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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address market should discourage subdividing IP address blocks more than necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
professor at HBS) and Assistant Professor Feng Zhu, analyzed several thousand articles on the king of crowdsourced knowledge, Wikipedia, searching for phrases that would indicate political bias. What they found is that many articles... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper offers a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a social safety View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
economy to a support economy. The second of the "three forces" is represented by the new digital medium whose networked intelligence, flexibility, ubiquity, and complexity make it ideally suited to meeting the demands of the new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
along the edge of the screen, scanning for a byline. He quickly spotted one: Veronica Perez. "Ms. Perez," said Barton to himself, "Who are you?" Swirling and tapping thumb and forefinger across the tablet's display, he generated a list, refining his View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
programs, your satisfaction with existing networks is not so low that you are crying for a revolution. The same is true of advertising: of course, we would prefer not to be bombarded by irrelevant messages, but on the other hand we have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
bringing them to market. Though this article presents the three diagnostics linearly, they are rarely conducted in a linear fashion. Teams or individuals searching for disruptive opportunities can start with any of them. The results of... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
cross-group network effects are neither necessary nor sufficient for an organization to be a MSP. Second, our definition emphasizes the difference between MSPs and alternative forms of intermediation such as "re-sellers," which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
applicable laws, search for innovation opportunities created by regulation and deregulation, and proactively anticipate future regulation. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
including emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil. This list will continue to grow. A by-product of the intertwining of globalization and technology enabled networks is that events are no longer isolated, the impact of which was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
markets faster through the existing distribution network of the acquirer, or through the ability to invest quickly in significantly expanded facilities. Compared to an IPO, it allows the careful delineation of accountability and... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
of the "long tail" principle argue that lower transaction and search costs will lead to a shift away from hit content and cause more fragmentation in consumers' choices. This perspective is in sharp contrast with the more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
the crisis. It also places the story in the context of Padraig's life journey and search for multi-dimensional success. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811072-PDF-ENG Padraig O'Ceidigh and Aer Arann: Building a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
safety testing by third-party labs in the US in 2015 was about $1.5 billion, compared to the estimated $8.5 billion value of food safety tests conducted by companies in-house. Mérieux NutriSciences is one of the largest providers of food safety testing for food... View Details
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
group were women who were just about to step off [the career track] or who were at home with young children thinking, "I am going to come back but not for three years, so I want a strategy to bridge the gap, keep my skills current, and keep my View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
scientists are much less likely to advise for-profit biotechnology companies. We also identify factors that contour this gender difference, including scientists' co-authorship network structure and the level of support for commercial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman