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  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

provides an insider's perspective on what has made it so effective. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/sustainability-in-the-boardroom/ar/1   Working Papers Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

take it from a traditional supplemental publishing company to a competitive player in the educational technology space. Waldron and the CA team-through innovations in curricular design, investments in technology, and a rigorous understanding of the Common Core State... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

constrained innovation environment, defined by modular boundaries that are long standing in the industry that it serves, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry. While the original motivation for these boundaries was division of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

net social welfare remains inconclusive. We end by outlining challenges facing research in this area and propose an agenda for better modeling costs and benefits of financial regulation. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2343108  ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

innovation with more recent work on open innovation. These fundamentally different and inconsistent innovation logics are associated with contrasting organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical tasks can be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008

huge impact on the business models of major record labels. Modularity, and the commoditization spill-over enabled by modularity in the personal computer industry, was a major force in the development of the market. While Apple's iPod... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

strategy. Firms can also strategically “break the mirror” in two ways: by implementing modular partitions within their own boundaries or by building relational contracts that support technical interdependency across their boundaries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

shipping systems, and felt driven by a moral obligation to remake every facet of the company's ecosystem. The initiative drastically changed how Interface manufactured, distributed, and sold its carpet--including the production of carpet not as entire floor units, but... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

platform systems, showing that, in contrast to step processes, this technology rewards the multiplication of options, increasing risk, and modularity. Moreover, given a modular architecture, a platform system can be open, with different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

guiding certification’s trajectory towards the markets its best suited to serve. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54929 Harvard Business School Case 419-016 Christine Lagarde For a modular... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

is a specialist in "wafer probing," a highly specialized niche sandwiched between the "front-end" and the "back-end" of semiconductor manufacturing. Because the semiconductor industry uses modular processes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

architecture. In particular, we draw from modular systems theory to develop a series of hypotheses about how different types of coupling impact the ability to update, remove, or replace the software applications in a firm’s portfolio. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

SilvestriHarvard Business School Case 411-095 The case traces the evolution of Jones Lang LaSalle's organization and strategy between the years 2005-2008, as it transitioned from a modular to an integrated structure. The case protagonist,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
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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 enabled horizontal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the platform itself) remain stable,... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

focused niche strategy have an ultimate advantage in the creation of novelty. This is partly because a focused new idea can more closely correspond to a new firm than is possible in vertical or modular industry structures: Everything... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of concepts: how to orchestrate a large number of subsidiary deals, often grouped into View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

organizations will develop more modular designs than tightly coupled organizations. We test this hypothesis using a sample of matched-pair products. We find strong evidence to support the mirroring hypothesis. In all of the pairs we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

organization, specifically, closed-source (or proprietary) versus open-source (or distributed) development. Our results reveal significant differences in modularity, consistent with a view that distributed teams tend to develop more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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