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- November 2020 (Revised March 2023)
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Zipline: The World's Largest Drone Delivery Network
By: Tarun Khanna and George Gonzalez
Zipline established the world's largest logistics network in Rwanda and Ghana by delivering medical supplies to hospitals via automated drones. The company is now looking to expand in the U.S. and partnered with Walmart to expand into home delivery. Zipline must...
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Keywords:
Drones;
Business Startups;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States;
Africa
Khanna, Tarun, and George Gonzalez. "Zipline: The World's Largest Drone Delivery Network." Harvard Business School Case 721-366, November 2020. (Revised March 2023.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
Piskorski, senior lecturer John Macomber, and research associate David Chen examines what happens when YPO launches a Networks Initiative focused on linking members through shared interests in particular...
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Julia Hanna
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Evaluating and Managing Tramp Shipping Lines Performances: A New Methodology Combining Balanced Scorecard and Network DEA
By: Ying-Chen Hsu, Cheng-Chi Chung, Hsuan-Shih Lee and H. David Sherman
The shipping industry is essential for the economic development of nations like Taiwan as a means delivering and receiving cargo. Shipping has been depressed since 2008 as a result of the financial crisis increasing pressure for the shipping lines to operate more...
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Keywords:
Network Data Envelopment Analysis;
Shipping Line;
Centralized Approach;
Cross-efficiency;
Balanced Scorecard;
Performance Evaluation
Hsu, Ying-Chen, Cheng-Chi Chung, Hsuan-Shih Lee, and H. David Sherman. "Evaluating and Managing Tramp Shipping Lines Performances: A New Methodology Combining Balanced Scorecard and Network DEA." INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research 51, no. 3 (August 2013): 130–141.
- autumn 1991
- Article
The Topic of Quality in Business School Education and Research
By: Robert S. Kaplan
- August 2007
- Module Note
Managing Networked Businesses: Platform Evolution Module
Offers an overview of conceptual content and pedagogical guidance for instructors using a six-session module, "Platform Evolution," from "Managing Networked Businesses" (MNB), a case-based MBA elective course on platform-mediated networks. The module explores the...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Networks;
Business or Company Management;
Rights;
Business Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Multi-Sided Platforms;
Market Transactions;
Innovation and Invention;
Marketing;
Competition;
Market Entry and Exit
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Managing Networked Businesses: Platform Evolution Module." Harvard Business School Module Note 808-063, August 2007.
- 18 Jul 2011
- News
A brave new networked world
- Research Summary
Research Assistant to Joshua D. Margolis, Harvard Business School, Organizational Behavior, 2006-2008
- Speaking up and being heard in organizations
- Experimental research on emotions and response to ethical feedback
- Research Summary
Current Research
Professor Chung models the effect of incentive compensation to study its impact on the sales force. Using data from a Fortune 500 company, he has developed a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus-based compensation plan and examined how various... View Details
- January 2014
- Article
Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations
By: J. Brogaard, J. Engelberg and Christopher Parsons
Using detailed publication and citation data for over 50,000 articles from 30 major economics and finance journals, we investigate whether network proximity to an editor influences research productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues...
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Keywords:
Networks;
Performance Productivity;
Education Industry;
Journalism and News Industry;
Publishing Industry
Brogaard, J., J. Engelberg, and Christopher Parsons. "Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations." Journal of Financial Economics 111, no. 1 (January 2014): 251–270.
- September 2005
- Case
IBM Network Technology (A) (Abridged)
An unconventional manager within IBM leads the creation of a business unit with multibillion-dollar potential, winning over customers and nudging the organization to make the changes needed to achieve dramatic growth. Exemplifies how organizational design and...
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Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston - Blog - Business & Environment
Teaching & Research News Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate View Details
- March 2008
- Article
Linguistic Network Configurations: Management of Innovation in Design-intensive Firms
By: Claudio Dell'Era, Alessio Marchesi and Roberto Verganti
In today's business and academic arenas, design is more and more viewed as an important strategic resource. In fact, over the last couple of years, we have seen a real explosion in business and research literature that see scholars and companies alike trying to...
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- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Virtual Networking Tips from HBS Career Coaches
you reach out, reference that this is a strange time in our business lives, ask how their company is handling things.” These questions open the doors of conversation and build the foundation of a relationship that is not simply...
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- 23 Mar 2012
- News
B-School Research Briefs
- 25 Feb 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks
- 2014
- Chapter
Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research
By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
This chapter draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical approaches and theories of...
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Jones, G., and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research." Chap. 8 in Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods, edited by Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani, 192–216. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research
Research Services Case Research & Writing Group 2ms Established in November 1999, the Case Research & Writing Group (CRG) grew out of Harvard View Details
- April 14, 2023
- Editorial
The Big Change Coming To Business School Research & Teaching
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Keywords:
Business Education
Hoffman, Andrew J. "The Big Change Coming To Business School Research & Teaching." Poets & Quants for Executives (April 14, 2023).
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Faculty & Research
Growth in New Sectors By: Ryan Raffaelli Fall 2024 | Article | MIT Sloan Management Review In more than a decade of researching innovation, I have observed how organizations respond to new opportunities, technological changes, or...
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