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Zebra Medical Vision (Spanish version)
Greenstein, Shane; Gulick, SarahCase HBS-620S05EntrepreneurshipWhat should they do next at Zebra? Should they work on the accuracy of the already-developed algorithms, or continue to develop many new tools? If they chose to develop new products, which applications should they address? And how should they go to market?Starting at €8.20
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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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Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country
Ofek, Elie; Gulick, SarahCase HBS-519006-EMarketingIn the spring of 2018, Israel was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While there was much to rejoice in reaching this milestone, the country's brand image internationally was far from ideal. Past efforts to impact perceptions of Israel, spearheaded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as various Jewish organizations, were mainly aimed at "explaining" Israel's political position and convincing the world that the country was acting in a j...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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Zebra Medical Vision
Greenstein, Shane; Gulick, SarahCase HBS-619014-EEntrepreneurshipAn Israeli startup founded in 2014, Zebra Medical Vision, develops algorithms that produced diagnoses from X-rays, mammograms, and CT-scans. The algorithms used deep learning and digitized radiology scans to create software that could assist doctors in making diagnoses. By July 2018, Zebra had developed seven algorithms to analyze scans for emphysema, liver density, compression fractures, bone density, brain bleeds, breast cancer, and a calcium s...Starting at €8.20
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Zebra Medical Vision, Teaching Note
Greenstein, Shane; Gulick, SarahTeaching Note HBS-619053-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note is meant to accompany Zebra Medical Vision case, which offers a look at a company's decisions as a small startup competing with other startups and major technology companies. It also demonstrates the challenges faced by a machine learning company working on brand-new technology, including difficulties finding training data, hiring competition, and negotiating FDA approvals and other government regulations.Starting at €0.00