

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17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

identified and classified in terms of specifying, allocating, and utilizing capacity. The first two categories reflect challenges faced by infrastructure providers; the last category, challenges faced by airlines. Building Effective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

Entrepreneurship in India Authors:Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

dominant investment vehicle of our time. The Complete Guide to ETF Portfolio Management provides everything you need to know to manage an ETF with knowledge and skill. As Janus Capital’s first ETF portfolio manager, Scott Weiner helped build much of the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
Case

Technical Data Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman

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