Network Centrality - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

the venture capital industry between 1995 and 2009 to determine how firms can create a distinct identity by setting themselves apart from high-status organizations within their industry. Specifically, he examined how a VC firm's position in a coinvestment View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

26 Jul 2016
News

HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform

Catalant is now a platform-based solution that “allows global organizations to centralize the process of sourcing independent talent by giving business leaders direct and immediate access to Catalant’s View Details

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Management: Setting Employees Up for Success Chinenye C. Offor Ogunro (PhD) 2017 Network Administrative Organizations: Using Centralized External Governance to Improve the Performance of Health Care View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

13 Jan 2021
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change. At BEI, we help to amplify the impact of faculty research by disseminating these critical insights to practitioners, students, and leaders in the field. Alumni are a central focus of our work at the BEI and we are fortunate to... View Details

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

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Global Reach | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Collection (E43). Download the International Teachers Program pamphlet (interior). Letter to Central and Eastern European Teachers Program participants, July 20, 1992. Francis J. Aguilar Papers (GA 2.25). Download the Letter to View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

basis." Passing the book. Favored by the NYSE, this approach involves creating a network of partners around the world who would pick up business in their time zone as soon as an earlier one closed down. "At the end of a typical... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

April 2012 (Revised March 2013)
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Social Strategy at Harvard Business Review

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and David Chen

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) Group was an early adopter of social media, boasting a robust presence on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Now the company is seeking to evolve the Group's efforts from social media to social strategy—and start moving both revenue... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web; Publishing Industry; United States

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21 May 2021
News

See Us Unite for Change

Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998), the founder of Care.com and TAAF board member, is an executive producer of the event. “Not only are business leaders, activists and talent coming together to support this cause, but we have networks and media... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Social Media - Alumni

LinkedIn HBS maintains a central group to support professional networking among alumni. For industry groups, contact our team to see if your needs can be met through a sub-group. For section groups, consider... View Details

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Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

that contribute to development and are crucial for growth.” Abena began with GE’s medical and health care device divisions, serving as a business analyst responsible for “increasing growth and market share” in West & Central Africa.... View Details

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Staff Catering Guidelines | About

pre-approved by the department Business Manager. There may be occasional scenarios where it makes sense for HBS to pay for a meal for HBS INTERNAL employees only, particularly when cross-departmental collaboration and networking... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

What is Web3?

Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. The solution turned out to be so... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

expanding their own data-gathering and crunching capabilities through advancements like sensor networks and sophisticated modeling software. What if cities could make use of all that data to better give residents what they need—for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced in the past. Despite recognition's centrality to strategic choice, we have limited knowledge of its nature and its... View Details