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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
operations. Carliss Baldwin: A bookshelf and books provide a low-tech example. A bookshelf is designed to be between 12 and 24 inches in height and have a flat bottom and sides. That is a simple architecture with three flat interfaces.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
opted for the walking tour began by visiting an Arab fort and then the Sultan’s Palace — the first building to have electricity in Zanzibar — where we saw exhibits of copper and ivory artifacts, hippo tusks, wooden masks, and weavings. As we walked, we witnessed the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
regulatory architecture has barely begun. Rather than merely tightening credit, the challenge is to recalibrate the country's access to credit so that more responsibility for making good loans lies with lenders, and so that the burden is... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA7), forthcoming Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel development. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and David Dreyfus Abstract—In this paper, we test a method for visualizing and measuring software portfolio architectures and use our measures to predict the costs of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
between the structure of a development organization and the architecture of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often said to "mirror" the architectures of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
computer architecture department, and I had enjoyed technical internships at Sandia National Laboratories and Apple. But something didn’t feel right. I had always been fascinated by the nexus of business, technology, and policy – but to... View Details
- Web
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
short-term success and long-term innovation Build your organization’s architecture by understanding the relationship between its hardware (structure, processes, and systems) and its software (capabilities and culture) Discover how to set... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
the system, the harder it is to manage that balance. Wang: We talked about bitcoin. And Scott, you mentioned stablecoins, but there are other altcoins and tokens, as well. What are the differences? Kominers: Bitcoin was the original cryptocurrency, and its underlying... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data from 13 business units and 22 innovations, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
architecture to effective leadership storytelling. Think about it directionally as past, present, future.” If you’re left holding the bag as a manager at a company that’s laying off its employees, what should you do? We suggest telling a... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
administrations can be a hindrance to positive change. “There are huge design opportunities in Africa,” said John Fernandez, an architecture professor at MIT and the director of the MIT Urban Metabolism Group, a multidisciplinary research... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
have added phones and other functions. But no cameras, Tyneski said. RIM's primarily business users can't take cameras into many business and government sites. The architecture of a device needs to represent the function, Tyneski... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Photography.” Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present , ed. Monica Jovanovich and Melissa Renn. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., 2019, 63–76. Elson,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
project,” says Oakes, who brings experience in finance and development to the table, plus a degree in architecture and the ability to flowchart anything. “It takes figuring out where there might be opportunities, and then being willing to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Cathedral. Even the design of the HBS campus began as an architecture competition. Contests work well when we don't know what the right approach may be to a problem. Today they're used in a variety of situations, from creating logos to... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
A variety of academic work argues a relationship exists between the structure of a development organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often said to "mirror" the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
present tangible ways in which it can do so (and why).” What I’m Reading “A brilliant materials scientist takes us through the remarkable histories and properties of the world around us, from self-healing concrete to the molecular View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
best decisions and undermine our service experiences in the process. Behavioral science and economics has identified choice architecture as one path for helping consumers make better decisions in these circumstances – “nudging” them... View Details