Internet and the Web - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

concert promoters very smartly, and that helped propel her into stardom. They also used the Internet really well, communicating with fans on social media View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

compare to the networks of line workers within those divisions. If theory is correct, corporate staff networks should be larger and more centralized than those of line workers. Stuart View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2011
News

cultural issues. — Debbie Rosenbaum (MBA ’08/JD ’10) is an intellectual property, technology, and Internet attorney with a law firm in Washington, D.C. She also works with entrepreneurs on new-media... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada.... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

deal that brings some rationality to the valuation of Internet stocks. These are just some generic strategies, of course. Your viability as a nonconsolidator will depend directly on View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

01 Apr 2001
News

Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians

When you think of kids and music these days, it’s easier to imagine Chopin and Elgar spinning in their graves than getting any airtime. But move over, J.Lo — a classical music radio show, driven by youthful... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

The School’s Immersion Experience Programs challenge MBAs with active, cross-cultural learning situations around the globe, from Silicon Valley to China to Europe. An on-the-ground report from Mexico’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

Research Summary

Overview

By: Lynda M. Applegate

My current research builds on past research on the role of information, analytics and technology in transforming business and society. Over the past two years, this research focuses on how organizations partner to build innovation ecosystems that accelerate the... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Ecosystems; Leadership And Change Management; Organizational Adaptation; Innovation and Invention; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Organizations; Technology; Strategy; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Africa; North and Central America; Middle East

01 Dec 2002
News

Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story

compared with other online content sites. In an effort to defend their print businesses, newspapers have failed to realize that a new business is growing all around them,” says Gilbert. For example, he adds, “the Internet is View Details

February 2015 (Revised September 2016)
Teaching Note

Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics

By: Leslie K. John and Michael Norton

Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Making sticK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics (514019). The case focuses on a... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Behavior Change; B2B Vs. B2C; Human Resource Management; Marketing Of Innovations; Health ＆ Wellness; Weight Loss; Charitable Giving; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Health; Business Model; Sales; Human Resources; Health Industry; United States

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08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

you, you need to be vulnerable with them as well, and there aren’t a lot of ways to be more vulnerable than putting your glitter-covered doodles on the world wide web for sale.... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

so few eyebrows. Comments from readers of this column suggest that marketing has, in practice, moved beyond the product development, promotion, pricing, and distribution activities that defined View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

been using Clarivate Web of Science to collect citation and reference patterns from more than 12,000 works across 15 disciplines published as of 2015, with the goal of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

consumption, fewer paved roads, and fewer Internet users," he writes. That wasn't all. "Almost all broad measures of governance were also weaker for the double-digit... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

The great thing about standards, tech industry pundit Andrew Tanenbaum once said, is that there are so many to choose from. In fact, standard setting organizations (SSOs) are the unsung heroes of View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

04 Sep 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Bounce Back

questions about the continuing reign of email and how to put it to use in any industry. How is email monetization different from web optimization? Email monetization places... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

06 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

compared with modern marketing techniques, the Reconstruction Era actually shared some advertising commonalities with the dot-com boom. "The rise of the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

19 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Evolution of Agribusiness

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web... View Details

Keywords: Re: David E. Bell & Ray A. Goldberg; Agriculture & Agribusiness

May 2002 (Revised October 2002)
Case

Telewest Communications plc

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Laure Mougeot Stroock

Created in 1992, Telewest has become the second largest broadband communication provider in the United Kingdom, offering telephone, cable television, and cable Internet services, as well as television and online content to the U.K. entertainment market. The first to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; United Kingdom