Publications

2006
Working Paper

The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community

By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards

September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
Case

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein

Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In... View Details

Keywords: Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Change Management; Supply Chain Management; Legal Liability; Business Processes; Legal Services Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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July 2006
Article

Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code

By: Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Information; Internet and the Web

2003
Working Paper

The Architecture of Cooperation: Does Code Architecture Mitigate Free Riding in the Open Source Development Model?

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark

06 Dec 2021
News

Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced

local farmers. Mission: Chaku’s sourcing model helps Ghanian farmers mitigate crop loss, which can run as high as 40 percent because of processing and exporting challenges. Okrah lived close to those farmers in Kumasi, an agrarian region... View Details

Keywords: agriculture; Africa; food manufacturing; entrepreneurship; startup; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

July 13, 2023
Article

Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu

Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history. One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already popular social media platform Instagram, also owned by Meta—a feature... View Details

Keywords: Decentralization; Twitter; Facebook; Instagram; Crypto Economy; Blockchain; Network; Industrial Organization; Competition; Open Innovation; Open Platforms; Open Source Innovation; Social Networks; Social Media; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry

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11 Jun 2006 - 13 Jun 2006
Conference Presentation

Exploring the Links Between Product and Organizational Architectures: An Empirical Study of Open and Closed Source Software

By: Alan MacCormack

Keywords: Product Design; Organizational Structure; Software

20 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

1 Apr 2005 - 4 Apr 2005
Conference Presentation

Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code

By: Alan MacCormack

Keywords: Applications and Software; Product Design; Complexity

July 2006
Article

The Architecture of Participation: Does Code Architecture Mitigate Free Riding in the Open Source Development Model?

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Internet and the Web

Article

Strategies for the Bottom of the Economic Pyramid: India as a Source of Innovation

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Keywords: Strategy; Economics; Innovation and Invention; India

18 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Karim Lakhani

2014
Chapter

Mergers and Acquisitions and Innovation

By: Gautam Ahuja and Elena Novelli

This article (a) identifies the different theoretical perspectives and abstractions used to conceptualize the M&A–Innovation relationship; (b) reviews the literature on antecedents, consequences, and integration of M&A in the context of innovation; and (c) identifies... View Details

Keywords: Mergers; Acquisitions; Innovation; Knowledge-bases; Knowledge; Mergers and Acquisitions; Innovation and Invention

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10 Jul 2014
News

How Harvard Medical School Uses Open Innovation To Solve World-Class Scientific Problems

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

usability? How do we innovate and add value to our customers’ experience? There’s a difference between how you build a product and how you engage or show up in the world. On the latter, the company is doing a lot around external affairs... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

March 2008 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Linden Lab: Opening Second Life

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

In early 2008, managers in Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, faced decisions about the company's strategy. Despite profound initial skepticism about demand for a user-generated virtual world that was not a traditional game, Second Life had achieved... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Software

November 2021
Article

Digital Infrastructure Is More Than Just Broadband: What the U.S. Can Learn from Europe's Open Source Technology policy study

By: Frank Nagle

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution; Economic Growth; United States; European Union