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22 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

What does it take to put a price tag on open source software (OSS), a resource so critical to the global economy that some 96 percent of commercial programs include some code created, tinkered with, or distributed for free by... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

April 1990
Case

Perrier Recall: A Source of Trouble

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

When a laboratory discovered traces of the carcinogen benzene in bottles of Perrier, Group Perrier of America immediately announced a voluntary U.S. recall of all Perrier brand imported water. This case describes press coverage of the U.S. recall and the worldwide... View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Food and Beverage Industry

October 1983 (Revised December 1984)
Background Note

Sources and Patterns of Management Authority

By: George C. Lodge, Janice McCormick, Richard E. Walton and Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Management Style

23 Jul 2021
Video

Ouided Bouchamaoui - Source (Open Captions)

March 2015
Article

Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage

By: Humberto Brea-Solís, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Emili Grifell-Tatjé

We develop an analytical framework on the basis of the economics of business performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative... View Details

Keywords: Business Models; Quantitative Analysis; Walmart; Production Theory; Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Profit

May 2019
Background Note

Sources of Capital for Black Entrepreneurs

By: Steven Rogers, Stanley Onuoha and Kayin Barclay

This note was written primarily for black entrepreneurs in order to help them raise capital. The second objective was to recognize the capital providers who are part of the solution to the problem of less than 2% of private equity capital and 1.7% of debt capital in... View Details

Keywords: Black Entrepreneurs; Access To Capital; Capital; Entrepreneurship; Prejudice and Bias

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2010
Chapter

New Sources in Living Kidney Donation

By: Ruthanne L. Hanto, Alvin E. Roth, M. Utku Ünver and Francis L. Delmonico

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Industry

Article

The Scope of Open Source Licensing

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

Keywords: Technology

17 Jun 2008
Keynote Speech

Self-Organization in Open Source Development: Discussion

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Product Development; Software

June 2002
Article

Some Simple Economics of Open Source

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

Keywords: Economics

2009
Working Paper

Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms

By: Gaston Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde

We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two novel aspects of the model are: (1) participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Structures; Open Source Distribution; Research and Development

March 2001
Background Note

Real Options Valuation when Multiple Sources of Uncertainty Exist

This case describes how multiple sources of uncertainty can be incorporated into a real-options-based analysis. It works through an example of a two-stage problem where a company has both an option to explore and an option to develop oil reserves. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Valuation

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Business Source Complete | Baker Library

Business Source Complete Academic articles and company/industry reports. Includes Harvard Business Review full-text. Read More Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more. Get... View Details

October, 2022
Article

The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details

02 Mar 2022
News

Harvard Census Identifies Most Commonly Used Open Source Packages

October 1976
Background Note

Note on Sources of Social Power