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  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical tasks can be modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

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
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Short Takes

should examine the issue of product architecture. Careful attention to modularity and intermodule coupling can dramatically lower the cost of change. Chinese Corporate Culture As China moves from a planned to a market-oriented economy,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

investments in architectural design can facilitate a more flexible innovation process. They observed successful firms creating a modular system that could accommodate the addition of new components without affecting the core... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • Web

Field Course: Foundry AI Lab - Course Catalog

underrepresented minorities, women, and founders in emerging markets or U.S. cities that aren’t startup hubs. Foundry will feature: 1) modular content – video rich and practical – providing comprehensive coverage of the concepts and... View Details
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation logics. We induce these ideas from the literature and with extended examples from Apple, NASA, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • News

Paths of Victory

continents. “We continue to build a new category in the digital manufacturing space. We empower engineering and manufacturing professionals to design, order, and commission custom factory equipment as fast as three days, through a self-serve cloud platform and View Details
Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51569 Building the Agile Enterprise: IT Architecture, Modularity and the Cost of IT Change By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerstrom, David Dreyfus, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—Recent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

South Asia - Global Activities 2021

of the unmet needs of senior executives from fast-growing companies operating in India and other emerging markets,” explains Krishna Palepu, faculty chair of SELPI and the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration. “The program's View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

incentives and compensation systems, is investigating his theory that effective measurement of performance must use subjective judgment and qualitative assessments in combination with objective measures. Professor Carliss Y. Baldwin, with Dean Kim B. Clark, is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

"I didn't focus people on the threat, especially those managing the new business. Where I did emphasize the threat was in working with the parent organization to get them off their butts and in arguing for resources." Modularize... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

can be done. Fortunately, there are a number of new ventures that promise to thwart the threat of coal with next-generation nuclear power plants in time to save the planet, if only the world will let them: NuScale Power specializes in small View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

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
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

factors in the study of deceptive behavior. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-096.pdf Modularity for Value Appropriation: Drawing the Boundaries of Intellectual Property Authors: Joachim Henkel and Carliss Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

newly approved Gen III+ nuclear reactors (e.g., AP-1000 variants or even the still-to-be-approved, but largely derivative Small Modular Reactors) are not likely to produce power cheaply enough to change the currently forecast build out of... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical systems. Specifically, we introduce the concept of "IP... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

the impact of price partitioning on the perception of value depends on the desirability of all parts of the deal offered. Q: The use of price partitioning in the market is on the increase. Why is this, and can you provide some examples? A: Electronic commerce... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

problems. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612017-PDF-ENG Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy! Willy ShihHarvard Business School Case 612-002 For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne