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- August 2023
- Teaching Note
Newlab: Scaling an Innovation Engine
By: Tarun Khanna and Felicia Belostecinic
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-364. View Details
- December 2009 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Sony and the JK Wedding Dance
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Executives at Sony Music Entertainment faced a dilemma: a user-generated video featuring controversial artist Chris Brown's music was netting millions of views per week on YouTube. Sony held the copyright to the song, and was entitled to issue a takedown notice to the... View Details
Keywords: Music Entertainment; Copyright; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet; Music Industry
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Sony and the JK Wedding Dance." Harvard Business School Case 510-064, December 2009. (Revised December 2012.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- April 2018
- Supplement
$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg! (B)
By: David B. Yoffie and Aakash Mehta
This case provides a brief update on Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. View Details
Yoffie, David B., and Aakash Mehta. "$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg! (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-513, April 2018.
- 2012
- Article
The Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances
By: Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen and Pavel Zhelyazkov
This paper unpacks two underspecified facets of collaboration: cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have... View Details
Gulati, Ranjay, Franz Wohlgezogen, and Pavel Zhelyazkov. "The Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances." Academy of Management Annals 6 (2012): 531–583.
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
Stewart isn't afraid to make some noise when it's called for. When Facebook was preparing to go public in 2012, Stewart helped create a campaign that highlighted the lack of women on the social networking giant's board. Part of that... View Details
- Career Coach
Carole Carlson
Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including strategy development,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
- April 6, 2023
- Article
A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint
By: Scott Duke Kominers and 1337 Skulls Sers
In an NFT project, the mint—the process by which tokens are initially allocated—largely determines who your community is and how they and the broader market view the project going forward. In this piece, we review a new minting strategy recently introduced by 1337... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Mechanism Design; Sales Management; Sales Model; Crypto Economy; Non-fungible Tokens; Networks; Product Launch; Auctions; Market Design
Kominers, Scott Duke, and 1337 Skulls Sers. "A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint." a16zcrypto.com (April 6, 2023).
- May 2012
- Article
Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game
By: Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer
In variants of the Electronic Mail Game (Rubinstein, 1989) where two or more players communicate via multiple channels, the multiple channels can facilitate collective action via redundancy, the sending of the same message along multiple paths or else repeatedly along... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Mail Game; Stag Hunt; Coordination; Signaling; Networks; Behavior; Communication; Trust; Game Theory
Coles, Peter A., and Ran Shorrer. "Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game." B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 12, no. 1 (May 2012).
- 1998
- Chapter
Virtual Teams: Using Communications Technology to Manage Geographically Dispersed Development Groups
By: Dorothy A. Leonard, P. A. Brands, Amy Edmondson and Justine Fenwick
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Communication Technology; Information Technology; Networks; Management; Technology Industry
Leonard, Dorothy A., P. A. Brands, Amy Edmondson, and Justine Fenwick. "Virtual Teams: Using Communications Technology to Manage Geographically Dispersed Development Groups." In Sense and Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era, edited by Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, 285–98. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
Ed Gozonsky (MBA '54), right, spoke to Associate Professor Andrew McAfee and students after attending a class as part of Fellowship Day. HBS changed my life. The education I got here made all the difference,” retired CEO of Alleghany Corporation John Burns (MBA ’55)... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
"Navigating Success in Volatile Times" will be the theme of this year's HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) conference. The fourth annual event, to be held October 5–7 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, will provide insights into the strategies and tools... View Details
- March 2001 (Revised March 2021)
- Teaching Note
Heidi Roizen (TN)
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Linda-Eling Lee
Teaching Note for (9-800-228). View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 7 Aug 2008
- Conference Presentation
Networking, planning, and the effect of political institutions on new venture survival
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
- 2011
- Chapter
Collaborative Implementation: 'What If,' Asked George?
By: Leslie Perlow
Perlow, Leslie. "Collaborative Implementation: 'What If,' Asked George?" In Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research. Vol. 27, edited by Arne Carlsen and Jane E. Dutton. Advances in Organization Studies. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2011.
- 15 Oct 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Goldman Sachs’ $500 Million Bet on Small Businesses
- 2021
- Working Paper
Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in the United States
By: Ines Black, Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
This article analyzes the phenomenon of firm-driven labor market search—or outbound recruiting—where recruiters are increasingly “hunting for talent” rather than passively relying on workers to search for and apply to job vacancies. Our research methodology leverages... View Details
Keywords: Hiring; Referrals; Outbound Recruiting; Labor Markets; Selection and Staffing; Networks; Recruitment; Strategy; United States
Black, Ines, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning. "Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in the United States." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3576498, September 2021.
- October 2015
- Article
Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
By: William R. Kerr and Scott Duke Kominers
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions... View Details
Keywords: Agglomeration; Clusters; Industrial Organization; Silicon Valley; Technology Flows; Patents; Networks; Information Technology; Industry Clusters; Entrepreneurship; California
Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes." Review of Economics and Statistics 97, no. 4 (October 2015): 877–899.
- 1984
- Other Unpublished Work
Informal Networks: Keys to Successful Management - HBS Discussion Paper
By: J. Ronald Fox and Paul Edwin Morrison
- Career Coach
Jan Pianca
Jan (MSc, International Management, Bocconi University) is the Educational Programs Assistant Director Europe at the HBS Europe Research Center in Paris. He focuses on European employer outreach to develop and manage the School’s relationships with European companies.... View Details
Keywords: Auto/Transportation/Logistics; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Energy; Clean Technology; Energy; Oil & Gas; Energy; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Fintech; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Real Estate; Technology