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  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

these costs. However, existing resilience trainings are often conducted in-person, suffer from low levels of engagement, and are difficult to scale to large groups of employees. In the current study, we compared change in resilience over time among employees who were... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

  Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20667 Multi-Sided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

startups because of Sequoia specifically? To test if the name of a top investor makes a difference in luring applicants, the researchers collaborated with AngelList Talent, an online recruitment platform, to conduct a randomized... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study incentives to invest in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

while users who are influenced by listings' visual presentation and page position became more likely to click on Google's own Flight Search listing. The authors consider implications of these findings for competition policy and for online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

chart from the same two years. Chances are, those two charts look pretty similar. Sure, there are organizational outliers, like online shoe-seller Zappos, which famously adopted “holacracy,” a structure of no job titles and no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

and those with lack of access to education and transportation face after prison.” The manufacturer Owens Corning finally gave him a chance. At the same time, he set out to solve the problem his experience revealed. Blakeman spent weekends building an View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812116-PDF-ENG OpenIDEO Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina, and Stephanie Healy PokrywaHarvard Business School Case 612-066 The case describes OpenIDEO, an online offshoot... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

developing fresh capabilities for organizations. Based on a study of all the programs offered by the business schools, consultancies, corporate universities, and online education providers, we analyze the advantages, and the constraints,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

advertising strategy, and leather sourcing issues. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-070 The Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

platform might be too good to be true. The company was crowdsourcing creative work, inviting people to both pitch ideas and create marketing videos — and promising to pay anywhere from a few hundred for the best concepts to several... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

Bitcoin, a software-based online payment system, and he sees similarities between technology adoption roadblocks Bitcoin has encountered and issues Apple Pay is likely to face. "Apple Pay has the same problems as Bitcoin: There's no... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

but I Want to Watch the Comedy Now: Intrapersonal Conflict and Myopia in Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

theory examining how both organizations and employees benefit by encouraging authentic self-expression. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-067.pdf Platform Competition under Partial Belief Advantage Authors:Hanna... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

panel agreed. Ullas Naik, managing director of JAFCO Ventures, noticed a trend toward more open operating systems. "People aren't buying dedicated servers," he said. "They're buying blades." The new thinking is to avoid huge packaged View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

partnership with the online review platform Yelp helped the researchers evaluate consumers’ interest in dining at restaurants as well as ordering food for delivery and takeout. The team found that: People... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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