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- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
it through to make a positive change. Purchase the Book: http://www.library.hbs.edu/forms/purchaseform/ The Power of Alumni Networks Authors:Lauren Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 10 (October... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Amazon books on its site. The affiliate then receives a commission for books Amazon sells through these links. Barter exchanges, also called link exchanges, entail the trading (with no money exchanged) of links between Internet sites.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
antitrust laws also don’t deal well with companies that took advantage of network effects to become huge and now are perceived as ‘too big to fail’ or to do anything about.” Does antitrust law need a high tech reset? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
she says. For a company the size of McDonald’s, it posed a massive operational challenge. Hurdles included everything from structure—McDonald’s kitchens were designed to operate in two separate “day parts,” breakfast and everything else—to securing global supply View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
requirements. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19018 Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture By:Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
and trading many others; creating and maintaining blogs, some of which are more frequently visited today than network television shows; contributing and editing items on the ever-changing open-network... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
fabric of globalized production that comes in a period of conflict. We're betting, and hoping of course, that the conflict remains narrowly focused on breaking the terrorist networks and doesn't turn into a wider war. If it were to go to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
relative viability, even if one focuses just on prices, is the pass-through of a higher price realization to the global producer after typically higher transportation and distribution costs, tariffs, or even risks, are netted out. Empirical evidence from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
concentrated among firms with high growth opportunities or firms confronting adverse circumstances, consistent with boardroom connections mattering most for firms that stand to benefit most from the information communicated and resources exchanged through the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
trade perceptions of competence for likeability-the more successful they appear, the less positively they are regarded. Such trends affect both organizational openness to female leaders and the conceptions women have about themselves as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at least 50 basis points over ten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
large economies for the 2001 to 2005 period. We investigate reasons why Chinese firms are more diversified than companies elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach—We collect data on the number of business segments in which publicly traded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
company is doing a good job preparing for Y2K, you may have essential business links to companies that aren't. Is my desktop vulnerable? Yes. A computer is different from most other consumer products. When you buy a new car, you trade in... View Details