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- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system's bottlenecks.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Digital Operations - Course Catalog
physical operations, the different constraints and bottlenecks each present, and how to combine bits and atoms effectively for scaling. Understand how digital integration leads to the unbundling and rebundling of operations and its... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Carliss Y. Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system's bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
to see a complex technical system in an abstract way and change the system's structure by rearranging its components. In this paper, I argue that the essence of dynamic architectural capabilities lies in the effective management of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology
manufacturing typewriters on a major scale. 16 Copying was another bottleneck for early information industries. In its earliest years, the Mercantile Agency’s only alternative to painstaking handwritten duplicates was the letter copying... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
and Norfolk Southern. Today, by most measures, freight rail is doing better than ever, while passenger rail faces significant challenges-though it is clear that numerous pain points and bottlenecks interfere with optimal use of rail to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
example, behavioral data can help sales teams optimize their outreach tactics. It could highlight bottlenecks in engineering, product development, and factory operations. “The idea here is that organizations can help employees use their... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
perspective. They have no natural resources, which makes them highly dependent on imports from foreign countries. From a climate-change perspective, everyone knows [the current model] isn't sustainable anymore. There's a diverse economic and social policy angle in... View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
Clubs News Clubs News It’s been a decade since the HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS) launched its signature Mentorship Program, aimed at helping local university and trade school students to prepare for life after graduation, both personally and professionally. The program... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator is a partnership between the foundation, Harvard Business School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The alliance is working to eliminate inefficiencies and View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
just create a bottleneck somewhere else. Real gains in productivity, he suggested, will probably come from integrated improvements across multiple components of the system. Finally, he offered, the economic barriers in biotech once again... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
lot of the concepts we learned in TOM (RC class Technology and Operations Management) about bottlenecks to ensure that our clients were quickly attended to.” Adding to the challenge of managing their volunteer team was the evolving... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
geographic office location," Stuart says. Although the research doesn't try to answer why corporate silos are so difficult to tear down, Stuart hopes the data will help managers understand, pinpoint, and remove bottlenecks within their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
how over the next thirty years the world is going to go through a bottleneck because of population and consumption growth. If we don’t make commitments now to conserve endangered places, they won’t be here thirty years from now. But... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Houston emphasizes. “How often does anyone get a chance to do that?” — DB Creating a Global Blueprint for Change: John Kim’s work as director of operations research at the Clinton Health Access Initiative focuses on fixing bottlenecks in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
that successful entrepreneurs do a great job of building relationships. Your approach to business is pretty intense. Are you a tough boss to work for? I try to be super supportive. I find co-workers who share my love for work, and my energy and drive. After that, I... View Details
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
customers. But in markets with price coherence, competition can actually make things worse for buyers, according to the researchers. Their paper describes a competitive bottleneck that happens when sellers turn to multiple intermediaries... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
conservative monetary policies would reduce bottlenecks to growth and further temper Brazil's high inequality. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711024-PDF-ENG Rebranding Gallagher Rohit Deshpande and Keith Chi-ho... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne