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  • 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 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
  • 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
  • April 2025
  • Case

Japan Industrial Partners Powers the Leveraged Buyout of Toshiba

By: Brian K. Baik, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
The case explores Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) $14 billion takeover of Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba). JIP was a private equity firm that took over the troubled electronics corporation in late 2023. The deal, which had been labeled one of the largest leveraged... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Borrowing and Debt; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; 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 Semiconductor Industry... 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
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 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
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210020/ The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Harvard Business School Case 610-003 When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything from a proprietary manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 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
  • 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
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

forward? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709404 Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation Harvard Business School Case 609-063 Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • Profile

Arthur Rock

his new partner Tommy Davis founded Davis & Rock, and went to work building what became Silicon Valley. When Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore became disenchanted working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1967, they turned to Rock for advice. He... View Details
  • 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