Computer Networks - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

examples the fact that few people pay to have their name not listed in the phone book and the popularity of "free" computers—where consumers get a computer in exchange for giving out personal information, agreeing to view ads,... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

created by the swift expansion of local and wide area corporate computer networks (LANS and WANs) and the privatized Internet brought a second Japanese challenge in the early 1990s. Critical here was the... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

acoustics, network management, customer service, and so on. Western Union had none of these skills. Its business did not need to solve these problems. It was on the wrong side of asymmetries. Western Union couldn't suddenly become a... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael Luca. That may be about to change. Thanks to the Internet, mobile apps, and a wide range of useful programs online, residents add to the pool of information with every keystroke they make on their View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

research, you identified 209 platform failures between 1995 and 2015 and about 45 successful firms for the same period. What are drivers of success? Yoffie: The most important driver of success is network effects. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated theories of competition in economics, the cooperative teamwork... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

Business is about making money, not measuring macho. The scrap heap of business disasters is littered with managers whose ego drive overwhelmed good business sense. Founder and former chief executive Ray Noorda had a wonderful business in View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next e-Wave." The current shift on the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

participate with you on your critical problems. Of course, the Internet and the massive reduction in communication and computation costs have made accessing external innovators a much easier task than what was possible 10 or 15 years ago.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

currently tiny efforts to grow. As a result, the efforts of Bpeace (Business Council for Peace), a nonprofit network of business professionals, to encourage entrepreneurs in Afghanistan and other conflict-ridden regions, will benefit, as... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

the Xerox business plans had proposed building document-management systems for mainframe computers rather than for networked personal computers (which were rapidly replacing... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

arrival rate into a congested airport; in an AFP, the FAA uses the same approach to adjust the amount of traffic flying into congested airspace. These two tools account for approximately 30 percent of all air transportation delays, according to the researchers. “If you... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

broadcasters pay a premium for licensing rights. In terms of affiliate fees, nine out of ten of the most expensive cable networks per viewer carry high-engagement sports content, with ESPN, the NFL Network, and the MLB View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

while offering increased payments to good-type agents. I estimate that a leading affiliate network could have invoked an optimal payment delay to eliminate 71% of fraud without decreasing profit. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

followed by people who are 100 miles away, and so forth in concentric circles. My research on ethnic networks suggests this channel facilitates faster knowledge transfer and faster adoption of foreign technologies. For example, if the... View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Computer; Computer

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

paper we draw on two of the most important historical episodes in the history of the computing industry, the introduction of the PC and of the browser, to develop a third hypothesis. Both IBM and Microsoft, having been extremely... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51876 Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr Abstract—Technological progress builds upon... View Details