Publications

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e., better precision of across-firm information) than to changes in information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Sameer B. Srivastava... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2012
Case

Monsanto

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant must guide his global agribusiness technology company into an uncertain future where food security, food safety, sustainability, and climate change will all impact the global food system. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology; Food; Social and Collaborative Networks; Global Strategy; Agribusiness; Globalized Markets and Industries; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

information that’s available on the online review platforms and information that’s obtained through government regulation to gather more informative signals of restaurant... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than exciting. "I've had people say to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

with greater frequency, and these formerly isolated clusters have begun to interconnect into larger networks through which information flows more freely between companies. Such environments provide both... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

activities can be located inside a firm or across firm boundaries. In the latter case, activities may involve customers, suppliers, partners, or other stakeholders. Accompanying the physical value chain is a related information value... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

broadcast Internet access some 300 feet. Hostin said the typical user isn't surfing the Web. Instead, he's logging on, downloading e-mail, and synchronizing calendar information, all to be read at a later time. "We call our Wi-Fi View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

we found firm age to be positively associated with affect-based trust for partners of the same cultural ethnicity. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of this pattern of inter- and intra-cultural trust on international business and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

friends and acquaintances and reconnect with faces from the past. First college students, then Millennials, and soon after, their parents and grandparents were drawn in by the allure of this pioneering social network that effectively... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

discounts. Employers need health plans to encourage integrated practice units, and assemble comprehensive health information for members. Today's practice of paying health plan administrators a percentage of the company's health care... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

July 2023
Article

So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov

With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by... View Details

Keywords: Online Dating; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Gender; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks

Find at Harvard

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

phones that can speak with your phone, your phone becomes more valuable. "We see that very strongly in information technology. That effect is very important not only in terms of the hardware protocols, but also in terms of virtual... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

January 2011 (Revised April 2024)
Case

Triangulate (A)

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Lauren Barley

In October 2010, Triangulate's founder/CEO must determine what product features to develop and what marketing programs to pursue in order to boost the odds of successfully raising another venture capital round for his nine month-old Facebook dating application. The... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Product Launch; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web

January 2004 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Electronic Arts in Online Gaming

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Justin Wong

Electronic Arts (EA), the world's largest independent video-game publisher, must decide whether to support Microsoft's initiatives in online gaming. Historically, EA has been platform-agnostic, releasing versions of its titles for all major console platforms. However,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Policy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Revenue; Segmentation; Sales; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Electronics Industry

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

There's not just one solution to creating the innovative products you want for your business." Networking And Connections All of the panelists agreed that connections are key in pushing new ideas through in large corporations.... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

February 2011
Article

The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage and Determination Through Brand Biography

By: Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, Jill Avery and Juliet B. Schor

We introduce the concept of an underdog brand biography (UBB) to describe an emerging trend in branding in which firms author an historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential... View Details