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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
is a specialist in "wafer probing," a highly specialized niche sandwiched between the "front-end" and the "back-end" of semiconductor manufacturing. Because the semiconductor industry uses modular processes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
challenges of innovating in the Android value network in which firms specialized in only one part of the value chain, yet collectively they had to compete with a more vertically integrated Apple and its iPad. The case is intended to be part of a discussion on View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
ODM provider. The case is a vehicle for discussing new market disruption and the impact of modularity and the evolution of the value network in the global PC supply chain. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
sequencing platform as a black box, much as people in other industries relied on specialization and a modular division of labor? Or did it take the kind of cross-training and cross-boundary work in which Zhang himself had invested two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
to other firms than non-star analysts. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13633 The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry Authors:Alan MacCormack, John... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
including 40 kinds of cheesecake. The average per-person check and return visits per restaurant are an estimated 50 percent higher than the industry average. In the kitchen, a modular menu process (revised every six months) keeps costs... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
boundaries and high in their interiors. Several novel implications arise from this work. Among these: Modularizations create new module boundaries, hence new transaction locations where entry and competition can arise. Areas in the task... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
teams tend to develop products with more modular architectures. Furthermore, the differences between systems are substantial—the pairs we examine vary by a factor of eight, in terms of the potential for a design change to propagate to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
the thin crossing points of the task network, which correspond to module boundaries. Therefore, transactions are more likely to be located at module boundaries than in their interiors. Several implications arise from this theory. Among these: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value Appropriation—How to Draw the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
Hollywood's efforts, but local Bollywood companies as well. Hollywood's efforts in India are far from a lost cause: all these problems can be addressed if a studio understands India and develops a coherent strategy. Is My Ip Threatened By Open Innovation? Working... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
crisis of the day and focus on the United States' role in the world. Read the paper: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/02/america_needs_a_chief_strategy_officer Working PapersModularity and Organizations Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
715-002 Indonesia: Growth and Stability in a Global Economy No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-004 NuScale Power-the Future of Small Modular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Sciences Modularity and Organizations By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Modularity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
provides an insider's perspective on what has made it so effective. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/sustainability-in-the-boardroom/ar/1 Working Papers Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical tasks can be modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
net social welfare remains inconclusive. We end by outlining challenges facing research in this area and propose an agenda for better modeling costs and benefits of financial regulation. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2343108 ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0986298603/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me= February 2015 Strategic Management Journal Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation logics. We induce these ideas from the literature and with extended examples from Apple, NASA, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne