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Let the Games begin!
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author As budget season approaches the Company must decide which of its strategic concepts will be crystallized into real strategies by allocating to them our scarce resources. While the goal is to maximize shareholder value, the need for crisp decisions inevitably leads to budget games as old as the oldest profession.
Poetry and Cleantech Investing
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author I am occasionally asked by friends about prospects for all sorts of “green” technologies to have an impact on satisfying the world’s energy consumption.
Bah, Humbug
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author ’Tis the season for holiday cheer, max’d credit cards, and joyful gatherings. And every year around this time we hear at these gatherings of some poor soul who has lost his job in the run up to this merry season. What should we make of the Scrooges that wrote out
Thank you Japan
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author It was the Summer of 1987. I was sitting in my living room drinking Jack Daniels and listening to the Grateful Dead while trying to figure out what I was going to do next. I had just spent seven years on the M.I.T. faculty, teaching VLSI and doing research, but
Smaller, Faster, Cheaper – (Part 3)
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author [Part 2] We are seeing the research and development needed to stay at the leading edge of the semiconductor business increase steadily over the last few years. This has driven a consolidation of R&D into fewer bleeding edge players. This same phenomenon has also resulted in increasing buying power for
Smaller Faster Cheaper – (Part 1)
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author Craig Barrett used Smaller-Faster-Cheaper as a mantra at Intel for many years. This is truer today in the semiconductor business than it was even 10 years ago because the preponderance of the customers of the semiconductor industry has shifted from government, as it was in the early days, to industry
Magic Elixirs for Business
As one explores the dark and dangerous corridors of business one sometimes chances upon magic elixirs that can reduce monstrous challenges to a more manageable size. A few of these elixirs are illuminated below. The first magic elixir is, of course, great motivated people. I won’t say more about this other than to observe that
