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  • 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
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Clearing the Air

development of Project Bison, a planned direct air capture (DAC) facility in southwest Wyoming. Our strategy is focused on what we’re calling “modular open system architecture.” We are trying to build as much modularity into our system as... View Details
Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge
  • 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

Clark, of Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity (2000), among many other publications and cases. At HBS, Baldwin has been a director of research, senior associate dean for faculty planning, and faculty chair of the Doctoral... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 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
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

teams tend to develop products with more modular architectures. Furthermore, the differences between systems are substantial—the pairs we examine vary by a factor of eight, in terms of the potential for a design change to propagate to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

the thin crossing points of the task network, which correspond to module boundaries. Therefore, transactions are more likely to be located at module boundaries than in their interiors. Several implications arise from this theory. Among these: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

software development, where his research reveals the benefits of agile processes and the value of modular designs Elizabeth Christoforetti Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti is the founding principal at Supernormal, an architecture, urban... View Details