Publications

May 1989
Teaching Note

Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (B), Teaching Note

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Teaching Note for (9-188-143). View Details

Keywords: Production; Cost Management; System; Product; Resource Allocation; Management Practices and Processes; Electronics Industry

February 1999
Case

Tektronix, Inc.: Global ERP Implementation

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, George Francis Westerman III and Mark J. Cotteleer

Reviews Tektronix's implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution in all three of its global business divisions. This case tells the story of three implementations, each with its own character and requirements. Tektronix managers needed to... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Transformation; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Management; Management Skills; Management Style; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Electronics Industry

Educators

September 1996
Teaching Note

Kodak Business Imaging Systems Division, Teaching Note

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Marie-Therese M. Flaherty

Teaching Note for (9-693-043). View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry

March 1994
Supplement

Bose Corp.: The JIT II Program (D)

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Bruce Isaacson

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry

November 1988 (Revised May 1990)
Case

General Electric Lighting Business Group: The High-Speed Horizontal Project

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Electronics Industry

July 1986 (Revised October 1987)
Case

Ampex Corp.: Product Matrix Engineering (Revised)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Competition; Quality; Management; Electronics Industry

August 1977 (Revised March 1986)
Teaching Note

Gentle Electric Co., Teaching Note

By: Jeffrey G. Miller and Steven C. Wheelwright

Teaching Note for (9-672-038). View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry

September 1995 (Revised October 1996)
Supplement

Sunbeam Television (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and E. Scott Lathrop

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry

February 1990
Teaching Note

General Electric: Customer Service, Teaching Note

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Customers; Electronics Industry

January 1982
Case

GenRad, Inc. (D): The Pursuit of Renascence Under The Ambivalence Born of the Confluence of Nascence and Senescence

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Keywords: Electronics Industry

March 1981
Case

Matsushita Electric

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Electronics Industry

December 1989 (Revised October 1990)
Case

General Electric Co.: Preparing for the 1990s

By: Francis Aguilar

Describes Jack Welch's tenure as CEO from 1981 to 1989 through excerpts of speeches and presentations. Sections include summary of GE's strategy, Welch's quantum leap approach to change, the restructuring of GE, how GE operates (the "GE Growth Engine"), and managing GE... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Policy; Business or Company Management; Change Management; Business Strategy; Restructuring; Operations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Electronics Industry

October 1984 (Revised January 1986)
Background Note

World Television Industry in 1979

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Television Entertainment; Electronics Industry

January–February 2013
Article

Will Our Partner Steal Our IP?

By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang

This fictionalized case looks at the spillover of intellectual property (IP) from a critical component supplier to an original equipment maker in the Chinese auto industry. What are the challenges to holding on to proprietary know-how when a customer wishes to use... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property Management; Intellectual Property; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; China; Taiwan

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April 2009
Teaching Note

Apple's Core (TN)

By: Noam T. Wasserman and Lisa Brem

Teaching Note for [809063]. View Details

Keywords: Product Design; Resignation and Termination; Decisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Equity; Selection and Staffing; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry

July 1990 (Revised October 1997)
Case

Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Explores how a cost system can help support a firm's decision to change strategies. In the process, the students are introduced to a simple activity-based cost system. Siemens Electric Motor Works found itself facing an increasingly competitive environment and so made... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost; Adoption; Cost vs Benefits; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Production; Business Strategy; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry

Educators

December 2006 (Revised August 2013)
Teaching Note

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

By: Paul W. Marshall

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; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; United States

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