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Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)
Shih, Willy; Pierson, MargaretCase HBS-612071-EService and Operations ManagementTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March, 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer fabrication facility, a critical link in the global automotive supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab so its shutdown forced the "Big Three" of Detroit and Japan to shutdown production as well. Data from two automotive custo...Starting at €8.20
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HP Labs in Singapore
Shih, Willy; Agarwal, Pankaj; Chi, ChristineCase HBS-612080-EWhen HP established a branch of its corporate research lab in Singapore, the government played a key role through its Economic Development Board (EDB). Chris Whitney, the lab's director, sought to generate revenue from the lab's innovations, making it financially independent from corporate funding. The case explores HP's history in Singapore, and the role of the EDB in encouraging the growth of local R&D capabilities. The case poses questions on ...Starting at €8.20
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Austal, Ltd. A
Shih, Willy; Pierson, Margaret; Lau, DawnCase HBS-613025-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Austal, Ltd. was an Australian builder of high-speed passenger ferries. It had translated that expertise into a foothold in the defense market on the US Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program with an Alabama assembly facility. In January 2009 it had just completed the construction of its first LCS, but the global economic crisis put the company in a difficult position. Its ...Starting at €8.20
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Austal, Ltd. B
Shih, Willy; Pierson, Margaret; Lau, DawnCase HBS-613026-EStrategySupplement for case 613025Starting at €8.20
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Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line (B)
Shih, WillyCase HBS-613041-EStrategyRainer Ohnheiser, the President of Carl Zeiss's Business Group Industrial Metrology (IMT), was focused on the threat that in-line metrology posed to Carl Zeiss IMT's core business. Historically, coordinate measurement machines (CMMs) that employed tactile measurement had fueled great market success for the division, but alternative non-contact measurement methods that employed optical or x-ray technologies were rapidly gaining ground in the marke...Starting at €5.74
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AmTran Technology Ltd., Teaching Plan
Shih, WillyTeaching Note HBS-613078-EService and Operations ManagementStarting at €0.00
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The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect
Shih, Willy; Chai, SenCase HBS-613079-EService and Operations ManagementSenior managers at the LEGO Group are faced with a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and nobody else could patent them? They wish to preserve their freedom to practice, but they are very concerned about competitors' ability to benefit from LEGO Group's R&D investments or...Starting at €8.20
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The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect, Teaching Note
Shih, WillyTeaching Note HBS-613097-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for 613079. Senior managers at the LEGO Group are faced with a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and nobody else could patent them? They wish to preserve their freedom to practice, but are very concerned about competitors' ability to benefit from LEGO Group...Starting at €0.00
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Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Shih, WillyCase HBS-614010-EService and Operations ManagementThis case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor perfected a mass production system that converted the vast majority of jobs in the factory into routine tasks. It pioneered the moving assembly line, and it pursued processes that became incre...Starting at €8.20
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Raising the Level of Abstraction
Shih, WillyCase HBS-614019-EStrategyThis technical note discuss abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers o think at a higher level. This lower entry barriers to using (and reusing) a complex technology.Starting at €8.20