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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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 We need to get over the outdated notion that manufacturing is "mature" and unconnected to science.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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 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
  • August 2001
  • Teaching Note

Apax Partners and Dialog Semiconductor: March 1998 TN

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for (9-201-044). View Details
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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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