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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
for designing better plastic products. In software, a number of companies let people add custom-designed modules to their standard products and then commercialize the best of those components. Open-source software allows users to design,...
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by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance suffered and its customers were approached by...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms By:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
that is based on robotics. “The goal is for us to identify talent early, so that we can attract students into our graduate program and provide hope to primary schools kids and parents that there will be jobs and an employment future,” he says. The Dandelion methodology...
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Jennifer Myers
- 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...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
G. GoldbergHarvard Business School Case 310-086 Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
market in over-the-counter derivatives. Others focus on the social consequences of globalization and new modes of communication, evaluating the introduction of new information technologies into African communities and the collaborative practices of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
the quiet rule-breaking could mean developing code with management's approval for open-source external company projects. For mail carriers, the moral gray zone might mean finishing duties early yet staying "on the clock" until...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
competitive solutions from Microsoft and the open-source community threaten to hinder the company's long-term growth potential. Outlines virtualization technology and the dynamics that affect its market; covers the history of VMware;...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Cablevision, and Tellabs (a maker of telecommunications products) in the late 1960s and 1970s to more recent investments such as Red Hat (a global provider of Linux and open-source technology), Internet Security Systems, online...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
posting the problem chooses the solution. An example is InnoCentive.com, an eBay-like site where companies post scientific challenges. An innovation community is open and decentralized: Anyone can propose problems, offer solutions, and decide which ideas to use—as...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
remote-work models for years, focusing on what he calls “the geography of work” in organizations as diverse as the US Patent Office and open-source collaboration platform GitLab. In this conversation, he and Chandrasekar discuss the...
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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study incentives to invest in platform quality in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman and CEO of Segway LLC and creator of the Segway Human Transporter....
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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
coupling metrics (direct, indirect, and cyclic coupling). Our case is based on the Google Chromium project, an open-source project that has not yet been studied for this topic. Our findings show a strong relationship between...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
genome. Diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) while at HBS, Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) and several of his classmates established Prize4Life, which offers awards to incentivize ALS research. Last year, the nonprofit also unveiled a revolutionary View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
that, we can do that. She was like, run through those ideas again. And one of the ideas was based on an open-source project that I started in my last company with a guy named Lee Holloway, who’s our third co-founder and at Cloudflare. And...
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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
allowed them to find a shorter path to getting there. Hanna: Andela also has the learning groups, the open-source learning groups. And those are available to people who may not be part of the program. Sulyman: Yeah. And so, the way we...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and society, and that’s where I caught this start-up bug. And so my first big start-up adventure was actually with a company called Kaltura, which was creating an open-source video platform. I spent about six years there, as we penetrated...
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have failed to deliver on their promise and are often hurting rather than helping the development of strong consumer-brand relationships. Brand managers are losing control as consumers hijack brand meaning and engage in open-source...
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