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  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

New Releases

Sense & Respond Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, editors (Harvard Business School Press) In the Network Era - where access to and use of information technology is increasing at an ever-faster pace - the way companies interact with... View Details
  • Career Coach

Sarah Sikowitz

those seeking internships or full-time roles at startups. Sarah also helps students and alumni develop personal brand narratives, build effective resumes and navigate the networked job search. Work... View Details
  • 06 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

short-term increase in otherwise steady charitable-giving patterns among firms that are headquartered in the event's host city. Natural disasters also have a strong effect on firms' giving patterns, according to the study Punctuated... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

New Releases

The Differentiated Network by Nitin Nohria and Sumantra Ghoshal (Jossey-Bass Publishers) The key to building an effective multinational corporation (MNC) is organizing its various parts as a differentiated... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • Web

Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

We look at the idea of government as a platform and ways to leverage their network effects for growth. We tackle these topics mostly through case discussion, and we spend time with many guests.... View Details
  • Web

Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

communication When management effectively communicates the connection between employee ownership and wealth-building activities within the firm, employees become much more engaged and less likely to leave, even in times of extreme... View Details
  • May 2004
  • Background Note

56K Modem Battle

By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the battle to set the standard for the 56K modem. Set in 1996, this case looks at how computers accessed the Internet via a telephone line, or dial-up connection, and a hardware modem. In 1995, there were 18.6 million total modem unit shipments, with market... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Revenue; Patents; Product Launch; Network Effects; Standards; Competition; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Illinois
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  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

from a social welfare perspective. Q: In general, what surprised you about the results? What assumptions did you have going in that didn't hold up? A: When we began the project, we thought that network View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • February 2017
  • Case

BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Web Services Industry; France; Europe
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  • Web

Global Maps - Creating Emerging Markets

visualization explore trade networks from both micro- and macroeconomic perspectives. EarthPulse A visual guide to global trends, National Geographic’s EarthPulse has maps and detailed charts showing the View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

The Long Run

persistence in offering SARA’s hard data—and solutions—to craft effective legislation. Langford is a frequent presence at Georgia’s state capitol, working to influence policy addressing the opioid epidemic. “We’re going to be running... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden
  • Web

Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses. What are effective strategies for winning in markets with network effects? How can technology be leveraged to build... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Education Leadership Project (PELP), a unique partnership between the Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a network of urban school districts. This rich array of cases explores the managerial challenges... 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
  • March 2006 (Revised December 2009)
  • Compilation

Skype

By: Peter A. Coles and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Presents eBay's rationale for its $2.6 billion acquisition in late 2005 of Skype, a fast growing voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) provider. Describes Skype's history, technology, business model, and competition, as well as government regulation of VoIP services. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Communication Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Telecommunications Industry
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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

influencing the stakeholders making purchasing decisions Understand the importance of brand-building and the key components of an effective brand Build a media strategy across paid, earned, and owned channels Evaluate and identify growth... View Details
  • February 2021
  • Article

Platform Diffusion at Temporary Gatherings: Social Coordination and Ecosystem Emergence

By: Tommy Pan Fang, Andy Wu and David R. Clough
Software platforms create value by cultivating an ecosystem of complementary products and services. Existing explanations for how a prospective complementor chooses platforms to join assume the complementor has rich information about the range of available platforms.... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Ecosystems; Technology Diffusion; Hackathon; Contagion; Software Applications; Software Development; Software Engineering; Technology Strategy; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Innovation Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Applications and Software; Information Technology; Technology Industry; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry; Video Game Industry
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  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16254 Does Ethnicity Pay Authors:Yasheng Huang, Li Jin, and Yi Qian Abstract One of the most important and one of the most heavily studied ethnic networks in the world is overseas Chinese. However, almost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

Boston mechanism. Both results have important implications for the efficiency and the stability of the mechanisms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-093.pdf Network Effects in Countries'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization and the demands of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting