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- November 2010
- Technical Note
Technical Note: An Abridged History of the American Corporation
By: Rakesh Khurana, Andrew David Klaber and Eric Baldwin
This note examines the development of the corporate form in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on legal issues. It identifies several major trends in the history of the American corporation: the transition of corporations... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Conference Presentation
Finding Potential Bottlenecks You Can Build a Platform Upon
- 1 Oct 2010
- Conference Presentation
The (Necessary) Virtue of Openness
- 1 Sep 2010
- Conference Presentation
Designs as Selfish Genes: Modularity, Options and Industry Structure
- 1 Sep 2010
- Conference Presentation
Using Architecture to Capture Value: The Case of Software
- 1 Aug 2010
- Conference Presentation
Explaining the Financial Meltdown - Discussion
- 1 Aug 2010
- Conference Presentation
Hidden Structure: Core-Periphery and Other Architectures
Keywords: Design
- 01 Jun 2010
- Conference Presentation
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Innovation
- 1 Jun 2010
- Conference Presentation
The Architecture of Complex Systems: Modularity, Options and Strategy
- 01 Jun 2010
- Conference Presentation
The Strategic Use of Architectural Knowledge by Entrepreneurial Firms
- 01 May 2010
- Conference Presentation
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Innovation
- 01 Apr 2010
- Conference Presentation
The Strategic Use of Architectural Knowledge by Entrepreneurial Firms
- 2010
- Working Paper
When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge
This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture... View Details
- January 2010 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A)
The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP investments of 2008, in order to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants. Students... View Details
- January 2010 (Revised March 2010)
- Supplement
The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (B)
The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP investments of 2008, in order to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants. This... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-periphery Structures Dominate?
By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak
Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems and associated components, some of which are core to system function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such "core-periphery" structures evolve and become embedded in a... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g. communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars... View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard