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- June 1995
- Supplement
Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (A2): Getting to Know Each Other
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko
Reviews subsequent events.
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Pamela A. Yatsko. "Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (A2): Getting to Know Each Other." Harvard Business School Supplement 395-082, June 1995.
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
expenditures for telecommunications and information technology. One option is to hand over management of its telecom and IT networks to its vendors. Explores the pros and cons of such an outsourcing arrangement for a company in an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
manufactured a product that changed the world by dint of its pervasiveness and indispensability. But as some noted, Ford also introduced revolutionary management, workplace, and business innovations that in and of themselves transformed...
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- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
rather by telecommunications carriers. It's the carriers who create design specifications for the manufacturers to meet, and services are largely tied into the carrier's proprietary network. "There are...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
PublicationsLocal Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India Authors:Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell Publication:Journal of Economic Geography Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing new initiatives in B2C...
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by Martha Lagace
- October 1988
- Case
Digital Communications, Inc.: Encoder Device Division
Explores the issues surrounding the determination of the product cost of a subassembly in a firm that has never had to determine subassembly costs. Asks students to change the cost system by adding allocation bases and developing a step-down allocation process.
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Cost Accounting;
Resource Allocation;
Manufacturing Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Cooper, Robin. "Digital Communications, Inc.: Encoder Device Division." Harvard Business School Case 189-083, October 1988.
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
the strong hardware and manufacturing bias and hierarchical structures of Japan's computer and electronics firms is largely responsible for the virtual non-existence of a standalone software sector. Second, even when the vertical...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
first-movers in radio were the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading United States producers of electrical and telecommunications equipment, and the German company Telefunken, a joint venture of the two...
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- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
manufacturer like Ford Motor Company. Ford cooperates with its suppliers to design new vehicles even as it negotiates vigorously with them over the terms on which parts will be supplied. By cooperating to develop new cars, Ford and its...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
unexpectedly in the midst of chaos brought by the resistance of its staff who feared losing their civil servant status after privatization. Also facing Mao was the forthcoming deregulation of the telecommunication industry on the island...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Using a detailed panel dataset on supply relationships in the mobile telecommunications industry, we address the following...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Cablevision, and Tellabs (a maker of telecommunications products) in the late 1960s and 1970s to more recent investments such as Red Hat (a global provider of Linux and open-source technology), Internet Security Systems, online...
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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
initial revenue push, but the critical move might be to redefine Gazelle around a model of exchanging a product for cash and then extending more product lines. That could lead to relationships with vendors, retailers, and manufacturers...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
David LaneHarvard Business School Case 810-075 Iqbal Quadir, a former New York investment banker, set about to bring universal telecommunications to his native Bangladesh. He was convinced that GSM, the same advanced wireless technology...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville started his career in the Bell...
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by David Stauffer
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
agent-based simulation model of network emergence. Using data on technology partnerships from 1983 to 1999 among firms in the automotive, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, microelectronics, new materials, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne