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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
information and intellectual hub, offering a full menu of resources to help scholars understand today’s world. Like the ubiquitous but invisible wireless network that connects the campus, many of the changes... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees settlers, whose number is determined by an annual cap set in advance. These refugees are distributed to 10 resettlement agencies, each of which runs a network of local affiliates that have their own... View Details
- April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
National Instruments
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri Pearlson and Natalie Kindred
This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based in Austin, Texas, with over $1 billion in 2011 sales, NI designs, produces, and sells software and hardware platforms... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Management; Media; Management Systems; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Texas
Applegate, Lynda M., Keri Pearlson, and Natalie Kindred. "National Instruments." Harvard Business School Case 813-001, April 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
advertisers, historical and real-time traffic information to insurance underwriters, and more. Mistele was a Detroit kid, the son of a lawyer, who had an early interest in technology. “When I was in high school, I worked for an electrical... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
networks that are internal and external to the organization. "It's a process of shifting from vertical management to horizontal collaboration. One's title and role are far less important than the capacity to get things done."... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
Indian nonprofit devoted to supporting the millions of low-income women who toil in the country’s informal economy. Serving young people and working mothers, brother and sister each came to believe that intervening at the preschool and... View Details
- August 2004 (Revised August 2005)
- Background Note
Online Auction Markets
eBay, Yahoo!, and Amazon.com entered the online auction market within four years of one another, along with a host of smaller Web sites. Five years later, eBay clearly outstripped its competitors, despite the fact that Yahoo! and Amazon both had a huge installed base... View Details
Yin, Pai-Ling. "Online Auction Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-411, August 2004. (Revised August 2005.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Fall Reunions
big draw was, as usual, an unsurpassed menu of faculty presentations and class panels, networking and nostalgia opportunities, one-on-one career counseling, and class and section parties and outings. A special breakfast, marking the 50th... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud
By: Michael Luca and Georgios Zervas
Consumer reviews are now part of everyday decision-making. Yet, the credibility of these reviews is fundamentally undermined when businesses commit review fraud, creating fake reviews for themselves or their competitors. We investigate the economic incentives to commit... View Details
Keywords: Information; Competition; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas. "Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud." Working Paper. (May 2015. Revise and resubmit, Management Science.)
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- June 2024
- Article
The Monitoring Role of Social Media
By: Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli
In this study, we examine whether social media activity can reduce corporate misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of 3G mobile broadband access across the United States to identify exogenous increases in social media activity and test whether access to 3G... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Twitter; Corporate Accountability; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks
Heese, Jonas, and Joseph Pacelli. "The Monitoring Role of Social Media." Review of Accounting Studies 29, no. 2 (June 2024): 1666–1706.
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni Take Cold Calls in New York City
Alumni gathered in New York City in November for a dynamic case discussion — a special benefit for members of the HBS Fund Investors Society. John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS, joined alumni for a reception and then led... View Details
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
of American Independence." But Wikipedia also employs a series of consensus driven vetting processes that strive to ensure the information is accurate, is verifiable, is built on solid sources, and excludes personal opinion. Just as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
RallyPoint a Winner
In military parlance, a rally point is where soldiers scattered on a mission are to meet up. So when Iraq veterans Yinon Weiss (MBA 2011) and Aaron Kletzing (HBS 2013) launched a start-up to help veterans network and land civilian jobs,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Back to School
Photographs By Stuart Cahill, Neal Hamberg, And Matt Stone Reunions in late May drew upwards of 1,000 alumni and their families and gave participants a chance to hear more than two dozen HBS faculty present their latest research during a day of classroom sessions.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Across HBS Generations
Every autumn, more than 1,000 alumni and their guests visit HBS for class reunions. They return for the academic and social events, of course, and to reconnect with classmates. But there is another powerful pull as well — something to do with nostalgia and going back... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
(MBA 1994) "For a pioneering intermediary like Gazelle, there are in principle two ways (not mutually exclusive) to sustain its advantage over the late but numerous entrants. One is to create network effects by moving to a marketplace... View Details
Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
of Washington, D.C., also offered considerable support. “We’re interested in talking to anybody who is trying to create a similar program in their community,” says Levy. “The HBS network was invaluable when it came to organizing our own... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Recent HBS Alumni Events Around the World 1 Daniel Peng, Wendy Lim, and Jackie Valentine (all MBA 2017) with Derrick Hsu and Anish Nahar (MBA 2017) at the Young Alumni Networking Reception held in March at the Barbarossa Lounge in San... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
history. For two days in late May, representatives from the School’s extensive network of alumni clubs convened on campus to exchange ideas, participate in case discussions with faculty, and learn about AlumniMagnet, a new... View Details