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  • Summer 2013
  • Article

IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property

By: Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Willy C. Shih
Firms seeking to take advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical systems. Specifically, this article introduces the concept of "IP... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Appropriation; Distributed Innovation; Open Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Intellectual Property; Value
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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

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
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
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  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

  Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

  Working PapersCompetition in Modular Clusters Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters,"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

human capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-013.pdf Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller "Footprint" Strategy Authors:Carliss View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity

    We live in a dynamic economic and commercial world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: December 20

    results across various studies. The findings are discussed with regard to the boundary conditions and potential underlying processes of the UTE.   Working PapersThe Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation Authors:Carliss View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 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
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    • 16 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 16

    Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Publication:Research Policy 41, no. 8 (October 2012) Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 May 2016
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    May 10, 2016

    Exceptions By: Colfer, Lyra J., and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g.,... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 12 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 12

    blend the two models? Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/do-you-really-want-to-be-an-ebay/ar/1 Prize-based Contests Can Provide Solutions to Computational Biology Problems Authors:Lakhani, Karim R., Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Carliss... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 2, 2010

    http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPREMNET/Resources/EP31.pdf   Working PapersWhen Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

    innovation has worked to create a vast array of valuable products, from cancer treatments to airplanes. But alongside it, Professor Carliss Y. Baldwin argues, there is a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 22 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

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

    economics research, business academics and managers will have the power to substantially improve both the practice of business and the welfare of society. My hope is that we will use that power responsibly. Carliss View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Strategy - Doctoral

    Boston College, Carroll School of Management, Information Systems Department Advisors: Shane M. Greenstein , Carliss Y. Baldwin , Dennis A. Yao , and Prithwiraj Choudhury... View Details
    • 2019
    • Chapter

    Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Return on invested capital (ROIC) is a financial measure of the profitability of a firm or business unit. If it is greater than the business's cost of capital, then reinvestment of earnings increases shareholder VALUE. The ROIC also determines a maximum self-sustaining... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Efficiency; Dupont Analysis; Financial Metrics; Schumpeterian Competition; Sustainable Growth; Competitive Advantage; Financial Strategy; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Value Creation
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    • October 2007 (Revised November 2010)
    • Module Note

    Evaluating M&A Deals-Equity Consideration

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    What the acquiring company pays for a target in a merger or acquisition is called "consideration." Consideration can be in the form of cash, shares, or a combination of the two. Lays out the basic mechanics of equity consideration. Derives formulas for the Deal NPV of... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Equity
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    Placement - Doctoral

    School of Management, Information Systems Department Dissertation: Knowledge flows across firm boundaries: Strategic implications of openness Advisors: Shane M. Greenstein , Carliss Y. View Details