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March 2006
Case

Bringing OTC back to the Exchange: Euronext.liffe's launch of ABC

Euronex.liffe, a derivatives trading exchange, launches matching, clearing, and confirmation services for the over-the-counter market. This combination of services creates a new platform for a market that potentially cannibalizes its current exchange-based services. Is... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Consolidation; Financial Markets; Network Effects

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

Summing Up What Isn't Off Limits When it Comes to Transparency? The discussion of this month's column on corporate transparency to employees made it clear that we have reached a point at which disclosure of pay information in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

June 2011
Teaching Note

PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients (TN)

By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis

Teaching Note for 511093. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Disorders; Growth and Development; Product Launch; Web Services Industry

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

in the end by showing employees that it is okay to cheat." Sairam Inumella asserts, "New legislation is not a solution to this 'problem' ... . Maybe this copycat competition will help the networks move toward strategies that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

existing wifi networks to allow users to make calls on their mobile phones without purchasing extra minutes. “These startups are like fleas on the backs of dinosaurs too big to do much about it” "Decoupling separates two or more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the importance of business networks have arisen. In the case of Mexico, the literature argues that entrepreneurs relied heavily on an View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

unconcerned. Engagement on various applications on the Facebook platform is up. Users appear comfortable with the trade they make to give up privileged information in exchange for a range of convenient and free services. Without a push by... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

2016
Article

Peer-to-Peer Markets

By: Liran Einav, Chiara Farronato and Jonathan Levin

Peer-to-peer markets such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb allow small suppliers to compete with traditional providers of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy... View Details

Keywords: Peer-to-peer; Online Platforms; Matching; Innovation; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Market Design; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit

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07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

analyze their own companies and how they create next-generation executives. And execs early in their work lives should use this information to think long and hard about the first companies they join. Says Higgins: "Understanding the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
Case

Music and the (Real) World: Thirty Years of MTV

By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon

The case is useful for teaching students the structure of creative industries - especially fashion - and the issues to consider when attempting disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship in these industries. View Details

Keywords: Industry Structures; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Internet and the Web; Networks

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits-but not social welfare nonprofits-when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization. We conclude that despite globalizing trends, the local geographic community continues... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

on cost savings, then get upset when they don't materialize quickly enough. Q: What research are you working on now? A: I'm looking at how the Italian networks of small and medium-sized companies use technology. It turns out that they... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

15 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2021 (Revised December 2021)
Case

Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform

By: Chiara Farronato, Stefano Denicolai and Sarah Mehta

Telepass, until very recently the sole processor of electronic toll payments on Italy’s highways, has ambitions beyond tolling. Since the mid-2010s, the company has been expanding into adjacent services. In 2017, Telepass launched TelepassPay—a mobile payment... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Networks Published: September 14, 2009 Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

January 2006 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Wikis at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: (A)

In October 2005, Myrto Lazopoulou, head of user centered design at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), contemplates how to spread the usage of wikis inside the company. As a "social software" like chats and blogs (both already in use at DrKW),... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Investment Banking; Applications and Software; Social and Collaborative Networks; Cooperation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

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