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Will Our Partner Steal Our IP (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-ChengArticle HBS-R1301Z-EA Taiwanese manufacturer of hybrid-car parts faces risks to its proprietary technology in its partnership with a Chinese automaker. Case Study authored by Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang, featuring commentaries by experts Eric Giler and Mats H. Olsson. For teaching purposes, this is the commentary-only version of the HBR case study. The case-only version is reprint R1301X. The complete case study and commentary is reprint R1301M.Starting at €8.20
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Quanta Research Institute: Rainforest or Hothouse
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-Cheng; Yu, HowardCase HBS-611024-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Barry Lam, the CEO and Founder of Quanta Computer (the largest notebook computer manufacturer worldwide), has recognized for many years, that he had to transform the company to decrease its dependence on producing commodity hardware for other global brands and move the firm into areas of higher value-added products and services. But how could he transform an organization tha...Starting at €8.20
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Jucai Human Resource Development: Empowering through Data
Haibo Hu; Yiqin Wang; Chen Liu; Meiju Fei; Fan Yu; William Wei; Victor BilodeauCase IVEY-W25807-EInformation Technologies, StrategyThe founder of Jucai Human Resources Development Co., Ltd. had witnessed the development of China’s human resources service industry over the previous 20 years. In the company’s early stages, it had mainly relied on the advantage of information asymmetry of the Internet to carry out online recruitment services. But from 2015, the founder became interested in and confident about the prospects of providing a talent assessment service for public ins...Starting at €8.20
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Xinke: Transforming Service through the Crowd Innovation Space
Haibo Hu; Haitao Lu; Tao Huang; Chunbing Mao; Etayankara Muralidharan; William WeiCase IVEY-9B19M034-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyFounded in late 2014, Xinke used a crowdfunding café model to provide a platform for communication among entrepreneurs and investors. In June 2015, Xinke co-operated with a leading real estate company to create a crowd innovation café, and in August 2016, it received A-round financing that led to the establishment of a crowd innovation fund and the creation of a self-access media platform. Xinke had opened a high-end shared office to provide all ...Starting at €8.20
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Will Our Partner Steal Our IP? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-ChengArticle HBS-R1301M-EStrategyA Taiwanese manufacturer of hybrid-car parts faces risks to its proprietary technology in its partnership with a Chinese automaker. Case Study authored by Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang, featuring commentaries by experts Eric Giler and Mats H. Olsson. This HBR Case Study includes both the case and the commentary. For teaching purposes, this reprint is also available in two other versions: case study-only, reprint R1301X, and commentary-only, ...Starting at €8.20
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Shanzai! MediaTek and the
Shih, Willy; Chien, Chen-Fu; Wang, Jyun-ChengCase HBS-610081-EThe term "White Box" is often used to describe products without a brand name. Such products are assembled from standardized parts, and they became a very popular category of desktop PCs. Hsinchu, Taiwan based MediaTek is a fabless semiconductor company that unleashed a white box market in mobile phone handsets by offering an innovative "complete solution" for 2.5G and 2.7G handset manufacturers, dramatically lowering the barriers to entry into th...Starting at €8.20
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A Giant Among Women
Shih, Willy; Bernstein, Ethan S.; Bernstein, Maly Hout; Wang, Jyun-Cheng; Wei, Yi-LingCase HBS-610096-EService and Operations ManagementFew CEOs successfully manage the evolution of their companies from OEM outsourcer to branded manufacturer to expert consumer marketer as well as Tony Lo, CEO of Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., now the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world. In the mid-1980s, Giant produced over a million bikes per year with the Giant brand on fewer than 15% of them; by 2008, Giant was producing 6.4 million bicycles with 70% carrying the Giant brand. And in 2010,...Starting at €8.20
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Delta Electronics Hybrid Power Train
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-ChengCase HBS-610098-EDelta Electronics, the world's largest manufacturer of switching power supplies, hoped to enter the market for gasoline-electric hybrid power trains for automobiles by being a major component and subsystem supplier. While most public awareness of hybrid vehicles fell to the tier one integrated vehicle manufacturers, Delta felt it had an opportunity to enter the market via new automotive market entrants in China who had comparatively fewer capabil...Starting at €8.20
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AmTran Technology Ltd.
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-Cheng; Robinson, KarenCase HBS-613069-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. 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, marketing, and product definition work, while eastern companies in Asia like his perform the engineering and manufac...Starting at €8.20
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Will Our Partner Steal Our IP (HBR Case Study)
Shih, Willy; Wang, Jyun-ChengArticle HBS-R1301X-EA Taiwanese manufacturer of hybrid-car parts faces risks to its proprietary technology in its partnership with a Chinese automaker. Case Study authored by Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang, featuring commentaries by experts Eric Giler and Mats H. Olsson. For teaching purposes, this is the case-only version of the HBR case study. The commentary-only version is reprint R1301Z. The complete case study and commentary is reprint R1301M.Starting at €8.20