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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
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been applied at several levels of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance 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... View Details
Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2025
  • Supplement

Lisa Su and AMD (B)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Matthew Preble and Dave Habeeb
This multimedia case study focuses on CEO Lisa Su’s turnaround and subsequent transformation of the technology company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). When Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused on the company’s culture,... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Leading Change; Transformation; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; United States; California; Texas
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  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

costs. Silicon and wafer cutting technologies that were rendered surplus after the semiconductor industry slowed down during the last recession were picked up by a fast-growing solar energy industry.Q: What... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Arthur Rock

Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard View Details
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

The great thing about standards, tech industry pundit Andrew Tanenbaum once said, is that there are so many to choose from. In fact, standard setting organizations (SSOs) are the unsung heroes of the technology age. Without standards, Web... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 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
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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 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

A Binary Formula

in computers and consumer electronics, Shih says, “We tried to highlight some of the unusual, fresh thinking — such as IBM’s radical collaboration model in semiconductor R&D — that business leaders are using to approach the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610031-PDF-ENG Revitalizing Dell Jan W. RivkinHarvard Business School Case 710-442 Dell Inc., with its vaunted Direct Model, defined success in the personal computer industry for more than a... 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; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 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; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Swiss Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Richard DeJordy Abstract—This study examines how influential institutional leaders in the Swiss watch industry responded to its precipitous decline after the introduction of quartz technology.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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