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  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2011
  • News

My First HBS Class

classroom case discussions, the students were models of decorum and probity. I attended two different classes, a second- and a first-year course. I came completely unprepared to a popular second-year Strategy course called Competing with Social Networks, taught View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

The Strength of Peripheral Ties: Maintaining Status When Firms Lose Resources

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Bharat N. Anand
This paper examines conditions under which high-status firms can retain their positions, even if they lose resources. Firms are considered high status when they obtain ties from other high-status firms. Among high-status firms, we distinguish between those that also... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Resource Allocation; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • March 2013
  • Teaching Note

Your Social Network Over Time (TN)

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai
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  • May 2013
  • Supplement

Yammer (B)

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Aaron Smith
Supplement to Yammer (A), case 712-494 View Details
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai
Since Durkheim, sociologists have believed that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Publishing; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Societal Protocols
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  • March 2013
  • Case

Zynga (B)

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Aaron Smith
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  • 2003
  • Other Unpublished Work

Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets

By: Rakesh Khurana and Mikolaj J. Piskorski
Keywords: Management; Equality and Inequality
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  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

  PublicationsThe Power of Small Wins Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Powerful Ideas - Annual Report 2014

Aldo Musacchio China Associate Professor Mikolaj Piskorski A Century of Business Research The Bureau of Business Research was founded in 1911 with the aim of deriving concrete, usable information within... View Details
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

identified and classified in terms of specifying, allocating, and utilizing capacity. The first two categories reflect challenges faced by infrastructure providers; the last category, challenges faced by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski (Princeton University Press) The secret of successful social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

Piskorski Abstract This paper proposes a straightforward way of differentiating between central network positions that confer power and those that confer status. I argue that actors achieve high status by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace