Network Externalities - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

the company has built over time, which is largely embedded in its software code libraries. This base is critical to internal innovation, as it makes product development more efficient and powerful. Additionally, it spawns external... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

mobilized to accomplish. Reassess available resources. The relaunch is a time to reexamine information, budgetary resources, and networks that will help the team advance its goals. Understand members’ constraints. A relaunch is an ideal... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement with what Secretary of War Henry Stimson described as... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

disciplined look beyond the usual suspects to figure out who might really matter: potential and actual parties, internal and external players, principals and agents, decision makers and influencers, allies and blockers, and high- and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

investing sector and its importance and viability. Highlights What Is Sustainable Investing? Can We Do Well by Doing Good? Introduction: Omidyar Network Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction to Sustainable Investing Incumbent Players... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

company takes that create unintended consequences for others—can be good or bad. An example of a positive externality is reduced healthcare costs for everyone when employees are required to get COVID-19 vaccines. A negative View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

start; landing stretch assignments; and building a network of developmental relationships. In framing each of these four challenges from the point of view of the emerging leader, I hope to underscore my belief that management, especially... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

postmortem, Eisenmann recommends that entrepreneurs seek honest feedback from as many people involved in the venture as possible. This helps entrepreneurs close any memory gaps and challenge the human tendency to blame external factors.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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HBS - The year in Review

size of discussion groups for better engagement, finding new ways for participants to network and socialize virtually, and increasing virtual access to case protagonists. Post-program surveys revealed very strong satisfaction scores.... View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

hrs Module 2 Driving Change at Scale: Moving Beyond the Firm Learn what purpose-driven firms are, the "Wheel of Change," and why businesses must act to solve large global issues, such as climate change and income inequality. Highlights Prisoner's Dilemma Cooperating... View Details

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

assemble high quality local camera crews and co-ordinate with interviewees, we need a local support base. We have made particular use of Harvard Business School’s network of global research centers . We have also benefitted from the... View Details

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

of the innovation. Some of them question the value of the COVID-19 vaccine and plan to take a wait-and-see approach. Others may have concerns about immunizations in general, or even outright opposition to vaccines and government efforts to facilitate them. Their... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

31 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Transitioning From the Military to Business School

and squeeze more out of the HBS experience than I otherwise could have. What has been the hardest part about the transition? For me, one of the most difficult parts of transitioning from the military to HBS was learning to rely on internal rather than View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

events. However, you may visit the HBS Online Business Insights Blog and HBS Online Facebook page for information about upcoming conferences and webinars featuring faculty, or join the HBS Online Community to build your network and... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

explicit goal of creating social value, but they have to mobilize resources from external sources. Leadership style. "For good governance you need continuity," said Reficco. "You need some degree of overlap between... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

will operate, recognizing that’s decades not quarters. This requires considering our current and future customers, communities, employees, and shareholders—not just the people we are working with today. The externalities of... View Details

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