Publications

April 2004 (Revised March 2006)
Teaching Note

Inside Intel Inside (TN)

By: Youngme E. Moon

Teaching Note to (9-502-083). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

October 1998 (Revised August 2001)
Teaching Note

Intel Corporation: 1968-1997 TN

By: Gary P. Pisano

Teaching Note for (9-797-137). View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Advantage; Forecasting and Prediction; Semiconductor Industry

1993
Chapter

Semiconductors: From Manipulated to Managed Trade

By: Laura D Tyson and D. B. Yoffie

Keywords: Trade; Technology; Semiconductor Industry

March 1995
Teaching Note

Intel's Pentium: When the Chips are Down (A) and (B) TN

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Sarah Conner

Teaching Note for (9-595-058) and (9-595-059). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

October 1988 (Revised February 1991)
Case

Sematech

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

February 1988
Case

Intel Corp.--1987

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

foundation upon which future innovative sectors can be built is crumbling. When the semiconductor production business moved to Asia in the 1980s, it brought with it a whole host of capabilities—electronic-materials processing, deposition... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Nantero Harvard Business School Case 809-031 This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Wintel (A): Cooperation or Conflict

By: David B. Yoffie, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Sasha Mattu

Examines the dynamic relationship between two complementors: Intel and Microsoft. Set in 1995, the case asks how Intel and Microsoft should solve a serious division between the two companies that threatens the health of the PC industry. View Details

Keywords: Conflict Management; Competition; Cooperation; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

this case:http://hbr.org/search/513001-PDF-ENG Building a Community at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Marquis, Christopher, Zucheng Zhou, Mo Chen, and Heng FanHarvard Business School Case 413-083 Over the past... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Teaching Note

Qualcomm Inc., 2019

By: David B. Yoffie

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-514. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Standards; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry

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... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property Management; Patenting; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property; Patents; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; United States; Japan; Taiwan

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

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

April 2012
Case

Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)

By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer fabrication facility, a critical link in the global automotive supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab, so its... View Details

Keywords: Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Supply Chain Management; Production; Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Japan