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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Filesharing Networks

By: Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers) who share files and download from each other and f peers (freeriders) who download from sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Resource Allocation
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Introducing the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator at Harvard Business School

  • Program

Advanced Management Program

to a global group of peers and build your network. Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory

By: Christopher Marquis and Andras Tilcsik
The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual. This... View Details
Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure
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    Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory

    The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual.... View Details

    • February 2024
    • Article

    Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials

    By: Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein and Heidi L. Williams
    This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that evidence is more relevant for decision-making by physicians and patients when it... View Details
    Keywords: Representation; Racial Disparity; Health Testing and Trials; Race; Equality and Inequality; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 2013
    • Teaching Note

    Ningbo FOTILE Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd. (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Yuren Fang and Hong Zhang
    Since 2008, FOTILE has actively introduced philosophies of the traditional Chinese culture—such as benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and faith—into its management, which it believes to compensate for deficiencies in Western management concepts and creates a new... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Strategy; China
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    • Research Summary

    Bargaining with Imperfect Enforcement

    Joint work with Mark Williams, formerly of Exeter College, Oxford.

    The game-theoretic bargaining literature insists on non-cooperative bargaining procedure but allows cooperative implementation of agreements. The effect of this is to allow free-reign of bargaining... View Details

    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics

    By: Alexandre Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li, Martin Ramé and Kai Wang
    Contagion models are ubiquitous in epidemiology, social sciences, engineering, and management. This paper formulates a prescriptive contagion analytics model where a decision maker allocates shared resources across multiple segments of a population, each governed by... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2013
    • Case

    Ningbo FOTILE Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd.

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Yuren Fang and Hong Zhang
    Since 2008, FOTILE has actively introduced philosophies of the traditional Chinese culture—such as benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and faith—into its management, which it believes to compensate for deficiencies in Western management concepts and creates a new... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Strategy; China
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    • 19 Nov 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Christian Terwiesch, Wharton

    • 20 Jul 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

    Thanks to technology and instant global communication, it has never been easier for companies to seek solutions to problems or find new ideas from sources outside their own corporate walls. But the art of managing these external innovation View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • June 2024
    • Case

    Growing Foodology into Latin America's Largest Platform for Virtual Restaurants

    By: Jorge Tamayo, Rembrand Koning and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
    This case delves into the expansion strategy of Foodology, a cloud kitchen startup based in Bogotá that operated across four Latin American countries (Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru). Co-founders Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero (both HBS, 2019) grappled... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Food; Digital Platforms; Product Launch; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Business Model; Business Startups; Profit; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Diversification; Food and Beverage Industry; Latin America; South America; Colombia; Brazil; Mexico; Peru
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory

    By: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino
    This working paper examines the historical origins, evolutionary paths, and long-term resilience of diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of... View Details
    Keywords: History; Diversification; Business Divisions; Theory; Oceania; North America; Europe
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    • 01 Dec 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

    A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as a successful retailer; in... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

      Malcolm S. Salter

      Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

      In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
      • 30 Mar 2023
      • Blog Post

      Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

      personally. Our mission is to connect, empower, and celebrate the next generation of women leaders. We feel it's our responsibility to ensure the women in our campus community have the resources and allies they need to thrive, both as HBS... View Details
      • Article

      The Price of Anarchy of Self-Selection in Tullock Contests

      By: Hau Chan, David C. Parkes and Karim R. Lakhani
      Crowdsourcing platforms operate by offering their clients the ability to obtain cost-effective solutions for their problems through contests. The top contestants with the best solutions are rewarded, and the submitted solutions are provided to the clients. Within the... View Details
      Keywords: Crowdsourcing Contests; Game Theory
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      • Article

      Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory

      By: Christopher Marquis and Andras Tilcsik
      The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual. This... View Details
      Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Research; Organizations; Power and Influence
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      • 2020
      • Book

      Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

      By: Stefan Thomke
      Don’t fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition,... View Details
      Keywords: Experimentation; Experiments; Market Research; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Customers; Research
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