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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
constrained innovation environment, defined by modular boundaries that are long standing in the industry that it serves, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry. While the original motivation for these boundaries was division of...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the platform itself) remain stable,...
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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
innovation with more recent work on open innovation. These fundamentally different and inconsistent innovation logics are associated with contrasting organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical tasks can be View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
development of Project Bison, a planned direct air capture (DAC) facility in southwest Wyoming. Our strategy is focused on what we’re calling “modular open system architecture.” We are trying to build as much modularity into our system as...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Clark, of Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity (2000), among many other publications and cases. At HBS, Baldwin has been a director of research, senior associate dean for faculty planning, and faculty chair of the Doctoral...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
focused niche strategy have an ultimate advantage in the creation of novelty. This is partly because a focused new idea can more closely correspond to a new firm than is possible in vertical or modular industry structures: Everything...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
architecture. In particular, we draw from modular systems theory to develop a series of hypotheses about how different types of coupling impact the ability to update, remove, or replace the software applications in a firm’s portfolio. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
SilvestriHarvard Business School Case 411-095 The case traces the evolution of Jones Lang LaSalle's organization and strategy between the years 2005-2008, as it transitioned from a modular to an integrated structure. The case protagonist,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708445 Horizontal Specialization and Modularity in the Semiconductor Industry Harvard Business School Note 609-001 Well-codified interfaces have enabled horizontal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
China. It first considers legal aspects of reverse engineering in strong property rights regimes like the United States as a way of unpacking the legal issues. It considers the importance of tacit or unexposed knowledge, and whether View Details
- 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
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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:...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
enrollment growth. Global program tuition continued to grow as a percentage of total Executive Education revenue in fiscal 2018. This growth was largely driven by increased participation in longer modular programs that include time spent...
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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
organization, specifically, closed-source (or proprietary) versus open-source (or distributed) development. Our results reveal significant differences in modularity, consistent with a view that distributed teams tend to develop more View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. With support from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve (MBA 1982) Pagliuca and employing a unique modular design, the facility could be quickly assembled to open in less than six months.
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
guiding certification’s trajectory towards the markets its best suited to serve. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54929 Harvard Business School Case 419-016 Christine Lagarde For a modular...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of concepts: how to orchestrate a large number of subsidiary deals, often grouped into View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
architecture and IT agility. In particular, we use modular systems theory to examine how different types of coupling impact the ability to maintain, retire, and commission new software applications. We test our hypotheses with a unique...
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Sean Silverthorne