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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
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
- 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...
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
strategy. Firms can also strategically “break the mirror” in two ways: by implementing modular partitions within their own boundaries or by building relational contracts that support technical interdependency across their boundaries....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
shipping systems, and felt driven by a moral obligation to remake every facet of the company's ecosystem. The initiative drastically changed how Interface manufactured, distributed, and sold its carpet--including the production of carpet not as entire floor units, but...
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by Dina Gerdeman