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  • January 2011
  • Case

Aardvark

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Lauren Barley
Aardvark is an online social search service that allows users to pose questions and receive answers from other users in their extended social network. The case explores the process that Aardvark's founders used to design and develop their product based on intensive... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Product Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web
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  • March 2002 (Revised November 2003)
  • Case

Satellite Radio

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown
In early 2002, XM and Sirius were fighting for control of the emerging U.S. market for satellite radio. Each company targeted consumers in automobiles, providing 100 channels of CD-quality audio for a monthly subscription fee of $10-$13. Wall Street analysts predicted... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Problems and Challenges; Network Effects; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Business Model; Investment Return; Auto Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details
Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
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  • 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
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing By: Rosenzweig, Stav, Amir Grinstein, and Elie Ofek Abstract—The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 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
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

43rd in the field of information technology, and the Internet, he argued, is more important, exciting, and relevant in 2001 than it was in 2000, 1999, and 1998. "It is a Fortune 1000 burning priority," he said. Though extranets... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

speculates about whether Microsoft or Adobe would be better positioned to establish the dominant ebook standard. The possibility that the world’s biggest bookstore might eventually win that race hadn’t dawned on me. Social networks. We’d had hints of strong demand for... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • 28 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

Transplantation Network (OPTN). This national registry and waiting list is managed by the private nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which has the unenviable task of making priority and... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

political conflict and individual and group biases occasioned by organizational differentiation. We categorize the sources of functional bias into intentional, driven by misalignment of incentives, and unintentional resulting from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi Abstract—Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities-based on attributes such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

that communities play an underappreciated role in organizational theory—critical not only to occupational identity, knowledge transfer, sense-making, social support, innovation, problem-solving, and collective action but, enabled by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

behavior of U.S. politicians. We exploit a unique database linking politicians to other politicians, and linking politicians to firms, and find both channels to be influential. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2020
  • Supplement

OpenIDEO (B)

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis and Jin Hyun Paik
In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO—an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social issues—rapidly launched a new challenge to improve access to health information, empower communities to stay safe... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Competitions; IDEO; Contests; Contest Design; Platforms And Ecosystems; Open Innovation; Open And User Innovation Strategy; Diversity; Design; Social Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Pandemics; Health; Information; Business and Community Relations; Digital Platforms
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  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

Networks Authors:Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

Consumers are increasingly wary about sharing personal information with firms. Yet when they benefit from providing information in exchange for lower prices or better services, many consumers will gladly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

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