Carliss Y. Baldwin
Carliss Y. Baldwin
William L. White Professor of Business Administration
| Unit | Finance |
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| Contact | (617) 495-6673 Send E-Mail |
| Interests | design evolution, modularity, real options, technological innovation, more > |
| Overview | Biography | Publications & Course Materials | Current Research | Areas of Interest |
Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. With Kim B. Clark, she is involved in a multi-year project to study the process of design and its impact on the structure of the computer industry. She and Clark have authored Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity, the first of a projected two volumes on this topic. Volume 2, in progress, will focus on Architecture and Strategy.
Featured Work
Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions and the Boundaries of Firms
Industrial and Corporate Change, January, 2008.
This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms.
The Architecture of Platforms
with C. Jason Woodard. To appear in Platforms, Markets and Innovation (Annabelle Gawer, ed.)
Identifies the common features of platforms in manufacturing, innovation studies, and strategy.
Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis
with Alan MacCormack and John Rusnak
Uses design structure matrices and the propagation cost metric to compare the architectures of six pairs of software codebases.