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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
a more modular fashion, a more decentralized fashion, and in a more cost-effective fashion as well. Katie Zandbergen: Along these lines, can you tell our listeners more about your recent project, which I believe has been very stealth over...
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- 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...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
it. Anibha Singh: Coming back to the product itself. So, most consumer facing financial service firms tend to adopt a modular product architecture, meaning that they can easily interface with a variety of players. Are you hoping to...
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- 04 Jan 2012
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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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- 18 Mar 2008
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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
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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
- 12 Feb 2008
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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
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
rapid appearance of clones drove a high level of standardization and modularity in the industry, and value was distributed along the value chain depending on levels of competition and ability to substitute components at each level. On the...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
big-bang implementations. It’s really something where you can pick a business process, a line of business, a region, so it’s much, much more modular and bite sized. We might not be the only vendor that they have. In reality, in 90 percent...
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- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly different architectures. Specifically, loosely coupled organizations will develop more modular designs than tightly coupled organizations....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
boundaries and property rights in a technical system. Bottlenecks are points of value creation and capture in any complex man-made system. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are first, an understanding of the modular structure...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
separated from manufacturing. When modularity is low, product designs can't be clearly specified and design choices affect manufacturing processes in subtle, difficult-to-predict ways (and vice versa). The second is the maturity of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
firms, less strongly across firms, and often violated in community-based development settings. The exceptions in turn were of two types: In four cases, closely collaborating teams within single firms created modular systems comprised of...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
dynamic strategy that can be employed by firms capable of architectural innovation. The strategy involves using knowledge of the bottlenecks in an architecture together with the modular operator "splitting" to shrink the...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
think even the future of how we think about spiritual community might be much more diverse than kind of the way we've been seeing it before. Derek van Bever: BSSE alum in our audience are thinking about interdependence and modularity...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
Todd Rose: So it gives you a couple of things. One is it starts to help you understand ... Clay has a theory called modularity interdependence, right? The notion is sometimes you have things that are very integrated and you can only do...
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