Information Networks - Publications - Faculty & Research

2018
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Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell

We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP), and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an underfunded second mover in... View Details

Keywords: Platform Design; Betting; Digital Platforms; Design; Network Effects; Business Model; Competition; Cooperation; Market Entry and Exit

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Green Business: beginner's resources and toolkit

and Growing a Green and Clean Business: ebook available at Harvard. Ecosummit: A green business network that provides talks from green business related conferences. SoundCloud:... View Details

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Georges F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Note 608-077 Introduces students to the concepts covered in the Managing in the Information Age module on Function IT. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608077 Managing in the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2019
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Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

Harvard’s vast network of leaders and founders.” All of the students bring strong technical backgrounds to the program—from fields including computer science, aerospace, health care, robotics, and the military—as well as experience in... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

01 Sep 2005
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GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard

Immelt In June, Class Day speaker Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA ’82), chairman and CEO of General Electric, sent 878 MBA graduates off into the world with a pep talk in which he cited competitiveness and creativity as keys to business success. Immelt also dispensed lots of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

to increase investment in its "off eBay" strategy; how to allocate investments between the two sides of its payment network (i.e., consumers and merchants); which consumer segments to target (e.g., existing PayPal account... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2000
News

Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

America's TV networks prepared to broadcast the inspector's decision, Reich met with a roomful of lawyers. They strongly advised Reich that overturning the decision would endanger his nascent relations with the inspectors. Reich... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

06 Jun 2012
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Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization and the demands of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

network that has a ton of experience and expertise and value to add. There’s a lot of willingness to tap into that network and leverage it. That’s kind of the point of having access to this community. The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

of business in Africa.” That thought led to the launch of Young African MBAs (YAM). “What started off as a small networking group quickly grew to a registered organization with over 2,000 members,” says Igun, who was born in Nigeria and... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

January 2011 (Revised April 2024)
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Triangulate (A)

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Lauren Barley

In October 2010, Triangulate's founder/CEO must determine what product features to develop and what marketing programs to pursue in order to boost the odds of successfully raising another venture capital round for his nine month-old Facebook dating application. The... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Product Launch; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web

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January 2004 (Revised October 2006)
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Electronic Arts in Online Gaming

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Justin Wong

Electronic Arts (EA), the world's largest independent video-game publisher, must decide whether to support Microsoft's initiatives in online gaming. Historically, EA has been platform-agnostic, releasing versions of its titles for all major console platforms. However,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Policy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Revenue; Segmentation; Sales; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Electronics Industry

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04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

in the end by showing employees that it is okay to cheat." Sairam Inumella asserts, "New legislation is not a solution to this 'problem' ... . Maybe this copycat competition will help the networks move toward strategies that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

Summing Up What Isn't Off Limits When it Comes to Transparency? The discussion of this month's column on corporate transparency to employees made it clear that we have reached a point at which disclosure of pay information in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jan 2024
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective

guidelines. The Emerson Collective Recruiting Process Emerson Collective connects with prospective candidates by posting internship opportunities in 12twenty, hosting an informational session in January, and View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e., better precision of across-firm information) than to changes in information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

In 1998, Internet advertising revenue passed the $1 billion mark, more than double its 1997 level. Indeed, although the Internet entered the media fray barely four years ago, its revenues from national advertisers already surpass those of two rival media categories,... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

March 2004 (Revised June 2004)
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Blackout: August 14, 2003

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ryland Matthew Willis

On August 14, 2003, an electricity blackout cascaded throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. Describes the structure, technology, and economics of the electric utility industry and how gradual deregulation beginning in the 1970s placed unprecedented, and... View Details