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HBS Working Knowledge

by Marco Iansiti
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, March 22, 2010
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Microsoft Exec Writes ‘One Strategy’ For Your Success

by Steven Sinofsky and Marco Iansiti
CNBC Guest Blog, March 19, 2010
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The Evolution of Science-Based Business:
Innovating How We Innovate

By Gary P. Pisano
Harvard Business School Working Papers, February 19, 2010
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The Determinants of Individual Performance and
Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation

by Ned Gulley and Karim Lakhani
Harvard Business School Working Papers, February 2010
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Experience, Team Familiarity, and Learning:
The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety

By Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino, and Gary P. Pisano
Harvard Business School Working Papers, September 16, 2009
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How to Manage Outside Innovation

by Karim Lakhani
MIT Sloan Management Review 50, no. 4, Summer 2009

Restoring American Competitiveness

By Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
Harvard Business Review, July-August 2009
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Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You? The New Leaders in Innovation will be those who figure out the best way to leverage a network of outsiders

by Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti
Harvard Business Review, December 2008

Intellectual Property, Architecture, and the Management of Technological Transitions: Evidence from Microsoft Corporation

by Alan MacCormack, John Alan David and Marco Iansiti
Journal of Product Innovation Management

Getting Clear About Communities in Open Innovation

By Joel West and Karim Lakhani
Industry & Innovation 15, no. 2, April 2008

How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture

by Gary P. Pisano, Teece, David J.
California Management Review, Fall 2007

Market Definition and Concentration:
One Size Doesn't Fit All

by Mark Glick
Antitrust Bulletin, Summer 2007

The Principles of Distributed Innovation

by Karim Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2, no. 3,
Summer 2007

Getting Unusual Suspects to Solve R&D Puzzles

by Karim Lakhani and Lars Bo Jeppesen
Harvard Business Review 85, no.5, May 2007

Innovating Through Design

by Roberto Verganti
Harvard Business Review December, 2006

Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle

by Westerman, George, F. Warren McFarlan, and Marco Iansiti
Organization Science, March-April 2006

Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code

by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y Baldwin
Management Science, October 2005
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Strategy As Ecology

by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien
Harvard Business Review, March 1, 2004

The Incumbent's Advantage

by Marco Iansiti, F. Warren. McFarlan and George Westerman
Sloan Management Review, 2003

Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in Software Development

by Alan MacCormack, and Roberto Verganti
Journal of Product Innovation Management, May 2003