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Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | August 2004 (Revised March 2005)

Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop-Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox (TN)

by Jeffrey T. Polzer, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and Jenny Illes

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Abstract

Teaching Note to (9-403-090).

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Video Game Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Spain;

Format: Print 25 pages Purchase

Citation:

Polzer, Jeffrey T., Hillary Anger Elfenbein, and Jenny Illes. "Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop-Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 405-007, August 2004. (Revised March 2005.)

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Jeffrey T. Polzer
UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management
Organizational Behavior

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