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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
The great thing about standards, tech industry pundit Andrew Tanenbaum once said, is that there are so many to choose from. In fact, standard setting organizations (SSOs) are the unsung heroes of the technology age. Without standards, Web...
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- 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).
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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 View Details
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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...
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Natural Disasters;
Crisis Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Production;
Strategy;
Semiconductor Industry;
Semiconductor Industry;
Japan
Shih, Willy, and Margaret Pierson. "Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-071, April 2012.
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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- July 1993
- Teaching Note
Intel Corporation, 1992 TN
By: Kenneth A. Froot
Teaching Note for (9-292-106).
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- September 2009
- Case
Intel NBI: Image Components Organization
By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Image Components Organization (ICO) was an internal venture that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought to initially develop and sell a high performance integrated CMOS image sensor module for cellular phones. ICO's opening assumptions were that it...
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Business Startups;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Product Development;
Production;
Failure;
Diversification;
Semiconductor Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Thomas Thurston. "Intel NBI: Image Components Organization." Harvard Business School Case 610-028, September 2009.
- May 2008 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Intel NBI: Handheld Graphics Organization
By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Handheld Graphics Organization (HGO) was an internal start-up under Intel's New Business Incubator program. The unit designed a graphics co-processor for the handheld PDA market, to be sold with Intel's Xscale processor. Though NBI ventures were designed for a high...
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Business Startups;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Resource Allocation;
Business Processes;
Organizational Structure;
Semiconductor Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy C., and Thomas Thurston. "Intel NBI: Handheld Graphics Organization." Harvard Business School Case 608-098, May 2008. (Revised August 2009.)
- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Radical Collaboration: IBM Microelectronics Joint Development Alliances (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King
Teaching Note for [608121].
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Semiconductor Industry
- October 2005
- Case
Intel Corporation 2005
By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
Buoyed by strong recent sales growth but humbled by failed strategic bets and other missteps, Intel in 2005 initiated a major reorganization. Under its new CEO, Paul Otellini, the company shifted toward a "platform" model, inspired by the success of its Centrino...
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Restructuring;
Alignment;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Semiconductor Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Michael Slind. "Intel Corporation 2005." Harvard Business School Case 706-437, October 2005.
- February 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Background Note
Leader's (Dis)Advantage, The
Provides a rigorous description of the economic dynamics that may produce inherent advantages for large and/or first-mover firms within an industry, as well as those factors that may result in disadvantages for such leading firms. The leader advantages discussed...
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Coughlan, Peter J. "Leader's (Dis)Advantage, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 701-084, February 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
- December 1977 (Revised January 1981)
- Case
Teradyne, Inc.: The Hybrid Circuit Project
Keywords:
Semiconductor Industry
Shapiro, Benson P. "Teradyne, Inc.: The Hybrid Circuit Project." Harvard Business School Case 578-117, December 1977. (Revised January 1981.)
- June 1987 (Revised September 1987)
- Case
Semiconductors: U.S. Response to Japanese Ascendency
Keywords:
Competition;
Trade;
Business and Government Relations;
Semiconductor Industry;
Japan;
United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "Semiconductors: U.S. Response to Japanese Ascendency." Harvard Business School Case 387-210, June 1987. (Revised September 1987.)
- 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...
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by Martha Lagace
- March 1993 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
Intel Corporation: Going into OverDrive
In May 1992, Intel Corp., the leading supplier of microprocessors for IBM-compatible personal computers, announced the retail availability of OverDrive processors, a new line of performance upgrades for the Intel 486 series of microprocessors. The case chronicles the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Expansion;
Product Marketing;
Computer Industry;
Computer Industry;
Computer Industry
Dhebar, Anirudh S. "Intel Corporation: Going into OverDrive." Harvard Business School Case 593-096, March 1993. (Revised June 1994.)
- Profile
Arthur Rock
Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang...
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Sean Silverthorne