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  • May 2019
  • Case

Mobileye Update, 2019

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
Mobileye was an Israeli company, officially headquartered in The Netherlands, which was a Tier 2 supplier to the global automobile industry. This short case updates Mobileye's business performance and strategy, following the acquisition by Intel in 2017. View Details
Keywords: Driverless Car; Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Technology; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Israel
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  • August 2004 (Revised April 2007)
  • Case

Intel Capital, 2005 (A)

By: David B. Yoffie, Barbara Mack, Adriana Boden and Lee Rand
All companies in a technology-intensive industry must worry about the development of their ecosystems and, in particular, the availability and cost of complementary assets. One strategy for promoting complements is to invest in them directly. Explores Intel's strategy... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Venture Capital; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Investment; Assets; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2010
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

products arise from strong insight, gut feel and imagination. Bad ideas, lousy products or services can be avoided by serious market research." Andy Robin pointed out that in the semiconductor business "one still had to spend a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology
  • 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
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 1993 (Revised June 1994)
  • Case

Intel Corporation: Going into OverDrive

In May 1992, Intel Corp., the leading supplier of microprocessors for IBM-compatible personal computers, announced the retail availability of OverDrive processors, a new line of performance upgrades for the Intel 486 series of microprocessors. The case chronicles the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Expansion; Product Marketing; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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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... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • May 1973 (Revised June 1976)
  • Case

Teradyne, Inc. (A)

By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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  • July 1992
  • Teaching Note

Applied Materials TN

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Teaching Note for (9-692-078). View Details
Keywords: Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 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
Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing
  • 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
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 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... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

of one of the largest semiconductor clusters in Europe. Contrary to conventional wisdom in the semiconductor industry, the Dresden team only copied from its home corporate locations in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Fast Answer

Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments

tech, nanotech, semiconductor manufacturing, etc. View Details
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

manufacturer required. Indeed, the trend toward customers as innovators has the power to completely transform industries. In the semiconductor business, it has led to a custom-chip market that has grown to more than $15 billion. The... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace