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Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

When American companies shift pieces of their operations overseas, they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, and new growth opportunities just out of their reach as well, explains HBS Professor Willy Shih, who served as president of Eastman Kodak's digital imaging business for several years.

Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation

Karim R. Lakhani and Michael L. Tushman use in-depth examples to argue that in contexts of increasing modularity and decreased communication costs, open innovation will at least complement, if not increasingly substitute for, more traditional innovation modes.

Featured Cases

Ockham Technologies (A): Building the Team

by Noam Wasserman

The case describes the issues faced by a founder-CEO of a start-up company as he transitions from his former role as a consultant -- building a board, assembling an executive team, outsourcing development work and managing tension between himself and his co-founder.

Vehbi Koc and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group

by Asli M. Colpan, Geoffrey Jones

The case describes the creation of Turkey's largest business group, analyzing its subsequent diversification into many industries. The case explains the importance of diversified business groups in emerging markets, exploring the role of market imperfections, government policies and entrepreneurial ambition in their creation.