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- 2019
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the means by which firms capture value in open platform systems. I begin by arguing that the surplus value created by complementarities within a technical system will be split among the owners of the unique and essential... View Details
Keywords: Open Platforms; Bottlenecks; Flow Production; Value Capture; Disintermediation; Production; Management; Digital Platforms
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-054, November 2019.
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
San Francisco Frist (MBA 1997, MBA 2001) Family Financial Aid Fund “I received a small grant from a planned gift, and I’ve often thought how inspired it was so many years ago that somebody thought to encourage more management skills in... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Vicki Sato, Professor of Management Practice at HBS, discussed their partnership furthering the commercialization of science. Befitting the symposium’s setting in Aldrich Hall, the daylong event... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Endowment Grows to $32 Billion
The Harvard endowment grew by 21.4 percent to $32 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, up $4.4 billion from the year before, according to the annual report by Harvard Management Company. Every asset class advanced, led by a 34.6... View Details
Keywords: Endowment
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than exciting. "I've had people say to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Join in the Centennial
You don’t have to be on campus to tap into HBS Centennial events. The School’s yearlong celebration now has a Web home — www.hbs.edu/centennial/. The site gives the Centennial 21st-century global reach tailored for an alumni audience on which the sun never sets. On the... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
more about handling business-related adversity—unexpected obstacles, setbacks, failures, and disappointments, “situations that outstrip your immediately available set of resources, knowledge, and skills,” he said. Managers are faced with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- May 2006
- Case
Esterline Technologies: Lean Manufacturing
By: Richard L. Nolan, Karen A. Brown and Subodha Kumar
Raises the issue of the appropriate role of IT in lean manufacturing. Most large manufacturing companies have implemented ERP IT systems to support lean manufacturing practices. The Kerry plant of Esterline Technologies attempted an ERP implementation and then... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Technological Innovation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Production; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry
Nolan, Richard L., Karen A. Brown, and Subodha Kumar. "Esterline Technologies: Lean Manufacturing." Harvard Business School Case 906-417, May 2006.
- 07 Jan 2013
- News
Not Just Another Web 2.0 Company, Yelp Basks In Its Star Power
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In Memoriam: Hugo Uyterhoeven
HBS Archives / Baker Library HBS Archives / Baker Library Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the HBS faculty for more than 50 years, died on January 29. He was 86 years old. Born in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School.” When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice, Nohria, drawing on his years of work in leadership, told... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- May 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Exercise
Endeca Negotiation, The: Hardy Smith
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Students play the role of Hardy Smith, one of the founding investors of a venture-backed enterprise software company. In the challenging financing climate of the fall of 2001, he is trying to decide what terms to offer the company as an insider-funded C-round. Presents... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Offer; Management Teams; Venture Capital; Valuation; Software; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Endeca Negotiation, The: Hardy Smith." Harvard Business School Exercise 802-213, May 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- May 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Exercise
Endeca Negotiation, The: Steve Papa
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Students play the role of Steve Papa, the CEO and founder of a venture-backed enterprise software company. In the challenging financing climate of the fall of 2001, he knows that two different groups are about to submit term sheets for his company's C-round. He is... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Offer; Management Teams; Venture Capital; Valuation; Software; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Endeca Negotiation, The: Steve Papa." Harvard Business School Exercise 802-212, May 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
We Invest in HBS Because...
undergraduates or executives, realize they can do more in life for themselves and for those around them." The Kramers support fellowships that enable nonprofit leaders to attend Executive Education programs and rising seniors to travel to HBS for the Summer Venture in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
whose new office is located in Concord, Massachusetts, will continue to pursue independent research in areas such as performance-based pricing, software pricing, and professional-service pricing; the management of large, industrial sales... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
(Wiley) Seelert, the chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi, based this collection of powerful stories on his most fundamental management lesson: “To succeed in business and in life, you have to know where you’re going, have the courage to take... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
academic freedom—the opportunity to focus on big ideas without the distraction of grant writing—is also a competitive advantage in recruiting faculty. Consequently, our work is pathbreaking and has impact on both practice and management... View Details
- January 2000 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Alloy.com: Marketing to Generation Y
By: John A. Deighton and Gil McWilliams
A profitable dot com company? Alloy.com retails clothing to teens by catalog. Alloy uses a Web site to convert prospects and build community. The result is a business with the economics of a direct marketer and the market capitalization of an Internet start-up. The... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business and Community Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Deighton, John A., and Gil McWilliams. "Alloy.com: Marketing to Generation Y." Harvard Business School Case 500-048, January 2000. (Revised June 2000.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
what Smith describes as “an open body stance.” No crossed arms (common for women) and definitely no fidgety hands in pockets (common for men). Other tips? Approach with confidence. Introduce yourself with a piece of information that will... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
Merchant When Ken Merchant arrived to begin teaching at HBS in 1978, he knew there was no other place he wanted to be. “At the time, HBS was the Mecca for the subject area about which I wanted to do research — management control systems,”... View Details