Technology Networks - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Online AI Course | HBS Online

organization and highlight its benefits and considerations 6-7 hrs Module 3 Understand network and learning effects’ impact on business strategy and how they can be used to create value. Explore ethical considerations related to AI and... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Case Study: On the Table

vans because back in the 1960s and ’70s—and still now—there was no way to reach the consumer who shopped at mom-and-pop stores. Today their distribution networks are formidable barriers to entry for most competitors in their segments.... View Details

21 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

approach, spearheading efforts to cut the rising costs of programming at the network by directing staff members to choose less expensive content and rely less on pricey A-list actors. Horn’s strategy paid off: By 2011, under his... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education

Career Coach

Wendi Zhang

Wendi partners with MBA students and alumni to meet them where they are in their career journey, and 1) if undecided - helps them get clarity, 2) if decided - coaches them in taking the next steps to reach the next goal post(s), and 3) upon reaching the next goal -... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship

the technology sector have played a pivotal role in my personal and professional growth. The network at HBS is unmatched, providing me with invaluable knowledge and resources that have set me on a path of... View Details

29 Apr 2021
News

Equal Partner

for food manufacturers, founded by Zuleyka Strasner, who is a trans Black and Latinx woman, and Hemster, which connects users to on-demand services provided by an Uber-style network of tailors from marginalized communities, founded by... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

physically big enough. They have to include everybody on this planet working together to address the issues that we're facing.” Continually build your network. Many guests stressed the need to build a network of people working on climate.... View Details

Web

Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge

medium-sized enterprises in the US and Canada who were surveyed on the Alignable networking platform in late March. The answers, gathered just before the US government announced tariffs on imports from countries worldwide, illustrate how... View Details

Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Congratulations to the 2020 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Finalists Margot... View Details

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2025
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

ClimateCAP is an initiative manage by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business whose mission is to prepare business leaders to understand and respond to the climate challenge. They provide learning resources for MBA students interested in the intersection of business... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success

Mustard Mills. The Plochman recipe for stone-ground mustard, for example, hasn't changed much in the last one hundred years, but the technology involved in making it demonstrates 21st-century expertise. "Things happen much more quickly,"... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Web

Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

relationship between the business and its customers. @hoc’s Persistent Communications technology creates a continuous Channel of communication between a company and its customers. Birchbox Hayley Barna , MBA 2010 Katia Ververis , MBA 2010... View Details

18 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

services, non-profits, or a business, so I took advantage of the HBS Leadership Fellows Program. The program offered me the unique opportunity to work in government through the MBTA at a time when they were looking to try something new and innovative and use View Details

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These programs involve a number of different... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
Case

Slanket: Responding to Snuggie's Market Entry

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

How does a pioneer in a new product category deal with the runaway success of a follower? Can search engine marketing and social media help? In 2008 Slanket CEO, Gary Clegg, found that his product, a blanket with sleeves, had been eclipsed by The Snuggie, another... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web

Citation

Educators

Purchase

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

resulted over time in one of the most vibrant and highly regarded alumni networks anywhere. Aside from their sheer volume (at present, a total of 300 pages per issue) and scope (current copy provided by 853 class and section... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

opportunities. And while oil prices continue to rise and fall, energy services firms are seeing rapid growth—especially those firms that provide services to both traditional and emerging clean technology energy sectors. When approaching... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Publications