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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
- 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
- Research Summary
Overview
By: William C. Kirby
A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese... View Details
Keywords: China; Internationalization; Educational Policy And Politics; Infrastructure; Government And Business; The Revival Of Family Business In China; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Agribusiness; Education; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
became a very popular category of desktop PCs. Hsinchu, Taiwan based MediaTek is a fabless semiconductor company that unleashed a white-box market in mobile phone handsets by offering an innovative "complete solution" for 2.5G... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
Yoffie, David B., and Daniel Fisher. "Mobileye Update, 2019." Harvard Business School Case 719-511, May 2019.
- 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
Yoffie, David B., Barbara Mack, Adriana Boden, and Lee Rand. "Intel Capital, 2005 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-408, August 2004. (Revised April 2007.)
- Research Summary
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
- 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
- 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 advice would you give would-be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry. In so doing, it masked the complexity of the latest process technologies and reduced the entry barriers for small firms to utilize the latest technology. In acting as an aggregator, it was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308066 System on a Chip 2008: Global Unichip Corp. Harvard Business School Case 608-159 Though much of the semiconductor industry has shifted to a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
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 associated with science-based businesses. We also examined strategic... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Strategy and Technology (Elective Curriculum)
By: David B. Yoffie
This course explores the unique aspects of creating effective management and investment strategies for technology-intensive businesses. What strategies can win in markets with strong network effects? How can firms leverage technology to build multi-sided platforms?... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511115-PDF-ENG Semiconductor Manufacturing International Company in 2011 Willy Shih and Jia ChengHarvard Business School Case 611-053 When David Wang took over as the CEO of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne