Trolltech Mobile Featured in Harvard Business School Case

Trolltech is featured in a new Harvard Business School case study. The paper was presented to the Harvard Business School class with Eirik Chambe-Eng, Trolltech's co-founder and co-CEO, in attendance to discuss the case with students and participate in the resulting debate.

Using fictional customer names and financial information, the case study outlines the very real circumstances Trolltech encountered with its first mobile software customer in 2001. A key issue covered in the case study involved Trolltech's values which came into conflict with the customer's requirements.

The case describes the creation of an open source software venture in Norway, Australia, and the United States that lands a strategic OEM deal with a leading Japanese PDA manufacturer.

It details the evolution of the two companies' relationship and the differences in mindset and culture-Norwegian/Japanese as well as small venture/big venture and software company/hardware company. In the case, Trolltech's co-founders discuss how they must decide to deal with challenges throughout the project.

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Posted January 4th, 2007 by Nymphadora