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- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
information that’s available on the online review platforms and information that’s obtained through government regulation to gather more informative signals of restaurant hygiene. I’m also working on other research estimating network... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
communicate with them in a dynamic, two-way fashion. Fifth, there is technological change. As digital networks make instant connectivity the norm of business life, and as social media platforms grow more powerful and more ubiquitous, a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
network of client employees and an equally vast internal network of the firm's employees. The GEP needs to have a deep understanding of the client and its industry in order to identify opportunities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
together that would be like a network that would come together in a larger sense. You could handle some of the face-to-face dynamics and get the benefits of some of that but also some of the benefits of the technology. Not sequentially,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
experience, which makes them more productive. Say they join your company at age 24 or 25 and then after four or five years, they decide to start a family. They’ve got five years of work experience; they have a network inside the company;... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
systems that combine hardware, sensors, data storage, microprocessors, software, and connectivity in myriad ways. These "smart, connected products"-made possible by vast improvements in processing power and device miniaturization and by the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
including internal and external crowdsourcing contests. Emphasis is placed on exploring actual open innovation initiatives within Siemens and their outcomes. These include creating internal social- and knowledge-sharing networks and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
in local markets, to increase bargaining power, capturing patients, restricting choices and services, and when all else fails, taking legal action. This type of competition has resulted in large, undifferentiated health plans and provider View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
network (government?) will need to be developed alongside of capitalism for those who do not survive the massive consolidation." What will capitalism require of us in the future? What do you think? [summing up] Is There Really a... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
people like network giant Ted Turner and Bruce Willis in his film roles. Executives were now portrayed as similar warrior-athletes who ventured into out-of-bounds challenges like technical rock climbing. These were the masculine ideals... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 412-004 It was June 2011 and Alexander Saint-Amand, president and CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, the largest expert network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
new offering that would "change the way people experience TV." The new service would allow consumers to bypass traditional cable and satellite delivery and use the Internet to access live streams of more than 40 popular broadcast and cable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
of the basic tenets of the approach we've used to teach entrepreneurship? Howard Stevenson: First, entrepreneurship has been taught as a process, not as a person. There has been a tremendous emphasis on the nature of the network that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
two-sided proprietary (closed) platforms connecting consumers and producers. Proprietary platforms create two-sided deadweight losses through monopoly pricing but at the same time, precisely because they set prices in order to maximize profits, they partially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/AmbigMainTextFinal_8a88b410-0618-40ea-969a-c29f3e509d9d.pdf May 2015 Journal of Information Technology Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization By: Zuboff, Shoshana Abstract—This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
create significant value and have modest operating costs, and network effects protect their position once established-users rarely leave a vibrant platform. But these businesses also raise significant start-up challenges. Every platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
licensing offer from Netflix for their most ambitious project to date, a new television series called House of Cards. MRC executives had begun to pitch the series to the major premium cable networks in the U.S., including AMC, FX, HBO,... 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