Direct Network Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

can be attributed to topics shifting toward three domains: the stock market, salacious content, and celebrities. Meanwhile, relative to nonparticipants, participants' content quality increases after the program takes effect. We also find that the program View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

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16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

countries that were known as tech leaders. The researchers also found that the effect of nonstop flights on innovation outcomes was stronger for routes with shorter north-south distances, which cross over less longitudinal distance. Some... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

tolerance for risk and responsibility, Shruti returned to India and jumped into entrepreneurship “head first, feet next.” With a startup team, she began fine-tuning plans to launch a digital platform to help local travel agents maximize their View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

25 Jan 2010
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A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist much more effectively than they could before. Those publications integrate macroeconomics with what we know about business and markets, often in the very same articles. Without... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

potential projects Examine how capital markets work and how they affect your business Develop a financial intuition that will give you the confidence to make effective decisions in your career and life Who Will Benefit Early and... View Details

26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

from non-experts or not at all. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47824 August 2014 Administrative Science Quarterly The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: Bringing Systematic Investment to Philanthropy

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Alexander Bischoff and Sophia Pan

Melissa Berman, CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), evaluated her client’s philanthropy project and its mediocre performance. RPA was a segment of the Rockefeller Family Office’s Philanthropy Department, becoming an independent charity in 2002. Consistently... View Details

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11 Apr 2012
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The High Risks of Short-Term Management

Companies that manage for short-term gain rather than long-term growth have been blamed for everything from popularizing celebrity CEOs to causing a significant chunk of the current financial crisis. Now new research findings suggest that short-termism might have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators. Workers in India’s Anganwadi... View Details

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

investor is the first investor to commit capital to a new fund. Anchor investors can have an important influence on a fund’s ability to raise meaningful amounts of capital; our interviews suggest that an early endorsement by a respected investor has a catalytic halo... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

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01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

there was zero budget to promote awareness of the effort and encourage completion of its online survey. “Thanks to YALP, we were able to have the support and engagement of many other networks in the community.” Educational excellence and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

developed the relevant capabilities, but the formation of a new set of core activities is still inhibited. Taking a micro-perspective, the paper argues that there are situations where direct top-down interventions are necessary. Termed as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

and advanced systems. Launched by MIT, The Engine bridges the gap between discovery and commercialization by empowering disruptive technologies with the long-term capital, knowledge, network connections, and the specialized equipment and... View Details

14 Jun 2022
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Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

and Hillel to bringing back alumni for speaking and networking opportunities to connecting with prospective students alongside the admissions team, we recognize the strengthening effect that interactions... View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to... View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

delivery, and patient value: Access a network of health care institutions and facilities to enhance quality and coordination of care Leverage partnerships and implement outcome measurement strategies to improve care for complicated... View Details

18 Nov 2015
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Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

options), and in terms of how CEO performance is measured. THE NETWORK EFFECT Gallani hypothesized two possible culprits for the isomorphism. The first was the issue of interlocking directorates. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting

27 Oct 2002
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Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

market specialists as well as territorial generalists; telesales and telemarketing; service specialists; distributors; dealers; value-added integrators, resellers and packagers; wholesalers; retailers; direct mail; and e-commerce. Procter... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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