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- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
trip, recently talked to Professor Kerr about his research and his observations in China. Mike Roberts: Tell us about your impressions of China. Bill Kerr: My central observation from our trip is that China is at a tipping point for... View Details
- August 2023
- Teaching Note
Newlab: Scaling an Innovation Engine
By: Tarun Khanna and Felicia Belostecinic
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-364. View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
to today's Network Era characterized by the Internet. From roughly 1970 to 1980, DIS concentrated on the management of mainframes and the chief individual responsible for information technology, the Information Systems (IS) manager. At... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert effective monetary policy. Yet the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Thesis
Being B-Boys: Style, Identity, and Respect Among New England and Miami Street Dancers
By: Curtis K. Chan
This study examines the phenomenon of a street dance known as "b-boying" to explore how dancers locate, negotiate, and perform identities, as well as the tensions that occur concomitantly. Drawing on data from participant-observation, interviews, and diverse archival... View Details
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
because most content on Wikipedia appears to originate at the fringes of the community from anonymous or infrequent contributors. (A central core of about 1,200 volunteers refines the pieces over time and generally tends the Wikipedia... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation, whereas it is shifted towards the marketplace for long-tail products. We thus provide a theory of which products an intermediary should offer in each... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
knowledge sharing networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository (KR) has the potential to help peripheral individuals gain access to valuable knowledge because it is universally available and can be used... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Japan. It has built a network of plants, distributors, and service centers around the world. Senior management is convinced that a major reason for its success is its culture, recently articulated as the Komatsu Way. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
publishers and retailers to social networks and gaming sites. Job growth on the Internet stands in sharp contrast to the US economy as a whole, which has suffered from high unemployment for years. The report found that the gross domestic... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes the information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
orchestrates, manages, and coordinates its network of hundreds of global partners." It just isn't possible for one firm to master all these skills. MacCormack and his team (Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher, all of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address market should discourage subdividing IP address blocks more than necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Publications "From Visible Harm to Relative Risk: Centralization and Fragmentation of Pharmacovigilance Author: Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication: Chap. 13 in The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care, Oxford University Press, 2010... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
embedded in the local network while also having access to global markets. It bridges the two worlds, helping the cluster maintain its competitive advantage. In one Brenta firm, skilled workers translate international designers' sketches... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 2020
- Teaching Note
The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?
By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Kerry Herman and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching note serves as a supplement to “The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?” HBS 420-025. View Details
Keywords: Change; Change Management; Transformation; Leadership; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Strategy; Alignment; Transportation; Air Transportation; Transportation Networks; Air Transportation Industry; North and Central America; United States; California; Los Angeles
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
money service, Oi Paggo, but ultimately decided to re-launch the service under a different model. Regulations that are too strict can stifle innovation. In Sri Lanka, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) initially required all mobile... View Details