Limits To Network Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

When electronic cigarettes first appeared a little over a decade ago, they were hailed by many as a godsend: a tool to help smokers quit while mitigating the most harmful effects of tobacco. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

this topic so fascinating in part because it is so accessible—everybody understands the concept of doing a good job so you can build a good reputation—and yet so many of the consequences of career concerns remain unexplored. Q: Why is evaluating career concerns so... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsArtisan Entertainment Inc. Harvard Business School Case 207-067 Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

offerings and consumer needs has been challenging the effectiveness of both mechanisms. Q: What kinds of consumer habits does consumer empowerment work against? A: Consumers typically tend to adopt ritual... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

To equip students to effectively work in and lead these teams, FIELD begins with a five-week foundations module, in which students undertake a series of workshops on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

rates of skilled immigration have used the phrase "national suicide" to describe the limited admissions of skilled workers compared to low-skilled workers in the United States.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

external confidence. Negative attention and bad press lead to fewer and less loyal fans and to declining external resources; losing teams get less favorable deals; and the View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

course, if you're not separate at all, you can't effect change, either. People in the Internet age have to be collabronauts within their own company. That is, they have to be... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

development due to corrupt business practices? Will it be able to enact more effective reforms? Jones: The latest Corruptions Perceptions Index ranks Turkey as 78 out of 180... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

preventing managers from wasting or misallocating free cash flow and deters related parties, including host governments, from trying to appropriate it. But is this always effective in preventing such... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

historical background, Retsinas said that prior to the Depression, people who wanted to buy a home were typically required to make a 50 percent down payment. They were issued a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

these social leaders viewed those advantages as a vehicle for contributing to solutions of certain social problems. According to Juan Carr, founder of the Solidarity Network... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

fabric of globalized production that comes in a period of conflict. We're betting, and hoping of course, that the conflict remains narrowly focused on breaking the terrorist networks and doesn't turn into a wider war. If it were View Details