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Educators

October 2, 2012
Article

Fund Managers Eager to Use Social Media are Held Back by Industry Regulations

By: Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher

April 2020
Article

Digital Emotion Contagion

By: Amit Goldenberg and James J. Gross

People spend considerable time on digital media, and during this time they are often exposed to others’ emotion expressions. This exposure can lead their own emotion expressions to become more like others’ emotion expressions, a process we refer to as digital emotion... View Details

Keywords: Emotion; Emotion Contagion; Digital Media; Emotions; Media; Internet and the Web; Measurement and Metrics; Social Media

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Article

Dynamic Multi-Relational Chinese Restaurant Process for Analyzing Influences on Users in Social Media

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Indrajit Bhattacharya and Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

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2015
Working Paper

Social Is the New Financial: How Startups' Social Media Activities Influence Funding Outcomes

By: Andy Wu, Fujie Jin and Lorin Hitt

2018
Working Paper

Us and Them: Predicting Firm Stock Performance via Social Media Sentiment about Competitors

By: Frank Nagle

06 Jul 2020
News

Will the Facebook advertising boycott force the social media giant to change? Not likely

January 23, 2023
Article

Digital Public Health Interventions at Scale: The Impact of Social Media Advertising on Beliefs and Outcomes Related to COVID Vaccines

By: Susan Athey, Kristen Grabarz, Michael Luca and Nils Wernerfelt

Public health organizations increasingly use social media advertising campaigns in pursuit of public health goals. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of about $40 million of social media advertisements that were run and experimentally tested on Facebook and... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Public Health; Vaccines; Social Media; Advertising; Power and Influence; Health Care and Treatment

2021
Working Paper

Does Social Media Cause Polarization? Evidence from Access to Twitter Echo Chambers during the 2019 Argentine Presidential Debate

By: Rafael Di Tella, Ramiro H. Gálvez and Ernesto Schargrodsky

We study how two groups, those inside vs. those outside echo chambers, react to a political event when we vary social media status (Twitter). Our treatments mimic two strategies often suggested as a way to limit polarization on social media: they expose people to... View Details

Keywords: Political Polarization; Political Elections; Internet and the Web; Attitudes; Social Media; Argentina

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2018
Speaking truth: Mobilizing Change Through Artistic Expression

"Black Can Be Me": Voicing the Musical Blackness through Song, Scholarship, and Social Media

30 Mar 2023
News

A Social Media Fueled Bank Crisis, Perpetual Pessimism in Finance, & Tech's Layoff Cleanse

18 Mar 2013
News

Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview

Keywords: social media; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Nov 2009
News

Can Europe Rescue Media Biz, And If So, Can the U.S. Do It, Too?

11 Apr 2023
News

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

April 2012 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Mekanism: Engineering Viral Marketing

By: Thales S. Teixeira and Alison Caverly

Mekanism introduces students to a digital media production company specializing in creating viral marketing campaigns for advertising agencies and clients (e.g., Microsoft, AXE, eBay, Toyota, etc.) Mekanism has grown tremendously from 2007 to 2010 in part due to the... View Details

Keywords: Viral Marketing; Viral Advertising; Core Competencies; Growth Strategy; Online Media; Videos; Advertising Media; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Media; Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Industry; North and Central America

Educators

June 2018
Supplement

Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (B)

By: Tatiana Sandino and Olivia Hull

Supplement to HBS No. 118-007, "Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (A)." Chief Human Resources Officer Tore Høylie was proud of REMA 1000 (REMA)’s strong employee engagement with Workplace, Facebook’s corporate social media platform; however, some users complained that the... View Details

Keywords: Social Network; Enterprise Social Media; Facebook; Workplace; Social and Collaborative Networks; Communication Technology; Problems and Challenges; Social Media; Retail Industry; Norway

February 2014 (Revised June 2015)
Case

Fei Cheng Wu Rao (If You Are the One): The Media as a Reflection of Society

By: Christopher Marquis, Zoe Yang and Juelin Yin

As Fei Cheng Wu Rao, China's most popular entertainment program, enters its fourth year, company leaders grapple with questions of how to keep the show fresh and reach new markets. In particular, the show is poised to expand to Africa, yet there are significant... View Details

Keywords: China; Globalization; Entertainment; TV; Media; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; China

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