social media - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

all sorts of elements of the digital marketplace that our existing legal frameworks are not particularly well-suited to deal with.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media editor for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

social media sites like Facebook,” Lin says. The founders asked themselves how they might build the app if they had been designing for these users from the start. “We realized that it would look pretty... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

own or use a complex shipping route that runs from the United States to Panama and then Jamaica before arriving in Havana to avoid sanctions—a trip that can take between four and six weeks. Dorian Carbonell Fernández, a high-profile hair stylist with a massive View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

is of serious concern to the manager(s) at OppenheimerFunds as well as to other investors. This leads a media turnaround firm to contact OppenheimerFunds and other large Take-Two shareholders with the intention of ousting the company's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Michael Maples

has nearly 300 million monthly users and has become a major social media platform.) If this sounds a bit esoteric and challenging, Maples agrees. “The venture business, like the startup business, is... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Up from the Ashes

Destruction SCHUMPETER: Ambivalent about Harvard, uneasy about America, he wondered, “Why am I always so out of sympathy with my milieu?” COURTESY HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES, HUGB S276.90 In his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

website; putting their firm’s logo/board member on your website Invitations to marketing and sales events Tapping their social media presence for sharing news and events Beyond the basics: Investors look at... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

record labels are increasingly experimenting with DRM-less music sales, p2p is superior in this respect. In contrast, metadata (data about data—the indexing data contained in media files such as artist or album name) is superior on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

populations, one expects such attitudes to be sacrosanct and nearly inalterable, perhaps for generations to come. On the other hand, even these attitudes may be informed by social cues that interpret violence in different ways and that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

director and the quality of the prior LBO experience. This effect is robust to the most likely alternative explanations and supports the idea that directors and social networks play an influential role in change-of-control transactions.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

"is like any gas that is compressed; it gets hotter." Its tribes overlap socially and professionally based on work discipline (software engineers, for example), organizational affiliation (Hewlett-Packard), or background... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

generating a brand book for Israel that suggested a guiding brand position of “creative energy”; inviting social media influencers to partake in trips focused on lifestyle interests; generating appealing,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Her objective of working with retailers known for carrying high-quality, premium-priced merchandise probably owed something to the social aspiration that drove her. Her interest in such stores was also strategic. Estée suspected that her... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

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Commencement 2016 Address | About

pay attention to him. He listens far more than he talks. This kind of personal humility is becoming all-too-rare, as social media breeds an attitude of “ look at me!” Now, I have nothing against posting... View Details

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 effects and demand-side learning... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

Privado y las Responsabilidades Públicas: El Rol de las Soluciones Comerciales en la Temática Social Authors:Michael Chu Publication:Chap. 1 in Negocios Inclusivos y Creación de Empleo. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

the payoffs are, and then the probability of each of the payoffs. But in this case, you talked about the information asymmetry, and it's very clear in the social media context, the fear of missing out... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you approach problems and take you to... View Details

07 Apr 2021
News

Road Work

conceptually I do not want it to be about me. In fact, there's not even a picture of me without a helmet on right now, nor is my name mentioned yet because I'm still grasping with how much I want to expose myself, quite frankly. But I want this to be what I... View Details

11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address market should discourage subdividing IP address blocks more than necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the... View Details