Architectural Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and will launch a research-based studio with the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in spring 2023. The studio, says Dlodlo, will focus on urbanism, innovative... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

01 Feb 2002
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If You're #1, Watch Out

based upon cost, customization, or convenience, and they can start winning business at the lower end." Profit is maximized, the authors suggest, in situations where product quality is not yet meeting customer requirements. Here, products with tightly interdependent,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

08 Jul 2024
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The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

24 Apr 2014
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Seeing glass in a new light

buildings, dynamic glass dramatically increases flexibility in architectural design while reducing energy consumption. As CEO of View Dynamic Glass, Mulpuri has succeeded in taking this 50-year-old nanotechnology to market and is leading... View Details

09 May 2022
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Green House

In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in... View Details

15 Sep 2003
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The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

to devote any engineering resources to leveraging these technologies. Teradyne's established customers tested high-end components such as microprocessors, for which CMOS architecture was too slow and inaccurate. What's more, a switch to a... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

investments in architectural design can facilitate a more flexible innovation process. They observed successful firms creating a modular system that could accommodate the addition of new components without... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom

according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for innovating and gaining a competitive edge.... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2024
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What is Web3?

Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51569 Building the Agile Enterprise: IT Architecture, Modularity and the Cost of IT Change By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerstrom, David Dreyfus, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—Recent contributions to information systems... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Feb 2012
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Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

process often sparks ideas that lead to creation of innovative new products, Shih explains. So when American companies allow the production of high-tech products like televisions and memory chips to disappear from the local landscape,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

24 Apr 2014
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Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward

opportunities and rapid decline. Lerner, author of The Architecture of Innovation (HBS Press, 2012), also found that corporate venture funds invested in start-up companies provide an alternative to in-house... View Details

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

short-term success and long-term innovation Build your organization’s architecture by understanding the relationship between its hardware (structure, processes, and systems) and its software (capabilities... View Details

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Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship - MBA

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25 Jun 2013
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Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

23 Jun 2015
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Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015... View Details