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- December 2014
- Case
Groupon: A New CEO Takes Charge
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Arnold B. Peinado
On August 7, 2013, Eric Lefkofsky, the chairman and largest shareholder of Groupon was named CEO, replacing founder Andrew Mason, who had run the company since its inception in 2009. When Groupon had its initial public offering (IPO) in November 2011, the company's...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Quantifying the Value of Iterative Experimentation
By: Iavor I Bojinov and Jialiang Mao
Over the past decade, most technology companies and a growing number of conventional firms have adopted online experimentation (or A/B testing) into their product development process. Initially, A/B testing was deployed as a static procedure in which an experiment was...
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Bojinov, Iavor I., and Jialiang Mao. "Quantifying the Value of Iterative Experimentation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-059, March 2024.
- December 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Fishbowl: Scaling Up
By: Leslie K. John
Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and across industry. Unlike many other social media apps, on which users typically present idealized portraits of themselves, on Fishbowl,...
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Keywords:
Communication Technologies;
Customer Value;
Value Chain;
Interpersonal Communication;
Talent and Talent Management;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Advertising;
Product Marketing;
Digital Platforms;
Consumer Behavior;
Network Effects;
Emotions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Trust;
Applications and Software;
Technology Adoption;
Social Media;
Communications Industry;
Employment Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
John, Leslie K. "Fishbowl: Scaling Up." Harvard Business School Case 919-013, December 2018. (Revised February 2020.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- December 2012
- Article
The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line
By: Francesca Gino and Bradely R. Staats
What's the best way to lift people out of poverty? The social entrepreneurs in the new "impact sourcing" industry believe the answer is providing work, not aid. Their organizations hire people at the bottom of the pyramid to perform digital tasks such as transcribing...
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Keywords:
Outsourcing;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Partners and Partnerships;
Development Economics;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Welfare;
Cooperation;
San Francisco
Gino, Francesca, and Bradely R. Staats. "The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012): 92–96.
- 16 Jun 2021
- Interview
Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and...
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"Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations." No. 51. Scaling Culture (podcast), June 16, 2021.
- September 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Teaching Note
Fishbowl: Scaling Up
By: Leslie K. John
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
Teaching Note for HBS No. 919-013. Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and... View Details
Teaching Note for HBS No. 919-013. Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and... View Details
Keywords:
Communication Technologies;
Customer Value;
Value Chain;
Interpersonal Communication;
Talent and Talent Management;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Advertising;
Product Marketing;
Digital Platforms;
Consumer Behavior;
Network Effects;
Emotions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Trust;
Applications and Software;
Technology Adoption;
Digital Platforms;
Communications Industry;
Employment Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
John, Leslie K. "Fishbowl: Scaling Up." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 920-022, September 2019. (Revised February 2020.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- September 16, 2022
- Article
A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties
By: Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral
The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members, to test the extent to which weak ties increased job mobility in the world’s largest...
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Rajkumar, Karthik, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Sinan Aral. "A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties." Science 377, no. 6612 (September 16, 2022).
- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
There it is, gleaming at the top of your LinkedIn feed: your dream job, a high-level, well-paying position in your field. Are you qualified enough? Should you apply? New research shows that women might be less likely to take that chance...
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by Kara Baskin
- 25 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business
researchers chose to concentrate on the eight Ivy League schools for their initial research, following the career trajectories of 401,785 graduates from 1970 to 2021. They combined that data with career information, such as LinkedIn...
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by Rachel Layne
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Value of Professional Ties in B2B Markets
By: Navid Mojir and Sriya Anbil
We study how a particular form of social ties (i.e., professional ties proxied by past employment) affects price and profitability in business-to-business (B2B) markets. While most of the work on social ties focuses on information diffusion in business-to-consumer...
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Keywords:
Professional Ties;
Social Ties;
Business-to-business Marketing;
B2B Marketing;
Repo;
Individual Connections;
B2B Pricing;
Pricing;
Decision-making In Financial Markets;
Marketing;
Relationships;
Price;
Financial Markets;
Decision Making
Mojir, Navid, and Sriya Anbil. "The Value of Professional Ties in B2B Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-037, November 2021. (Revised September 2023.)
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?
CVP, and in what direction. Using CVP in the business world Importantly, the authors tested whether the model applied to two key contexts: media and entertainment, and business. They used profile images crawled from LinkedIn to compare...
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by Kara Baskin
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
iterations of the paper are in the works that use some 150 million resumes from LinkedIn to broaden the study. “Our paper clearly shows that taking risks by starting a new company pays off in the long run even if the startup itself is not...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
Like: The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have Feedback or ideas to...
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- 27 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership
conquests that matter. This article originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Francesca Gino on LinkedIn to read more of her posts. About the Author Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard...
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by Francesca Gino
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
we had no real idea what would prevail. So, this is where the scientific mystery lies,” he says. Applying dating algorithms to other industries, cautiously Platonic platforms could follow similar, industry-appropriate revelation models. For instance, View Details
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by Kara Baskin
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
ethics, and workforce implications. How LinkedIn Parses Talent, Skills, and Diversity Professional work has hit multiple inflection points—from generative AI to remote work and shifting skills requirements. There are few better vantage...
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by Danielle Kost
- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
This article originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Francesca Gino on LinkedIn to read more of her posts. You Might Also Like: When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback Can...
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by Francesca Gino
- 14 Jun 2021
- Op-Ed
When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative
channel our energy productively in the face of a challenge. We can use our anxiety for good—allowing it to empower us rather than undo us. All it takes is a change in our narrative. This article originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Francesca Gino on View Details
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by Francesca Gino
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
LinkedIn. Follow Francesca Gino on LinkedIn to read more of her posts. About the Author Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She's the author of Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to...
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by Francesca Gino
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
through algorithms. Algorithms can be debiased by altering their inputs, but doing so requires managers to think about their goals around diversity and fairness. For example, LinkedIn redesigned its recruitment search tool to ensure that...
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