Publications

Article

Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram

Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Market Transactions; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Networks; Culture; Complexity; Public Administration Industry

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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses MOC Network reaches 20 y... MOC Network 20 th Anniversary Workshop The December 2022 workshop was... View Details

August 2023
Teaching Note

Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Kumba Sennaar

April 2016
Article

Effects of Narrow Networks on Access to High-Quality Cancer Care

By: Stephen M. Schleicher, Samyukta Mullangi and Thomas W. Feeley

June 2002 (Revised April 2003)
Teaching Note

USA Today: Pursuing the Network Strategy (A) & (B) TN

By: Michael J. Roberts and Michael L. Tushman

Teaching Note for (9-402-010) and (9-402-011). View Details

29 Aug 2023
News

As Social Networks Get More Competitive, Which Ones Will Survive?

1997
Working Paper

A Knowledge-based Model of IT Outsourcing for the Network Era

By: Deborah L. Sole, F. Warren McFarlan and Richard L. Nolan

13 Jul 2020
News

Use Your Social Network as a Tool for Social Justice

Article

Syndication Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Venture Capital Investments

By: Olav Sorenson and Toby E. Stuart

Keywords: Media; Networks; Venture Capital; Investment; Media and Broadcasting Industry

June 2008
Case

From xiaonei to hainei: The Quest for the Social Networking Service Market in China

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong

Wang Xing, the founder of Hainei.com, one of the fastest growing social networking service (SNS) providers in China, was preparing to raise funds from venture capitalists. Since late 2003, Wang had established several Internet startups in China. Xiaonei.com, which he... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Internet; China

2008
Working Paper

Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram

Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; Social Issues

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August 18, 2011
Article

Defining the Contributions of Network Clock Models to Millisecond Timing

By: Uma R. Karmarkar

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01 Oct 2019
News

Can Gimlet Turn a Podcast Network Into a Disruptive Platform?

Video

Alumni Wilderness Survival Handbook: Chapter 3 - Use the Network

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

Clubs News Clubs News Clubs Take 2020 Global Networking Online to Explore the Future of Work For the first time ever, HBS alumni around the world gathered online and across time zones on October 20 to kick off the HBS Global View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

March 2000
Article

The Duality of Collaboration: Inducements and Opportunities in the Formation of Interfirm Linkages

By: Gautam Ahuja

I argue that the linkage-formation propensity of firms is explained by simultaneously examining both inducement and opportunity factors. Drawing upon resource-based and social network theory literatures I identify three forms of accumulated... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Innovation; Networks; Strategy; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry

June 2021
Teaching Note

The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition

By: Meg Rithmire

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-045. View Details

Keywords: 5G; Technology; China