Filter Results:
(209)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(576)
- News (241)
- Research (209)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (13)
- Faculty Publications (85)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(576)
- News (241)
- Research (209)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (13)
- Faculty Publications (85)
Sort by
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
loans, which only apply to businesses in states that have declared emergency status, some state governments are offering aid packages. Explore private sector programs and fintech products. Facebook said it would offer $100 million in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
recipients are not highly paid (regardless of talent), saying that “green card data show the following percentages of foreign workers at Levels I or II making below-median wages (for a given region): Amazon 91%; Facebook 91%; and Google... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
succeeded. BandPage, which began as a Facebook app to help musicians build professional-looking pages and convert fan "likes" into revenue, has become a major hub in the online music network. BandPage has deals with upstream and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
2016 announcement ramified differently. Days later, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump referenced the relocation in a Facebook post. Soon, Carrier’s plan became a touchtone to Trump’s anti-globalization and anti-free trade campaign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
AOL’s chat rooms and SixDegrees, a social networking site that peaked at 3.5 million members before failing in 2001. Despite these developments, I didn’t foresee the rapid rise of Friendster (founded in 2002), MySpace (2003), and Facebook... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
media usage had declined among Americans less than 35 years old, and the only age group using Facebook more were people 55 or older, according to Edison Research.) As a marketing medium, online channels were cluttered and increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
role in that process. “The way entrepreneurs create jobs is not by staying small forever and creating a gazillion firms,” says Kerr. “It’s a small firm that grows to a Facebook or a chemical plant with 800 employees.” Part of the reason... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
hit-driven business,” says McDonald. VC firms spread their wealth around to dozens of startups, hoping to hit that one jackpot that might be the next Facebook or Google. The problem comes when they have to choose between supporting one... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
literature on inter-firm relations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-126.pdf Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network? Authors:Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta Abstract Social networks, such as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
limited. Friendster, the first website to resemble the social media outlets we have today, was still two years away from release in 2000. In contrast, Facebook currently has over 2 billion monthly users, more than a quarter of the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
focus on digital innovations but kept it organizationally separate from the paper. One of the lab's most famous creations was its Social Reader, a product designed for Facebook and the first by any major paper to experiment with directly... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
If they try to lock it down, it will actually hurt them and keep their own efforts away from the mainstream on where research on machine learning is going. They get the benefit of other people using it and improving it. Facebook and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
In spite of the cultural and social revolution in the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace (and, in South Korea, Cyworld), the business viability of these sites remains in question. While many sites are attempting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
executive officer, on a visit to Pola's head office in Tokyo, heard news of critical comments about the company and animal testing in a Facebook post from a group in South Australia where the brand had been founded as a small biodynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
popular social network services such as Facebook and MySpace, LinkedIn had to decide whether to incorporate social networking into its value proposition. Third, in an increasingly global business environment, it had to weigh the option of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
social class was negatively related to percentage of friends on Facebook that are outside the United States. In Study 2, we extended these findings to the global level by analyzing country-level data on View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
costs-and therefore also the risk-of the album, which had been one-and-a-half years in development and was a particularly expensive proposition because of the many videos. How would fans and music industry insiders react to the daring launch, unveiled via Beyoncé's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 811-055 In October 2010, Triangulate's founder/CEO must determine what product features to develop and what marketing programs to pursue in order to boost the odds of successfully raising another venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
let people pay their bills online, and airline apps let them check in and monitor the status of their flights. (2) Offer unique value. In South Korea, commuters can use an app to order groceries while waiting for their trains. (3) Provide social value. Apps on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne