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July 13, 2023
Article

Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu

Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history. One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already popular social media platform Instagram, also owned by Meta—a feature... View Details

Keywords: Decentralization; Twitter; Facebook; Instagram; Crypto Economy; Blockchain; Network; Industrial Organization; Competition; Open Innovation; Open Platforms; Open Source Innovation; Social Networks; Social Media; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry

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07 Nov 2014
News

The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

one-stop destination for women worldwide. To get there, we are focused on scaling user growth by bolstering our technological tools and community engagement. Ultimately, by having users submit, interact with, and voice their opinion on... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

30 Jan 2018
News

Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

Coleman MBA 2010), managing director and chief administrative officer for alternatives and institution at Invesco and board member of the National Monuments Foundation Erik Pickering (MBA 1999), president of Tracers Information... View Details

23 Sep 2020
News

HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

member of our community to thrive.” The plan was crafted by a 25-member task force made of HBS faculty, staff, students, and alumni, and co-chaired by Chief Information Officer Ron Chandler, Senior Associate... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Research Brief: Hear Me Out

Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew It’s usually not hard to spot the extroverts in the office—or anywhere else. The butterflies of any social gathering, extroverts tend to restore their energy levels by being around other people. But for all their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

February 2014
Technical Note

Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kerry Herman and Christine Snively

Mobile broadband carriers provide network access to the Internet for a range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

01 Dec 2000
News

The Birds and Bees in China

The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

01 Mar 2008
News

India is more Transparent

China, can I believe the financial information in a company’s annual report? “Not really, I say. The annual report does not serve the purpose it does in market economies, that is, to communicate reliable... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

01 Jun 2007
News

A Classics Enterprise

Robert Strassler (MBA ’61), a self-described “scholar without credentials,” worked for seven years on his own dime to produce an unlikely 1996 bestseller: The Landmark Thucydides, a reader-friendly version of the Greek philosopher’s famously dense and convoluted... View Details

Keywords: ancient Greece; Information; Information

25 Apr 2014
News

Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager

role that is part ambassador, part recruiter. “I will pay attention to job opportunities in the Greater China area,” he says, “and pass the information along to the club members and also coordinate when people from China come to campus,... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Better than Cash

greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; CAP; HBS; nonprofits; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
Case

Prodigy Services Company (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Top executives of Prodigy Services Co. must decide how to respond when publicly accused of allowing anti-Semitic messages to be posted on the electronic bulletin boards of the company's interactive computer service. Can they defend free expression while at the same... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Communication Intention and Meaning; Information Technology; Decision Making; Law; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry

October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
Technical Note

5G Wireless Technology, 2019

By: David B. Yoffie, Roneal Desai and Lili Ouyang

This Note explores the technology and economics of emerging 5G networks. View Details

Keywords: Technology Change; Information Technology; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Communications Industry

November 1990 (Revised May 1994)
Case

Microsoft Corp.: Office Business Unit

By: Marco Iansiti

Describes the development of a new word processing software package, Word for Windows. The major focus is how the development process should be improved to reduce schedule slips and cost overruns. Some of the issues raised are: the use of schedules in managing... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Cost Management; Business or Company Management; Time Management; Product Development; Programs; Projects; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry