The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and the Value of Knowledge
Topics: Operations Social Value Chain
The Strategy and Management group, in partnership with the CDS, welcomed Carliss Y. Baldwin as part of the Technology, Innovation and Learning Seminar Series.
Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact on firm strategy and the structure of business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity, the first of a projected two volumes. Volume 2, in progress, will focus on Architecture and Strategy.
Baldwin received a bachelor’s degree in economics from MIT in 1972, and MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard Business School. She developed and taught Mergers & Acquisitions, a second-year MBA course.
She has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards. Within Harvard University, she was a member of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and serves on the policy and admissions committee of the joint Ph.D program in Information Technology and Management. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband, Randolph Hawthorne.
