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While it is too early to know how the renewed interest in law and business schools will affect the demographics of the HLS and HBS student bodies, forecasts are mixed—especially at HLS—about a possible influx of Silicon Valley refugees...
WHAT HAPPENED: Exports of high-technology components have been hammered by the Silicon Valley bust. Japan's recession removes another potential buyer of Asian goods. Reform programs that followed the financial crisis of 1997-98 have stalled, leaving many banks and corporations heavily indebted. Political instability has hurt prospects for the Philippines and Indonesia...
Businesses are quicker than ever to cut off fired employees' access to computer systems and more willing than ever to go to court. This year Silicon Valley celebrated a landmark prosecution in which, after four years, Avant Corp. and seven of its current and former executives were forced to pay $220 million in fines and restitution for stealing secrets from a rival tech firm. Avant got information by paying off an engineer from the targeted firm...
Then providence intervened. Swedish telecom giant Ericsson decided that it had become too costly to produce all its wireless switching equipment and, after researching Silicon Valley's contract manufacturers, awarded a $300 million deal to Flextronics (whose revenues at the time were only $400 million). "That launched us in Europe almost overnight," says Marks. "There was no other contract manufacturing going on there, so we were able to move very quickly with other acquisitions...
Flextronics' most sophisticated operations, which manufacture routers for Cisco and wireless base stations for Ericsson, are based in places like Silicon Valley and Sweden, where top talent is available. Its most labor-intensive operations are still in China, where Flextronics mostly makes comparatively simple electronic products, from PC parts for Dell and mouse assemblies for Microsoft to cell phones for Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson...