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  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473. In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and... View Details
Keywords: Facebook; Fake News; Mark Zuckerberg; Donald Trump; Algorithms; Social Networking; Social Networks; Partisanship; Social Media; App Development; Instagram; WhatsApp; Smartphone; Silicon Valley; Office Space; Digital Strategy; Democracy; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Controversy; Tencent; Agility; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Messaging; Monetization Strategy; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; California; Sunnyvale; Russia
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  • 17 Nov 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

data network, the easier it is for workers to lean on superiors and rely on them to make decisions. It's also easier for executives to micromanage and keep all the decisions in the corporate office. Trust is also a key factor in determining whether decisions are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

investment committee's agenda, Project Paris. Project Paris, a very different type of real estate transaction, is a hybrid mezzanine investment in the acquisition of a residential real estate services firm headquartered in France. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing

By: Kristina McElheran
Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Power and Influence; Adaptation; Cooperation
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

candidate for the Inner City 100, each company nominee must employ ten or more employees at year end; be private with at least a five-year operating history; and have at least $1 million in sales. It also must be headquartered in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

country-level factors that limit firms' use of selective disclosure by intensifying scrutiny on them and by diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

the size and role of corporate headquarters in the company he had reshaped as a "premium conglomerate." During his tenure, Andersen had divided what had previously been operated as almost a single entity into separate lines of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

quickly to execute the strategy. The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products and services. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

multiple official languages, at least one of which is strong or weak FTR. Painstakingly going through and coding each company according to the dominant language in its headquarters city, they were able to show CSR scores differed by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

Japanese managers in foreign locations engaged in nemawashi and ringi by intensive telephone contact and frequent exchanges of visits between headquarters in Japan and the overseas units. View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also suggest that chains that do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

Pretium who previously worked as a research analyst at HBS. “Astoundingly, five of the six most valuable public companies in the world in 2020 were tech companies headquartered in San Francisco or Seattle. In response, local policy... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

Chuang, CEO of Aquent, an employment services company headquartered in Boston. In roughly half of the new initiatives Aquent has invested in over the last few years, Chuang estimates, "we have gotten too excited about a new product... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

equivalent arrival and service rates, total service capacity can be increased. Who Should Select New Employees in Geographically Dispersed Organizations: Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

Abstract—U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the United States. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

purview of headquarters. Headquarters has given them full responsibility for performance with little direct oversight, and allowed them to develop a more objective view of the enterprise and its strategies. This enables them to entertain... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

global accelerator in which judges across international regions are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe.” Case Studies and Materials Rolex SA Doug J. Chung “Rolex SA was one of the most successful... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

firm to trade with any given country increased by more than 60 percent if the neighborhood surrounding headquarters had a high percentage of immigrants from that country. What's more, "the same effects happen with boards," Cohen says. "If... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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