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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
Made in China REASON U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of consumer electronics and computers migrated to Asia. Electrophoretic display MADE IN TAIWAN REASON Its manufacture requires expertise developed from producing flat-panel LCDs, which migrated to Asia...
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- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
skills, and engineering capabilities" resulting from the clustering of universities, suppliers, and manufacturers in industries such as biotechnology, electronic components, and semiconductors in which rapidly-developing innovations...
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- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
semiconductors and software, but monetization of IP only works there because of some very specific conditions. You need to have a very modular knowledge base; that is, you need to be able to break up a "big puzzle" into its...
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
semiconductors and disk drives in the 1990s. But for a city-state without natural resources, the new millennium belongs to a knowledge-based economy, and the Biopolis, which opened in 2003, is at the center of that. "In late 1989, I...
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- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708445 Horizontal Specialization and Modularity in the Semiconductor Industry Harvard Business School Note 609-001 Well-codified interfaces have enabled horizontal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
students to examine Suncor's strategic positioning and cost structure, and the challenges that the firm's leaders confront as of 2007. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708023 Taiwan View Details
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Martha Lagace
- June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Teaching Note
Qualcomm Inc., 2019
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-514.
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- June 2015 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Epistar and the Global LED Market
By: Willy C. Shih, Chen-Fu Chien and Hung-Kai Wang
It took BJ Lee many years to learn how to navigate the patent minefield that was the global LED industry. When his company was first spun off from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan, he thought the essence of a good IP strategy was to develop a...
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Keywords:
Intellectual Property Management;
Patenting;
Patent Litigation;
Intellectual Property;
Patents;
Semiconductor Industry;
Semiconductor Industry;
Asia;
United States;
Japan;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., Chen-Fu Chien, and Hung-Kai Wang. "Epistar and the Global LED Market." Harvard Business School Case 615-053, June 2015. (Revised January 2017.)
- June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
Comp.Sys.Intel: The Internet and the Pentium Chip Controversy (B)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Information Infrastructure;
Ethics;
Semiconductor Industry;
Semiconductor Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "Comp.Sys.Intel: The Internet and the Pentium Chip Controversy (B)." Harvard Business School Case 395-247, June 1995. (Revised June 1996.)
- June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
Comp.Sys.Intel: The Internet and the Pentium Chip Controversy (A)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Information Infrastructure;
Ethics;
Semiconductor Industry;
Semiconductor Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "Comp.Sys.Intel: The Internet and the Pentium Chip Controversy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-246, June 1995. (Revised June 1996.)
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
had created. In seeking to do so, Hirai might find guidance in the history of the industry, which had been marked by rapid and frequent changes of fortune. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709448...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
positive correlation between the number of journal articles published between 1981 and 1997 by semiconductor company researchers and the number of patents held by firms. "It turns out," he said, "that publications by IBM...
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by Jim Aisner
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
computer science, optics, and various engineering disciplines. We need to get over the outdated notion that manufacturing is "mature" and unconnected to science. Anyone who believes that should take a tour of a factory that produces View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
no surprise, therefore, that semiconductor-equipment suppliers are moving more of their R&D to Asia to be closer to the hubs of semiconductor production. Retaining R&D. In many contexts, R&D and production are tightly integrated, and they...
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
is a specialist in "wafer probing," a highly specialized niche sandwiched between the "front-end" and the "back-end" of semiconductor manufacturing. Because the semiconductor...
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Martha Lagace
- May 1973 (Revised June 1976)
- Case
Teradyne, Inc. (A)
By: Robert H. Hayes
Hayes, Robert H. "Teradyne, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 673-111, May 1973. (Revised June 1976.)
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group
semiconductors and container ships. Samsung has set a vision 2020 goal of reaching $400B in revenues by exploring new territories such as biotechnology, virtual reality, and applications of 5G wireless technology, among others. In this...
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Technology
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
easily in response to massive shifts in the technological environment. In essence, this means that they can much more easily "plug in" to a different way of doing business. Examples are provided by NVIDIA easily cutting across generations of View Details
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
equipment. By 1979, that figure had increased by two orders of magnitude to $217.4 million. Fabrication facilities [“fabs”] were expensive. During the 1970s, the semiconductor industry became capital intensive. Manufacturing at Intel...
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