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    Jacqueline Ng Lane

    Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a co-Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. She... View Details

    • 19 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

    information. Social networking on Facebook would be of little value if users provided no personal information, and digital assistants such as Apple's Siri require access to consumers' location, contact lists, and calendar to be helpful. A... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Digital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers

    By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
    The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many thought it would, on the model of direct marketing. That model anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interactive Communication; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web
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    • March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    WallStreetBets: Democratizing Retail Investing

    By: Joseph Pacelli and Alexis Lefort
    In summer 2024, Jaime Rogozinski anticipated the launch of a day-trading eSports event, a vision he had nurtured for years. Rogozinski, the founder of the influential subreddit WallStreetBets (WSB), created the forum in 2012 as a space for retail traders to explore... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Emerging Markets; Market Participation; Financial Strategy; Lawsuits and Litigation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • Profile

    Lara Hodgson

    Lara O’Connor Hodgson thought she’d found the entrepreneurial dream while running Nourish, the successful startup she launched in 2009. But it was Nourish’s very success that triggered Hodgson’s next and even more successful venture, NOWaccount View Details
    • 16 Dec 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: December 16, 2008

    http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208083 Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network Harvard Business School Case 509-012 May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a social View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 26

    facilitating social comparison among agents. Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-008.pdf... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Hidden Alpha

    By: Manuel Amman, Alexander Cochardt, Lauren Cohen and Stephan Heller
    This paper documents the central role of hidden connections between fund managers and firm officers in financial markets, drawing on an extensive dataset of over 100 thousand manually identified Facebook profiles and their 35 million Facebook friends. Our findings... View Details
    Keywords: Returns; Investment Return; Networks
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    • 14 Mar 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax

    Keywords: by Dina Pomeranz
    • 09 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 9, 2016

    Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Jun 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: June 29

    crisis, in contrast, fared less satisfactorily abroad. Second, multinationals that engaged in activities with vertical production linkages or stronger financial constraints exhibited particularly better responses compared to local firms. Finally, being part of a larger... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    The Panama Canal

    The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy.  It makes three general arguments.  First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

    • Teaching Interest

    Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation

    By: John D. Macomber

    This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School.  It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week.  SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details

    Keywords: Resilience; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Fire Protection; Insurance Risk Exposure; Hedge Fund; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Climate Change; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Transportation Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Africa; Latin America
    • 25 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 25

    Network Effects Authors:Hanna W. Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally prefer a platform-limiting choice. We show that platforms that offer a... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • June 2006 (Revised September 2006)
    • Case

    Euronext.liffe and the Over-the-Counter Derivatives Market (A)

    Euronext.liffe, a derivatives trading exchange, had just finished rolling out three new services targeted at the over-the-counter (OTC) market in 2004. The services offered automated confirmation and clearing for OTC equity derivatives. Yet, developments in the... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Product Positioning; Competition; Financial Markets; Network Effects; Cooperation
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    • 24 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 24, 2009

    authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage: sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers greater capacity, but View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 08 Jul 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
    • 01 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1

    opportunistic low-ball offers.   Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect coordination among profit centers. The... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Business Economics - Doctoral

    of Advanced International Studies Advisors: Pol Antras , Edward Glaeser , and Gabriel Kriendler Francesca Bastianello, 2022 The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Advisors: John Campbell , Andrei Shleifer , Jeremy Stein , and Samuel G. Hanson Frank Pinter,... View Details
    • Program

    Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

    effective organizational transformation to drive impact Build a governance system that enables mission performance Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with... View Details