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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... 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

"pushback," and argumentation they had been encouraging. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508081 Upgrading the Economy: Industrial Policy and Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry... 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • June 2018 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

Qualcomm Inc., 2019

By: David B. Yoffie and Andrew S. Choi
This case is set in mid-2019, when Qualcomm was struggling with unwanted take-over battles, fights with Apple and the Chinese government, and internal dissension on the board of directors. Ten years earlier Qualcomm was hailed as a monopoly on CDMA technologies and... View Details
Keywords: Technology Cycles; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Standards; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 07 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

industry, and even a country to the head of the class almost overnight, said Kiyotaka Fujii, president and CEO of SAP Japan Co., Ltd. That lesson was learned by Japan in the 1980s, when it was rising to prominence in some segments of the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

milestones: the birth of the silicon chip and the development of the venture capital industry. From humble beginnings, Valentine became a legendary salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor and National View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

Willy ShihHarvard Business School Case 610-085 Tessera Technologies has been very successful developing technologies for the semiconductor and mobile device industry, and then licensing them broadly to manufacturers. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2000 (Revised June 2003)
  • Teaching Note

Arrow Electronics, Inc. TN

By: Das Narayandas
Teaching Note for (9-598-022). View Details
Keywords: Product Marketing; Sales; Business Subsidiaries; Internet and the Web; Distribution; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Problems and Challenges; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

sacrosanct time for such discussions, as Philips Electronics' board does at annual retreats, is an effective practice: After one recent retreat, Philips decided to exit the semiconductor business, where it was losing ground. Individual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Overview

By: Willy C. Shih
Willy's research interests reflect the 28 years he spent in industry, during which he logged many questions on firm performance, relative competitiveness, and firm culture as an impediment to change. His primary interests today are in the drivers of industrial... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Competitiveness; Competitive Dynamics; Supply Chains; Production; Operations; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; United States; Asia; Europe
  • 20 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

Japan. "Wireless Internet is a reality in Japan," he said, speculating that broadband, digital content, and semiconductors will all be controlled by Japan by 2005. Vogel commented that finance and retail were also promising new... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Case 419-035 P-Will at DISCO From the outside, DISCO—a Japan-based manufacturer of precision tools for semiconductor production devices—appeared to be a rather ordinary company that had achieved rather extraordinary success: it had... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

association of memory and computer companies to establish such standards for semiconductor devices. Because interchangeability is so important, most memory products are made to be consistent with the relevant standard. This means that any... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

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