Willy C. Shih
Willy C. Shih
Professor of Management Practice
| Unit | Technology and Operations Management |
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| Contact | (617) 495-6902 Send E-Mail |
| Interests | disruptive technology, industry evolution, patents, technology strategy, more > |
| Overview | Biography | Publications & Course Materials | Current Research | Areas of Interest |
Willy Shih is a Professor of Management Practice, having joined Technology and Operations Management in January 2007. He teaches in the second year elective curriculum, as well as the Executive Education program.
Featured Work
Restoring American Competitiveness
by Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih, Harvard Business Review, July–August 2009
For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That’s been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today’s low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow’s innovative new products.
What those companies have been ceding is the country’s industrial commons—that is, the collective operational capabilities that underpin new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. As a result, America has lost not only the ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops but also the expertise to produce emerging hot products like the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels, and the batteries that will power the next generation of automobiles.
To rebuild the commons and restore its wealth-generating machine will require government and industry in the United States to make two drastic changes. Read the full article