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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

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

Asian industrial cluster with global scope which has no participants or competitors in the West. The case can also be used to expose students to the global supply chain for key information technology components. Taiwan and Korea are today the major world centers for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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
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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
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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

April 2025
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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

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09 May 2021
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Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

most important person in my life meant so much to me! *** Name: Ashley Chang Child: Jonas (almost 6 years) and Clement (2.5 years) Student Status: EC Where are you from? Taiwan Professional pathway pre-HBS: I was a product manager in the View Details

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

01 Jun 2008
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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

28 Apr 2009
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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

15 Jun 2010
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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

July 2013 (Revised November 2021)
Module Note

Exploration vs. Exploitation

By: Willy Shih

This module note introduces James March's concept of exploration and exploitation, and the management challenge of balancing the allocation of resources to the two activities in the firm. The note also touches on the O'Reilly and Tushman paper on the ambidextrous... View Details

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19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

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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

23 Feb 2009
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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
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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

02 Sep 2008
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congruence. Performance appraisals with 360-degree feedback improves congruence and collaboration, opens communication when feedback is discussed by the team, and provides an opportunity for more accurate self-assessments. An example of how 360-degree feedback was used... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

IBM's "Radical Collaboration" model has been an innovative approach to meeting the challenges of the huge R&D and capital investments that are needed to stay competitive in the global semiconductor industry. This model has... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2008
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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

28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

although patenting in neural networks saw a strong burst of activity in the 1990s that has only recently been surpassed. In all technological fields, the number of patents per inventor has declined near-monotonically, except for large increases in inventor productivity... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Arthur Rock

First Look: October 21, 2008

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

First Look: June 21

First Look: September 15

Japan Industrial Partners Powers the Leveraged Buyout of Toshiba

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

A Binary Formula

First Look: April 28, 2009

First Look: June 15

Exploration vs. Exploitation

Quantum Leap

Overview

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

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First Look: April 29, 2008

First Look: July 29, 2008

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018