MIT Sloan School
Technology
Strategy 15.912 -- Fall 2000 |
This course provides a strategy framework -- drawing upon the economics of technical change -- for
high-technology businesses. The emphasis throughout is on the development and application of
conceptual models which clarify the interactions between competition, patterns of technological and
market change, and the structure and development of internal firm capabilities.
For more information, download the detailed syllabus.
These are the slides that I prepared for the "two day" version of 912. They are a reasonable summary of "course highlights."
Click on the section you require to download them.
Class 1 | What is Technology Strategy? |
Class 2 |
Dominant Designs |
Class 3 | Electric Vehicles
There are no slides for class 3 - the slides that I used in class were all from class 1 and class 2 |
Class 4 | The Evolution of Markets |
Class 5 | Diffusion: EMI and the CAT Scanner (1) |
Class 6 | EMI and the CAT Scanner (2) |
Class 7 | Appropriability: Profiting from Technological Innovation |
Class 8 | Exploring the Dynamics of Investment |
Class 9 | The Economics of Standard Driven Markets |
Class 10 | Entrepreneurship in Standard-Setting Markets: Nintendo |
Class 11 | Entrepreneurship in Standard-Setting Markets: Sega |
Class 12 | Organizing for Research Productivity: Team New Zealand |
Class 13 | Absorptive Capacity |
Class 14 | Authority Responsibility and Reward: |
Class 15 | Xerox Technology Ventures |
Class 16 | Understanding Organizational Failure |
Class 17 | Organizational Failure in Practice (1): USX |
Class 18 | Organizational Failure in Practice (2):
R.R. Donnelley & Sons: The Digital Division |
Class 19 | Options and Scenarios |
Class 20 | Development Strategy: Tools and Frameworks:
Medronic |
Class 21 | Development Strategy: Tools and Frameworks in practice:
Kirkham Instruments |
Class 22 | Alza/Ciba (1): Structuring a Deal? |
Class 23 | Alza/Ciba (2): Managing the Relationship, 1977-1979 |
Class 24 | Alza/Ciba (3): Managing the Relationship, 1979-1981 |
Class 25 | Wrap-Up |
Contact Information | Prof. Rebecca Henderson
E52-543; 617-253-6618 Email: Rhenders@mit.edu Office Hrs: By appt - please send me e-mail! |
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