Publications

March 1992 (Revised June 1999)
Teaching Note

Solagen: Process Improvement in the Manufacture of Gelatin, Teaching Note

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

Teaching Note for (9-687-020). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

January 1995
Supplement

Intel's Pentium: When the Chips Are Down (B)

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

May 1989 (Revised June 2005)
Teaching Note

Intel Corporation 1988 (TN)

By: David B. Yoffie

meaching Note for (9-389-063) and (9-389-136). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

February 1989 (Revised July 1989)
Case

JESSI (The Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative)

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

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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

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... View Details

Keywords: Technology

March 1992 (Revised June 1992)
Case

Thermo Electron Corp.

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

George Hatsopoulos, CEO at Thermo Electron Corp., is considering whether to issue shares in a subsidiary via an initial public offering (IPO). The company has developed an unusual corporate structure in which subsidiaries fund new ventures by raising debt and equity in... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Business Subsidiaries; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters; Initial Public Offering; Capital Structure; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry

April 2010
Teaching Note

Carrot or Stick? Getting Paid for Innovation at Tessera Technologies (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

Teaching Note for 610085. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Production; Situation or Environment; Law Enforcement; Lawsuits and Litigation; Information Technology; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Technology Industry

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

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

Résumé Of An Asian Tiger "Only 10 to 12 years ago, the Japanese model was celebrated and undeniable," Porter began. "There was almost an hysteria and fear of Japan." He described how the press in the late '80s and early '90s heralded Japan's View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

Global Company's China Strategy Harvard Business School Case 308-057 After fifty-five years in the semiconductor industry, Morris Chang, founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2011
Teaching Note

Suntech Power (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Teaching Note for 712001. View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Sales; Information Technology; Business Subsidiaries; System; Competition; Renewable Energy; Semiconductor Industry; Germany; Spain; United States; China; Japan

April 2009 (Revised December 2010)
Supplement

Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives (B)

By: Willy C. Shih

Keywords: Business Strategy; Semiconductor Industry

May 2008 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Intel NBI: MXP Digital Media Processor

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston

"Gila" was a high-performance image processor project housed in Intel's New Business Initiatives (NBI) group. NBI was an incubator for corporate entrepreneurs, and it had an established methodology for ensuring a degree of autonomy while these ventures got started. But... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration; Semiconductor Industry; United States

March 2006
Teaching Note

Intel Research: Exploring the Future (TN)

By: Alan D. MacCormack

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
Case

Intel Research: Exploring the Future

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

It is 2004 and David Tennenhouse, the director of Intel Research, is reviewing the organization he has built since 2000. Intel Research was charged with exploring new and disruptive technologies that lay off the "silicon roadmap" that drove most of Intel's R&D efforts.... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Performance Evaluation; Venture Capital; Technology Networks; Semiconductor Industry; United States