Semiconductor Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Sep 2024
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How the U.S. Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

was named at the time) buy the Internet media company Excite in the largest Internet merger yet. It's heady stuff for a guy who started out in the unglamorous position of controller of a semiconductor firm after graduating from HBS. But... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity

uses. A slowdown in semiconductor demand post-2001 made it possible for the solar industry to take off by using excess polysilicon and silicon wafers. How to Win. In a downturn, getting to the breakeven point for a new venture and then to... View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

01 Jun 2010
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Three Profs Win McKinsey Award

Made in China REASON U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of consumer electronics and computers migrated to Asia. Electrophoretic display MADE IN TAIWAN REASON Its manufacture requires expertise developed from producing flat-panel LCDs, which migrated to Asia... View Details

Keywords: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution

humanity discovered how to use fire,” says Enriquez’s colleague, HBS associate professor Jonathan West. West, who had been researching the semiconductor industry for some ten years, came to the life sciences field rather recently.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Moore described the rise of the semiconductor industry and the uniquely fertile environment for startup companies in Silicon Valley, Arati Prabhakar of the National Institute of Standards and Technology discussed the future of the Silicon... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Mar 2025
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Forward Thinking

activities—such as space mining and microgravity manufacturing of specialized materials like semiconductors and optical fibers—could take a while to develop. “If you want to stay alive as a startup, one place where there are stickier... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Jan 2006
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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 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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