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Lured by the promise of free 256 megabyte USB flash drives, over 800 students flocked to a speech by the President and CEO of the semiconductor division at Samsung Electronics at the Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium yesterday, though some were disappointed when the free, pocket-sized memory disks ran out early...
...speech to the packed auditorium, Chang-Gyu Hwang both detailed the accomplishments of his company, particularly in the semiconductor technology field, and gave a subtle recruiting pitch targeted at Harvard Business School (HBS) students...
...heart of Hwang’s speech focused on lauding Samsung as a company. Among other things, Hwang chronicled how Samsung has the highest growth rate among any semiconductor brand, how it is one of only 10 companies that achieved one year profits of over $10 billion in history, and how it had an impressive 49 percent growth rate...
Bullies aren't confined to the schoolyard. Some grow out of it; others just grow older. That's what Christine Truffet-Lefebvre learned from her job at the semiconductor manufacturing equipment firm Nikon Precision Europe. For her first three years as a secretary at a plant 30 km south of Paris, she enjoyed her work - and, she says, the respect of her boss. But after Truffet-Lefebvre, now 45, was divorced in 2000, she says her manager's attitude changed. "For him, the divorce meant that I would now be free to work on evenings and weekends," she says. "When...
AWARDED. An $8.1 million settlement to SHUJI NAKAMURA, 50, engineer who helped Nichia Corp. develop the blue light-emitting diode (LED), a semiconductor device used in everything from cell phones to traffic lights; by Tokyo's High Court; in Tokyo. Piqued by a $200 bonus for what Nichia claimed was merely a contribution to a team project, Nakamura sued his former employer in 2001, seeking a greater share of the profits from its LED patents and winning $194 million from a district judge. Although that decision was overturned, the $8 million payout, which Nakamura reluctantly accepted, marks the largest-ever...