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  • December 2005
  • Case

IBM and Eclipse (A)

IBM faces a collective action problem: It open sourced its $40 million application platform and has to convince other companies to contribute. Explores the events leading up to IBM's decision to make the Eclipse platform available as an Open Source project. In 1998,... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Cooperation; Adoption; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

(CD) and the compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM) and, again with Philips, the digital videodisk (DVD). By the 1990s Philips's functional capabilities were unable to meet the Japanese competition. Its technical capabilities had been... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

retailers’ annual sales, so it is a critical time to get retail execution right. Dynamic pricing strategies must be carefully executed to maximize margins while driving volume. Inventory turns must be carefully monitored so that physical and View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing, PCs. And that defined the... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Data and Machine Learning By: Guo, Xiaojia, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Bert De Reyck Abstract—Problem definition: In collaboration with Heathrow Airport, we develop a predictive system that generates quantile forecasts of transfer passengers’ connection times. Sampling... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2001
  • Case

Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Solaris Strategy

In the late 1990s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris has emerged as the dominant UNIX-based alternative to Microsoft for server operating systems. At the same time, the open source operating system Linux has appeared unexpectedly, and it is generating significant excitement... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Standards
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  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing home page, and with new offerings for advertisers and affiliates as well as video... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Summer 2015
  • Article

Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes
We study incentives to invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the platform owner.... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Investment
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  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

likely to be impacted by government legislation and regulation and the least prepared to help shape the rules. —Watkins, Edwards, & Thakrar Businesses cooperate to create economic value; they compete to distribute or claim the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • July 2004 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Linux in 2004

By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Brian Subirana and Christina Pham
A new technology platform conceived in the early 1990s, Linux developed into a force to be reckoned with in the operating system marketplace. At first, Linux was dismissed as a renegade option used only by tech geeks. By 2004, however, Linux had exploded into the... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Open Source Distribution; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry
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  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

pre-specified age, his shares are liquidated and the proceeds are distributed to the other contributors to the MIF. Contributors who are alive at the pre-specified age are also paid the value of their accumulated shares. Like tontines, of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Zoom buttons on digital devices let us examine images from many viewpoints. They also provide an apt metaphor for modes of strategic thinking.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

Innovations has become the fastest growing hearing aid company in the world since its IPO in 2000. Through the development and use of the smallest single-chip digital signal processor platform ever installed in a hearing aid, they bring... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 08 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

Information Age business innovations include: Digital production and distribution technologies (broadband and wireless networks, sophisticated content creation, flexible knowledge management) An operating... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
  • June 2022
  • Case

Zalando: Becoming the Starting Point for Fashion

By: Antonio Moreno, Leela Nageswaran, Emilie Billaud and Federica Gabrieli
Born in 2008 as a small startup selling flip flops, by mid-2021 Zalando had turned into an online fashion company with an assortment of more than 4,500 international brands, 45 million active customers, and a presence in 23 European markets. An essential component in... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Digital Platforms; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Service Operations; Strategy; Business Strategy; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Europe
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  • March 1998
  • Case

Launch

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
Launch has developed an entertainment publication on CD-ROM with 240,000 subscribers and has recently introduced an on-line entertainment product (www.mylaunch.com) to complement the CD-ROM. Deals with multiple-channel delivery and platform selection and branding on... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Distribution Channels; Information Publishing; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Publishing Industry
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

IP Modularity in Software Ecosystems: How SugarCRM's IP and Business Model Shape Its Product Architecture

By: Josef Waltl, Joachim Henkel and Carliss Y. Baldwin
Keywords: Business Model; Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Complexity; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property
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  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization. At Kodak, for example, CEO George Fisher attempted to move the company into the digital era in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

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