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Marco Iansiti

Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration,is a codirector of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at HBS.

Prof. Iansiti's research examines the digital transformation of companies and... View Details

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June 2017 (Revised May 2019)
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Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (B)

By: Doug J. Chung

Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain founded in 1988 by brothers Marcus, Mikael and Fredrik Dahnelius. The company operated 84 stores, all company-owned, located mainly in the metropolitan areas of Sweden’s most popular cities: Stockholm, Gothemburg... View Details

Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Behavior; Electronics Industry; Sweden

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Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta... View Details

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Stefan H. Thomke

Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

William A. Sahlman

William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets, and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT). Previously, Lamprecht had led ZEISS SMT as its CEO through a tough time when troubles with the manufacturing of optical... View Details

Alan D. MacCormack

Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Organizational Culture ; Organizational Design ; Strategic Planning ; Business and Shareholder Relations ; Business and Stakeholder Relations ; Research and Development ; Business Strategy ; Competitive Strategy ; Competitive Advantage ; Corporate Strategy ; View Details

20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

that no one understood what it did was brilliant," says Yoffie. "That changed the entire structure of the semiconductor industry forever." “They were all in many ways highly imperfect leaders. We didn't want to idealize... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

Meanwhile, starting in 2013, Analog Devices CEO Vince Roche encouraged innovators from the top down and transformed the semiconductor giant into a designer of integrated, strategic systems—including a platform that accelerated the global... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Roberto Verganti

Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

the areas of low temperature physics, superconductivity, semiconductor electronics and photonics. He is credited with developing the field of phonon optics—the manipulation of monoenergetic acoustic beams at terahertz frequencies. He is... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

came in the field of health care, the firm’s investments now include software, communications technology, semiconductors and electronics, and financial services. With nearly $15 billion under management and over 140 employees, Summit has... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

October 2014 (Revised October 2015)
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Mobileye: The Future of Driverless Cars

By: David B. Yoffie

Mobileye was an Israeli company, officially headquartered in The Netherlands, which was a Tier 2 supplier to the global automobile industry. After 15 years of building a leading technology for autonomous driving systems, Mobileye emerged in 2014 as one of the most... View Details

Keywords: Driverless Car; Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Technology; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Israel

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20 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

down deeper into the data, the researchers also found big variations in growth among different industries. Industries in which there is a lot of innovation, such as semiconductors or pharmaceuticals, saw fast growth overall. However, much... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

fabless semiconductor company focused on designing programmable analog signal processing chips. Aprendo Mason Myers Business Track Runner-Up Aprendo is a service that verifies job candidates’ prior education and employment data quickly... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

and Shareholder Relations ; Business and Stakeholder Relations ; Research and Development ; Business Strategy ; Competitive Strategy ; Competitive Advantage ; Corporate Strategy ; Semiconductor Industry ; Computer Industry ; United States... View Details

Richard S. Tedlow

Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.

Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from... View Details

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