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- December 2012 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
AmTran Technology Ltd.
By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson
As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Technology Transitions; Analog; Digital; Television; TV; Flat-panel; ATSC; NTSC; Video; Global Strategy; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Product Design; Supply Chain; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Electronics Industry; Taiwan; United States; Japan
Shih, Willy, Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Karen E. Robinson. "AmTran Technology Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 613-069, December 2012. (Revised April 2025.)
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
for years to come. Unpredictability inflicts a heavy cost on scientific progress, whether in domains like stem-cell research or in searching for safe alternative fuels. It damages the United States' competitive position because great... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
industries, to name two, will be affected. And of how the Internet performed so dependably in spite of almost unimaginable demand. But what about more basic issues? Must we increasingly choose between our freedom and our security? If so, what's the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
find that involuntary closures are most frequent in U.S. counties with high rates of households headed by single mothers, low levels of college education, high rates of property crime, a strong presence of multi-market vs. local banks, higher levels of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
blah, blah. Talking about a case and the antipathy towards theory, the lack of a foundation in disciplines like economics and mathematics and so on, I thought was appalling. Okay. So on one WAC, you know, Written Analysis of Case. Okay. There’s a problem of View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
LendingClub, and Kabbage—entered the marketplace. They revolutionized the customer experience by providing a streamlined application process and faster decision-making. It seemed as if these new entrants would someday dominate the market, but banks still maintained... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
implement principles of open and distributed innovation. Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
subgroups can shape information sharing to create a hidden profile where there was none initially. Second, we describe how individual defection can weaken subgroup competition and, paradoxically, increase the chance that a team will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
place in the private sector, the owners would probably hold the stock until the company was in robust health. The realized price on the stock would then in all likelihood be higher. But the Obama administration has made it clear that as a... View Details
- Web
Online AI Course | HBS Online
collision between traditional and AI-powered companies, and that clash’s impact on digital transformation. Highlights Iavor Bojinov, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Stéphane Bancel, CEO, Moderna Dr. Melissa Moore, Chief... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Chile's largest wine producer faces a price versus value positioning problem. Its highest quality wines are not priced competitively at retail because "Made in Chile"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
principle and spirit of ethical reciprocity in the definition and pursuit of corporate purpose. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55998 Harvard Business School Case 919-413 Wattpad How to run a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
international competition means we should expect industries to come and go. Even if this is sometimes painful, it is, in fact, a healthy process by which resources flow to their most productive uses. When a commons erodes, however, it... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent with markets failing to properly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
the trio mastered five rules of strategy: Look forward, reason back. Figure out where you want your company to be in five years, then reason back to identify steps to get you there. Make big bets, without betting the company. Be bold, go for big wins, but not in a... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
"money management" and the "investment systems platform" businesses. Students analyze why BlackRock decided to unbundle its Aladdin investment platform and if the firm should consider expanding the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face of fierce price competition are not the... View Details