Data Network Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2020
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HBS Votes

in our country and wanted to leverage our abilities to work towards solutions. What started as purely grassroots networking with peers has led to thousands of followers on Instagram, over 175 people committing to be poll workers, many... View Details

08 Aug 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance

importantly, they are my neighbors, my colleagues, and my friends.” Gower sees few differences between effectively running a corporation and a local government office, although he thinks the business world could learn a thing or two from... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

networking cards; Modular Visions Systems; and Gage Electronics, the first manufacturer of computer-based instrumentation. In 1991, the need to find and warn family members of their genetic heritage prompted Diamond to concentrate on that... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

growth is picking up, too. Investors are excited about getting in early.” SpaceX took about 10 years to be worth $1 billion, he says. Planet Labs, a company that wants to create an Earth-imaging satellite network with open View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study of the modern era of venture... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2014
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All For One

mission, says Hill, it is insufficient without creating the ability to innovate as well. As Hill and her coauthors analyzed data from the organizations they followed, they identified three capabilities each exhibited, which they call... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Books

point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA

they can practice what they have learned in the classroom,” she explains. “Since we don’t have such facilities at our disposal, we have to build a global network of partners that are willing to become, in essence, teaching hospitals for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top

the lawyers or the accountants. Schleyer: The big offenders get people talking, but I don't believe the American public has in general lost confidence in corporate America. Wagoner: Realistically, yes, the data suggest that business... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

more, the Jiffy Lube woman comes out car's ready! The nearest Kinko's is only two blocks away. I load Norton Utilities onto my laptop, and it miraculously recovers all the data on my doomed floppy. I pop the disk into one of the PCs at... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

former professors if they’d heard of a new technology that could be the basis of a start-up. Faculty member Jeff Rayport threw out a few ideas before Wilcox got specific: He was looking for something that would change the world. So in true View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

the district's failures has been held up as a model for other cities, Alonso underscores the iterative process required to effect system-wide improvement. "My first year at PELP, we were launching a huge reform effort that pushed... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

your career choices. Be who you are everywhere. Finally, establish a female network and maintain it in spite of distance and demands on your time. When constructing this group, ensure that at least one member has the gusto to disagree... View Details

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

advertising and marketing filled with stark depictions of the harsh realities of drug use. On this episode of Skydeck, Langford speaks with associate editor Julia Hanna about how they’ll craft these messages, how effective they can be—and... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

York, Baer had closely monitored the Giants’ plummeting finances and their unsuccessful attempts to get San Francisco voters to approve funds for a new stadium. After East Coast business hours and with Tisch’s blessing, he began View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

first step was figuring out how to most effectively grow lettuce in climate-controlled shipping containers in this former root beer plant. “We’re doing this in a very logical, road-mapping way. We’re not trying to bend the laws of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

were more effective than any integration or separate-but-equal strategy concocted by senior management. “The Gambro dialysis tech would say, ‘Hey, what’s all this weird stuff about village and community?’” Thiry says. “A very high... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story

one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

activity. Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and Unit Head, Technology and Operations Management; and Karim... View Details

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