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  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

China. It first considers legal aspects of reverse engineering in strong property rights regimes like the United States as a way of unpacking the legal issues. It considers the importance of tacit or unexposed knowledge, and whether View Details
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

architecture and IT agility. In particular, we use modular systems theory to examine how different types of coupling impact the ability to maintain, retire, and commission new software applications. We test our hypotheses with a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

rapid appearance of clones drove a high level of standardization and modularity in the industry, and value was distributed along the value chain depending on levels of competition and ability to substitute components at each level. On the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly different architectures. Specifically, loosely coupled organizations will develop more modular designs than tightly coupled organizations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

boundaries and property rights in a technical system. Bottlenecks are points of value creation and capture in any complex man-made system. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are first, an understanding of the modular structure... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

separated from manufacturing. When modularity is low, product designs can't be clearly specified and design choices affect manufacturing processes in subtle, difficult-to-predict ways (and vice versa). The second is the maturity of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

firms, less strongly across firms, and often violated in community-based development settings. The exceptions in turn were of two types: In four cases, closely collaborating teams within single firms created modular systems comprised of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

dynamic strategy that can be employed by firms capable of architectural innovation. The strategy involves using knowledge of the bottlenecks in an architecture together with the modular operator "splitting" to shrink the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing costs and the increasing modularity of products and services, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

a shift in the perceived boundaries in the value chain. Global Unichip sees itself as a "virtual integrated device manufacturer," a throwback to the vertically integrated model that fell out of favor for most chips. The case offers an opportunity to examine a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

broadly than operational boundaries, is likely to be a superior 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... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

modular architectures, and good stewardship of legacy systems. It rests on multiple, complementary platforms. It requires intellectual property rights to be present, but not too strong. Finally, it requires participants—both users and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 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
  • 18 Sep 2018
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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

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