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  • 23 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

operational improvement—and yet, over the past two decades, Buurtzorg has improved faster and more effectively with their alternative decentralized model. “There is a structure behind it, accountability within teams, and a lot of feedback... View Details
Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

that a leading affiliate network could have invoked an optimal payment delay to eliminate 71% of fraud without decreasing profit. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-072.pdf Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2022
  • Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
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  • May 2024
  • Case

LinkedIn Corporation, 2024

By: David B. Yoffie, George Gonzalez and Emily Grandjean
By 2024, the LinkedIn profile was well established as the professional identity of record on the Internet. Following a multi-year effort to expand the platform’s user base, as well as a period of rapid growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, LinkedIn’s membership had... View Details
Keywords: Platform; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Social Media; Network Effects; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Technology Industry; Employment Industry; Sunnyvale
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    Alan D. MacCormack

    Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

    Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • Web

    Marketing - Faculty & Research

    for the 2022 John D. C. Little Award. They study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb hosts. Their empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

    This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

    • 10 Dec 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Multi-sided Platforms

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright; Technology
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

    By: Peter Tufano
    We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to save, to those that make it hard not to save, make it easier to save, provide... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Income; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

    By: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks and Patrick Kalaher
    Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated.... View Details
    Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Performance Improvement; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Competency and Skills; Framework; Competitive Advantage; Global Strategy; Opportunities; Cost
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    • 21 Oct 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: October 21, 2008

    plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2007
    • Chapter

    Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and TruePoint in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial Goals

    By: Michael Beer and Niclas Adler
    The gap between theory and practice has been of concern to both practitioners and academics, yet other than pleas to close the gap with more accessible writing by academics and more interest in research by practitioners few systematic efforts have been made to close... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Knowledge Management; Management; Goals and Objectives; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Improvement; Practice; Research and Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Theory; Value; United States
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    • Program

    Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

    contribution. You will acquire the frameworks to align corporate strategy with financial reporting—and help your company operate more effectively in today's rigorous market and regulatory environment. You may also be interested in the... View Details
    • 03 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

    markets. That may be in part because there’s less redundant knowledge to begin with. The effect is highest when workers at the startups socialize. When startups share common areas like kitchens, the “distance of influence” increases, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Program

    Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

    Summary Performance measurement is essential for organizational innovation, learning, and success. Nonprofits, however, must evaluate social or environmental outcomes as well as financial performance, and the ideal metrics are not always easy to identify. Indeed, to... View Details
    • 08 May 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

    unexpected networking opportunities, generating a tight community of German businesspeople in India. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54465 How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Dec 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing

    Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Wesley Brandi; Publishing; Technology
    • 03 Apr 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions

    Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Yuhai Xuan
    • 07 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

    Network effects can provide an advantage Some products become more competitive the wider the network of customers. For instance, Facebook benefits from the wide user base that... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Web

    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    balances, mobility, and social networks as well as borrowers’ self-reported income and employment. We further show that this positive impact is more pronounced when borrowers have limited access to credit, take loans for business... View Details