Publications

A consistent finding in many studies of innovation is the repeated failure of established firms when faced with radical changes in their core markets or technologies. Professor MacCormack's research takes the view that many of these failures can be attributed to the... View Details

June 2006
Teaching Note

D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer (TN)

Keywords: Computer Industry

April 2006
Background Note

Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 1: Innovation and Uncertainty

Describes the first module of a Harvard Business School 30-session elective course called Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The... View Details

Keywords: Design; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management; Projects; Opportunities; Perspective

Educators

March 2006
Background Note

Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Course Overview Note

The Harvard Business School Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes multiple levels of analysis--from creating and executing... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management; Projects; Opportunities; Perspective; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk and Uncertainty; Problems and Challenges; Managerial Roles

Educators

March 2006
Module Note

Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World

Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Perspective; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Managerial Roles; Product Design; Business Startups; Organizational Design

April 2002 (Revised April 2002)
Teaching Note

A Note on Organizational Design at Yahoo! TN

Teaching Note for (9-602-112). Includes color exhibits. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Web Services Industry

September 2001 (Revised March 2006)
Teaching Note

Microsoft Office 2000 TN

Teaching Note for (9-600-023), (9-600-097), and (9-600-502). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; District of Columbia

May 2006
Teaching Note

Activision: The 'Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer' Project (TN)

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry

March 2006
Teaching Note

Siemens ShareNet: Building a Knowledge Network (TN)

Keywords: Knowledge; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

December 2004
Supplement

D-Wave: An Interview with Seth Lloyd, Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering at MIT

Keywords: Engineering

22 Apr 2014
News

Putting a spell on theatergoers

Alan Horn (MBA 1971) has brought a touch of magic to the big screen and record-breaking numbers to the bottom line as chairman of Walt Disney Studios and former president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Entertainment. At... View Details

13 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 13

the reduction in store size was associated with TFP of retail chains falling by 0.4% per annum, or 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. China's Growing IT Services and Software Industry: Challenges and Implications... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Other Article

Introduction

By: Stefano Brusoni, Joachim Henkel, Michael G Jacobides, Samina Karim, Alan MacCormack, Phanish Puranam and Melissa Schilling

In 2000, Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark published Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, a book that introduced new ways of understanding and explaining the architecture of complex systems. This Special Issue of Industrial and Corporate Change celebrates... View Details

Keywords: Complex Systems; Industry Structure; Systems Design; Complexity; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Innovation and Management