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  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

it), the development cycle is significantly shorter. Proponents of OSS claim that if this demand-side learning (as we call it) is sufficiently strong, OSS will oust traditional software. In addition, software engineers claim that the better View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006 it was not clear whether Opteron's success in the server segment would translate into success in other microprocessor segments, notably corporate desktop and laptop, and whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

working paper shows that the costs faced by multinational corporations in managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-003.pdf The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

Case 517-021 Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture While companies choose to brand their products and services in many different ways, there are some central tenets that help define an optimal brand portfolio and associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

more elusive than ever. A recent McKinsey study reveals that the annual churn in the wireless industry increased from 17 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 2000. This trend holds true even in industries less... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

Modularity in Software Ecosystems: How SugarCRM's IP and Business Model Shape Its Product Architecture Authors:Watl, Josef, Joachim Henkel, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Publication:Software Business: Proceedings of the Third International... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Glaeser, William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto Publication:Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

interest in a concept of competitive strategy more closely grounded in industrial organization economics; and third, with the development of a new course in entrepreneurial management more closely linked to business policy's concerns with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users and also open collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

opportunity to explore the numerous, interconnected elements of an organization's architecture that must be in alignment in order for it to effectively execute its chosen strategy. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1815370 Strategy as Innovation: Emergent Goal Formation in a Nascent Industry Authors:Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Building on research in strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

solutions. Such a relationship is important, given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and even the path of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

  Working PapersCollaborative Architectures for Innovation Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Abstract Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

novel proposals. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2184791 IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Henkel, Joachim, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-067.pdf How Firm Strategies Influence the Architecture of Transaction Networks Authors:Jianxi Luo, Daniel E. Whitney, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

industries may split apart. Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Periodical:Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 2, Psychology Press,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

coevolutionary model of technological frames and the technology life cycle to explain sources of variation in the era of ferment, conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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