Android - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53418 Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how app developers on the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2018
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Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

commoditization and the dangers of being strictly assemblers of commodity parts. And, of course, their penultimate differentiation has been software. But, as Android software continues to improve, they are facing highly competent... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

23 Jul 2013
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challenges of innovating in the Android value network in which firms specialized in only one part of the value chain, yet collectively they had to compete with a more vertically integrated Apple and its iPad. The case is intended to be... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon placed big bets on Google’s View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

hamper the growth of the Android platform may have merely shifted the sales to weak IP countries. This study sheds light on the emerging patent enforcement strategy literature by highlighting the heterogeneity in the efficacy of national... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2011
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Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

develop their own apps and profit from them, but Apple holds final authority over what gets sold on its platform. Compare Apple's controlled approach with Google, which runs its Android on open-source software, allowing users to customize... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar to Apple Health). The... View Details

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