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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2022
  • Case

SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

50 employees) but was poised for significant growth. For founder and CEO Michael Lebowitz, the central challenge was to figure out whether and how the agency could retain its boutique culture while transcending its boutique size. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

members. In contrast, The New York Times has 2.2 million digital-only subscribers, and the cable news networks are doing well when their prime-time viewership hits a million. “It’s much more complex today,” Heese says. “Academically, it... View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

highlight the need for firms to be mindful of the behavioral implications of making add-ons readily available in the marketplace. Creating Superior Customer Value in a Connected World Author:Ranjay Gulati Publication:In Business Network... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

TetraScience: Noise and Signal

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
In 2019, TetraScience CEO “Spin” Wang needed advice. Five years earlier, he had cofounded a startup that saw early success with a hardware product designed to help laboratory scientists in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical spaces more easily collect data from... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Digital Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Organizational Structure; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Boston
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  • 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
  • September 2020 (Revised February 2023)
  • Teaching Note

Uber: Competing Globally

By: Alexander J. MacKay
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Strategy; Globalization; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation Networks; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai; Shanghai Shi; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; London; England; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia
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  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-067.pdf How Firm Strategies Influence the Architecture of Transaction Networks Authors:Jianxi Luo, Daniel E. Whitney, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

dataset that exists in comprehensiveness and quality. So, add that data advantage with the fact that India is making these big infrastructure investments like the Golden Quadrilateral highway network and you have a very rich environment... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

experience, which makes them more productive. Say they join your company at age 24 or 25 and then after four or five years, they decide to start a family. They’ve got five years of work experience; they have a network inside the company;... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

could be clustering in certain sectors because they have a competitive advantage over native-born citizens, either by possessing special skills or by having supportive social networks in their ethnic groups that can help them navigate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

copyrighted content over peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing networks and its impact on the music industry and to assess the viable business models for the industry in the future. Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2014
  • What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

information and social networking sector. Several respondents to this month's column argued that we are. As Kamal Gupta put it, "Facebook's valuation was explained to me by people I consider smarter than me as valuation of its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct View Details
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

finally, the right question became, why is competition failing? And that led us to the distinction between zero-sum competition and positive-sum competition, and the central importance of value. Q: Why isn't high quality, value-driven... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • April 2021
  • Case

Codecademy: Where to Next?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Max Mailman and Sarah Ascherman
In March 2020, Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO of online education platform Codecademy, prepared for a meeting with his Chief of Staff Kunal Ahuja to discuss the company’s goals. Codecademy billed itself as the largest online resource for computer science literacy and... View Details
Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Business Model; Change Management; Venture Capital; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Teams; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Network Effects; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; United States
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  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers against large stores. Instead of simply reducing the number of new large stores entering a market, the entry barriers created the incentive for large retail chains to invest in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Convenience Stores (A) Faced with a persistent robbery problem at his convenience store company, Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac’s of Central Canada, looked to standardize safety measures and devise a new way of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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