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  • 18 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

Keywords: by Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein & Rebecca Henderson
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM Authors:Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • May 2014
  • Article

Mobile Computing: The Next Platform Rivalry

By: Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein
Competition to become one of several dominant mobile platforms is intense. Platforms compete for developers, who create applications which make the platform valuable for users. Why doesn't one form of platform governance emerge as superior? This essay will stress the... View Details
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2001
  • Article

The Economic Contribution of Information Technology: Towards Comparative and User Studies

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein
By what process does technical change in information technology (IT) increase economic welfare? How does this process result in increases in welfare at different rates in different countries and regions? This paper considers existing literature on measuring the... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Welfare; Information Technology; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel