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Coats: Supply Chain Challenges, Teaching Note
Shih, WillyTeaching Note HBS-622034-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-115. Faced with continuing cost pressure, should Coats, the world's largest thread maker, relocate some of its make-to-stock manufacturing to an ultra-low-cost region while leaving make-to-order demand close to customers?Starting at €0.00
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Shaping the Vaccine Manufacturing Ecosystem
Shih, WillyCase HBS-620021-EService and Operations ManagementVaccines for children has been a long-standing focus for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and their critical role in public health made their production an important economic and political issue. This case describes the Foundation's investment in a breakthrough vaccine manufacturing platform for the Sabin inactivated polio virus. While the new technology promised a much lower cost per dose, it also raised questions about the consequences of l...Starting at €8.20
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Upgrading the Economy: Industrial Policy and Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-ChengCase HBS-609089-EService and Operations ManagementThe government-led creation and incubation of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is a striking success for advocates of strong industrial policy. It has led to the island nation's domination of the global "foundry" business in which firms like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) manufacture the designs of "fabless" design companies. The two have a combined global market share of close ...Starting at €8.20
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Dongfeng Passenger Vehicle Company: Marketing Challenges for the
Shih, Willy; Dai, Nancy HuaCase HBS-612029-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. As Mr. Li Chunrong visited the new assembly line for the Dongfeng Passenger Vehicle Company in Wuhan, China, he contemplated the position his business unit found itself in: a latecomer. As a state-owned enterprise Dongfeng had entered into numerous joint ventures to produce automobiles under foreign brands, but its foray into selling vehicles under its own brand had only sta...Starting at €8.20
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Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge
Shih, Willy; Ofek, ElieCase HBS-607136-EStrategyExamines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half decades. The open architecture design of the IBM Personal Computer followed by the rapid appearance of clones drove a high level of standardization and modularity in the industry, and value was distributed along the value chain depending on levels of competition and ability to substitute components at each level. On the hardware side two component segments, the mic...Starting at €8.20
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Chi Mei Optoelectronics
Shih, Willy; Yu, Howard; Shih, Chintay; Wang, Jyun-ChengCase HBS-608123-EService and Operations ManagementTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Chi Mei is a Taiwanese industrial group that makes a major diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the firm was able to become a global leader in the relatively short span of ten years. Such organic diversification...Starting at €8.20
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From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group
Shih, Willy; Dai, Nancy HuaCase HBS-610057-EService and Operations ManagementAs Zuo Zongshen drove the transformation of the Zongshen Industrial Group from an early imitator in the motorcycle business to a company that increasingly focused on innovation as a way to get out of the hyper-competitive commodity business, he continually faced new challenges. The company had become a leader in gasoline powered motorcycles and small gas engines, but increasing taxes and restrictions on the use of motorcycles in congested urban a...Starting at €8.20
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BeiGene, PowerPoint Supplement
Shih, Willy; Zhang, JimmyCase HBS-618043-EStrategyPowerPoint slides for case 618033.Starting at €8.20
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Netflix, Teaching Note
Shih, Willy; Kaufman, Stephen P.Teaching Note HBS-607139-EStrategyTeaching note to (607-138).Starting at €0.00
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Austal, Ltd. B
Shih, Willy; Pierson, Margaret; Lau, DawnCase HBS-613026-EStrategySupplement for case 613025Starting at €8.20