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  • December 2019 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

Impossible Foods

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
Impossible Foods founder and CEO Pat Brown started the company out of concern over livestock production’s impact on climate change. Impossible’s mission is to end consumption of animals by 2035, and its strategy is to develop and market plant-based foods so similar to... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Food; Consumer Behavior; Behavior; Venture Capital; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Distribution; Production; Product Development; Product Positioning; Growth Management; Global Strategy; Competition; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China; Asia; California; Hong Kong; Taiwan
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VCPE Database Comparison

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  • 29 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Almost fifty years ago, nineteen-year-old Andy Grove stepped off a boat in New York City, a poor immigrant from Hungary who barely escaped Nazi occupation. A decade later he co-founded Intel, the chipmaker that would help invent the PC... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 10 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

insurance industry Proudest Accomplishment: Being the mother of Elisa and the wife of Andrés  Summer Internship: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - Boston Office How do you do it? I have a great partner (Andy), I’m positive and enjoy the... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

sufficient condition. Beyond network effects, successful platforms make it hard for their users to multihome. Multihome means users can participate on multiple platforms at the same time. In the old days, it was hard to use both a Windows View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)

upscale, premium desserts to the masses. Elevator pitch: Finale is an upscale dessert-focused restaurant concept that provides people with an alternative to bars or coffee shops, where they can enjoy a sensational dessert experience. Our goal is to become a national... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; desserteries; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

    Irwin M. Jacobs

    Jacobs is a pioneer in the wireless technology industry. The company that he founded, Qualcomm, developed a satellite-based communications protocol called CDMA, Code Division Multiple Access. Considered one of the fastest growing wireless technologies, CDMA became the... View Details
    Keywords: Communications
    • 02 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Does Apple Go From Here?

    with it. Furthermore, the PC industry operates on much thinner margins, which is why it takes so long to imitate. Dell spends 1 percent (of revenue) on R&D, Apple spends 4 to 5 percent on R&D. Apple... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2012 (Revised August 2013)
    • Case

    Global Unichip Corporation (A)

    By: Willy Shih and Chen-Fu Chien
    Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is a design services company that acts as a front-end to TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry. In so doing, it masked the complexity of the latest process technologies, and reduced the entry barriers for small firms to... View Details
    Keywords: Abstraction; Value-network; Entry Barriers; Intermediaries; Dis-intermediation; Aggregator; Vertical Specialization; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Industry Structures; Information Infrastructure; Complexity; Information Technology; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan
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    Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Thermo Fisher Scientific, and a supervisor of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Read More about Michael Porter William W. George, Professor of Management Practice William W. George, Professor of Management Practice, teaches... View Details
    • November 2012 (Revised August 2013)
    • Supplement

    Global Unichip Corporation (B)

    By: Willy Shih and Chen-Fu Chien
    Jim Lai, President of Global Unichip Corporation (GUC), mapped out the changes he saw coming to the global semiconductor industry. The big question was how many system developers would start coming directly to GUC. View Details
    Keywords: Abstraction; Value-network; Vertical Integration; Entry Barriers; Intermediaries; Dis-intermediation; Aggregator; Vertical Specialization; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Integration; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Industry Structures; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Complexity; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan
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    • 17 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

    worried about the ascendance of China, while firms in Taiwan and Hong Kong have reaped enormous benefits from Chinese economic expansion, according to Huang. He presented his new research proposal to an audience of faculty and doctoral... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 10 Apr 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons from the Browser Wars

    diffused into the market. The debate was this: Did Microsoft win because its Internet Explorer was the technologically superior product to Netscape Navigator, or was Microsoft just more successful at the distribution end by convincing most View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
    • 25 Jul 2007
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    The Evolution of Apple

    In the context of the computer industry at large, professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that's always been a bit different in "Apple Computer, 2006." The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology
    • 01 Jun 2007
    • News

    A Juicy Story

    In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • 02 Oct 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

    The assumption that industries will become more concentrated as they become more global, that the global economy is a winner-take-all economy, has become common wisdom. But, according to Pankaj Ghemawat and Fariborz Ghadar, empirical... View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
    • 11 Jun 2018
    • Blog Post

    Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

    care and is the CEO and co-founder of InfiniteMD, a telemedicine company connecting Chinese patients with US physicians for second opinions. She is a practicing Preventive Care and Occupational Medicine physician at Cambridge Health Alliance and researches wellness of... View Details
    • 15 Dec 2024
    • News

    Assets: Memory Full

    When Dante Roscini (MBA 1988) arrived on campus in 1986, he and members of his class each became the de-facto owner of an IBM PC Convertible (purchase was mandatory for all incoming students). As conceived by German industrial designer Richard Sapper, the laptop-style... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; computer hardware; history; HBS memories
    • September 2008
    • Teaching Note

    Chi Mei Optoelectronics (TN)

    By: Willy C. Shih
    Teaching Note for [608-123]. View Details
    Keywords: Diversification; Information Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Standards; Industry Clusters; Supply Chain; Production; Experience and Expertise; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Taiwan; Asia; Korean Peninsula; China
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    • 05 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

    strategies of companies within those industries. In particular, I focus on how an industry gets defined: how consumers and other industry players make sense of, or frame, the industry, and the way that... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology