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5 Sep 2014 - 6 Sep 2014
Conference Presentation

Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity

10 Aug 2013 - 13 Aug 2013
Conference Presentation

Stock Market Prediction via Social Media: The Importance of Competitors

2013
Chapter

Privacy Breach Analysis in Social Networks

Over the past 5–10 years, online social networks have rapidly expanded, and as of March 2012 the largest online social network, Facebook, had over 901 million active members. The wealth of information users post in their social network profiles, as well as the... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media; Cybersecurity; Analytics and Data Science

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Feb 2011
Conference Presentation

Loose Lips Sink Networks --Is Social Networking Making Your Network Insecure?

August 2018
Teaching Note

Magpie: Developing and Using Buyer Personas

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-013. Magpie is a startup with a platform that allows publishers to natively tag the products discussed in their content and thus allows consumers to purchase those products without needing to leave that publisher’s web page. A key aspect... View Details

Keywords: Buying Process; Marketing; Sales; Distribution Channels; Segmentation; Entrepreneurship; Social Media; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; United States

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Comparative Costs of Advanced Proton and Photon Radiation Therapies: Lessons from Time-driven Activity-based Costing in Head and Neck Cancer

By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Steven J. Frank and Thomas W. Feeley

Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) is an innovative costing tool in healthcare that can be used to directly compare the true cost of competing technologies over the full care cycle. Rather than only comparing therapeutic effectiveness over a limited number of... View Details

Keywords: Head And Neck Cancer; IMRT; Proton Therapy; Time-Driven ABC; Information Technology; Activity Based Costing and Management; Medical Specialties

Nov 2014
Conference Presentation

Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity

Apr 2014
Conference Presentation

Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity

9 May 2013 - 11 May 2013
Conference Presentation

Stock Market Prediction via Social Media: The Importance of Competitors

16 Nov 2006
Conference Presentation

Utilizing Security Intelligence to Tackle Organized CyberCrime

2007
Conference Presentation

Current Trends in Brand Preservation and Intellectual Property

Fall 2021
Article

The Problem of Social Benefit

Economists have obsessed over the question of negative externalities, but market arrangements can also generate positive externalities. We should consider how to harness them for public good. View Details

Keywords: Externalities; Public Good; Economics; Social Issues

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Why Congress Should Invest in Open-Source Software

2019
Working Paper

The Impact of Technology Procurement Regulations on Social Value and National Competitiveness

Article

Capturing Value from Free Digital Goods

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2018
Working Paper

The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons

On the 50th anniversary of Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons,” this article considers the benefits and potential downsides of the digital commons, which emerged well after Hardin wrote his seminal article. Unlike the physical world Hardin wrote about, the... View Details

Keywords: Digital Commons; Economics; Society; Transformation; Opportunities

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2015
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Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software

As firms increasingly rely on crowdsourced digital goods, understanding their impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of one such good, non-pecuniary (free) open source software (OSS). The results show a... View Details

Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Performance Productivity; Software

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