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General Management More Local Events Local Community Events Harvard Wyss institute- upcoming events Berkman Center for Internet and Society- upcoming events Harvard Innovation Lab- upcoming events The Political Economy of Religion Seminar... View Details
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Mobility Policy | About
technology are bringing a wide range of personal mobility devices to the market. This policy seeks to provide a safe environment for all users of campus pathways and roadways. What devices fall under this policy? Motorized bicycles : A... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
users. Furthermore, they suggest that users may become so enamored of the technology that their contact with friends and family is diminished. On a societal level, note Bradley and Bane, "broadband may prove to be a leveler, providing... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
incremental change, Kanter explains. And early reviews indicate that Windows 8 feels like a journey into the unknown. She cites the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, who reports, "even its most devoted users won't recognize the... View Details
- 08 May 2015
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Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud
Managing symbolic and exclusive brands involves an inherent tradeoff. Managers seek to generate growth by extending the customer base to new segments and markets. Yet increased popularity can dilute the exclusivity of the brand in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
There is also a network effect at work in that everyone on a project needs to use the tool for it to generate the most value to any one user or to the system. I would study what Slack did and get the tool... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
for these nonemergencies, the city relaunched it in August. The rebranded BOS:311 allows users to report a wider variety of nonemergency issues through more mediums, including Twitter. “There is a big difference between nominally... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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Credits - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Content Credits All intellectual content on this site is reproduced from the 1986 Baker Library print publication Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money, Credit and Speculation: Sixteenth through... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
about “content moderation”—not for the easy topics like spam or copyright material—but for the hard things revolving around political points of view, hate speech, polarizing perspectives, etc. How will Facebook strike the balance between free speech and corrosive View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2014
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Seeing glass in a new light
Mulpuri's leadership, View has pioneered the large-scale commercialization of architectural dynamic glass. The company designs, manufactures, and sells a new generation of window-glass nanotechnology that intelligently adjusts in response... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Powering on wireless electricity
fundamentally changes the world,” he says. "Anything with a cord or a disposable battery is a candidate for being replaced." The technology, which generates less radiation than Earth’s magnetic field, allows the View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Who, Me?
personality, careers, and sex, and includes a “social network” component comprised of dating and “friend-finding” services based on personality tests that link like-minded people. Users are charged for the dating service and for in-depth... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
capacity to induce salacious disclosures.” Given the “illusion of intimacy” that social media creates, users may be deceived about who sees your “temporary” post, John says. In follow-up surveys, the researchers found that many people who... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
knowledgeable coach, ready to help users do whatever they need to get done. In fact, the City of Boston has spent the last 3+ years reinventing how it interacts with citizens online in exactly this way. The City Hall team I joined this... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Gotta Dance
by a sassy song (“Eyes Lips Face”) composed and recorded for the campaign. Over 3 million TikTok users (including many unsolicited celebrities) posted videos in response to the campaign, generating 4 billion... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
content, you’re competing with other three-minute content sites; you shouldn’t consider households with six-minute slots that they’ll divide. That’s a stark implication of what we found.” It would seem that one bright spot favoring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Up by the Roots
its wine, but inferior product from Canada and China had begun flooding the market, driving down retail prices from $50 a pound that year to $12 a pound by 2006. Instead of joining the family business, Hsu went to work for General Mills... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
information" issued until that moment, from the Encyclopedia Britannica to audio and video. "I think it will be a radical change toward much, much more information and user empowerment. I believe that business models will emerge... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
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Searching for a Better Society
"Lots of companies were buying the same products for different prices, and we were trying to make it more transparent. The problem was that the product users did not want transparency. We approached it like consultants, but I learned that... View Details