Limits To Network Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners

creating social impact, was instrumental in making this internship a reality by helping to sponsor my time with the firm. Advice for Aspiring Climate Investors My advice for anyone interested in this space is View Details

01 Jan 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

Laurence Dutton SUMMING UP How Should America Admit Talented Workers of the World? The notion of attracting talented workers to the United States deserves support, especially at times when the unemployment rate is low. But the H-1B... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

to policy influence" toward "coalitions grounded in the public interest." There is room for the left and right to work on complex regulatory issues through the filter of government agencies, industry, and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

network effects allow platforms to grow exponentially, attracting ever more users and partners and eventually crowding out competitors. 3. Think like a sandwich From the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

22 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates

half-year. “The people we’re interviewing pick up on that. They see that someone who’s only been on staff for six months has already earned enough trust to assess recruits.” Yet effective recruiting means... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Jun 2002
News

New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits

cochair of ISE and an expert on nonprofit organizations, “The carryover effects of a program like this are fantastic. The fellows will bring a culture of change to nonprofit organizations that can be... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

Cohly was skilled in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian practice of herbal medicine, and suggested they try using turmeric to heal the wound instead. The spice worked, and Das and Cohly later conducted Western medical trials View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

students from around the world. To a person, the founders are proud of what they helped build together—both a groundbreaking organization and the momentum necessary to effect... View Details

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

permanently as of July 10. And almost half of owners surveyed in late June by the online business network Alignable said they lacked enough cash to get through one month and were taking in less than 50... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

that his or her followers accord the organization, including its values, its charter, and those charged with serving as stewards of these critical aspects. We have yet to see Mr. Trump evidence such respect or incite it among his fellow... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

2021
Chapter

Generating Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge: International Research Collaboration on a Hemispheric Level

By: James E. Austin, Gabriel Berger, Rosa Amelia González, Roberto Gutiérrez, Iván D. Lobo and Alfred Vernis

Provide insights on how social entrepreneurship (SE) knowledge can be more effectively generated by universities through the entrepreneurial creation and effective management of a knowledge network centered on international collaborative research; illuminate how one... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Knowledge; Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Global Range

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27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

curriculum, are frameworks I now think about all the time in my work, and it's a night-and-day difference in how effective I am with my teammates and customers." What do you think the benefits are to... View Details

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

explored questions like “How can business, government, and nonprofit leaders come together to mitigate the effects of worker displacement? How should entrants to the workforce... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control

identifying recurring problems. User communities can also lower costs by providing limited product support—especially for products and services that have been phased out—or informal support for hiring and training. Companies that have yet... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

locations. “It’s not about just the markup, which, to some extent, is just a temporary effect,” Cavallo says. “If competition with Amazon changes the way firms such as Walmart or Best Buy make pricing decisions, it can have much... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

financial gains of diversity are not limited to venture capital but also expand to goods and service-based businesses. Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting There are... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

course? Michael Luca: A deeper appreciation of the ways in which small—and sometimes subtle—changes in the way a process or product is structured can make a difference. Our intuition about these effects can also be off, which is why... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

Kominers worked with Jesse Shapiro, the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard Business School, to study how content moderation works best. The debate over moderating content comes as the US presidential... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

promotion. It’s going to affect my performance evaluation. They fear they’ll be viewed as less committed, that they’re going to be suspect. The biggest two effects of having... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

and hospitals are starting to learn these lessons, experimenting with new models of care that emphasize more talking up front. Kaplan mentions Oak Street Health, a network of clinics serving a poor, elderly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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