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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 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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- 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
- 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
- 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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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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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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- 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
- Web
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
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
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
- Web
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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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
learn these skills of innovation, because the theories are there, but it's hard to apply modularity and interdependence when you don't have empathetic perspective. Chris Diak: Right. You won't have a real sense of the meaning of those...
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