Publications

Educators

July – August 2010
Article

Vision Statement: Mapping the Social Internet

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Tommy McCall

Fresh data on internet user behaviors around the globe show an East-West divide. View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet

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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

geo-economic competition? Founded in 2025, the Green Industrial Strategy Project addresses this pressing question by supporting the theoretical, empirical, and practical study of green industrial strategy through collaborations involving... View Details

09 Aug 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before

taking breaks help or hinder getting things done? The researchers also address questions you've likely never considered, such as how weather affects productivity and why collaboration may make you less able to solve problems. Hiding From... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

collaborative efforts with other employers. They also can influence the way employees think about their health and health care. Employers can and should take a more active role in the care provided to their employees. Employers can... View Details

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Protect HBS | Information Technology

Protect HBS There are many ways you can protect Harvard Business School information and data. The following will help you think through the best ways to do that, based on the types of information you dealing with. Cloud Storage A great way to View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”

2019, draws on a cross-sector collaboration between residents, government, nonprofits, and the business community to coordinate action on the city’s initiatives. “Homelessness is a harsh reality in Albuquerque,” says Keller. “We’re... View Details

Keywords: homelessness

15 Nov 2016
News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Collaboration between... View Details

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Ken Peterson | About

Ken Peterson Bio In his role, Ken collaborates with colleagues across the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and beyond, supporting the needs of faculty, students, alumni, and researchers. A focus for his View Details

June 2024
Article

The Monitoring Role of Social Media

By: Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli

In this study, we examine whether social media activity can reduce corporate misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of 3G mobile broadband access across the United States to identify exogenous increases in social media activity and test whether access to 3G... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Twitter; Corporate Accountability; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks

May–June 2019
Article

U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social Networks

By: Monic Sun, Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu

We explore how people balance their needs to belong and to be different from their friends by studying their choices of a virtual-house wall color on a leading Chinese social-networking site. The setting enables us to randomize both the popular color and the adoption... View Details

Keywords: Conformity; Normative Social Influence; Social Networks; Field Experiment; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Attitudes; Social Media

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February 2015
Article

'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology

By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosure among innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of... View Details

Keywords: Open Innovation; Cumulative Innovation; Incentives; Search; Disclosure And Access; Knowledge Sharing; Motivation and Incentives; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni Take Cold Calls in New York City

Alumni gathered in New York City in November for a dynamic case discussion — a special benefit for members of the HBS Fund Investors Society. John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS, joined alumni for a reception and then led... View Details

16 Sep 2016
News

Gaining Ground on ALS

If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the money you raised may be helping to fund a first-of-its kind clinical collaboration between a nonprofit patient/disease advocacy organization and... View Details

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

innovation, they sometimes go into a victim routine. "They say, 'Oh, they don't listen to me. I don't have a seat at the table. When I try they tell me to get out of here, so I regress to my role as a little bureaucratic turtle guy who throws orders at them.' It... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

August 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Background Note

Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network

By: William R. Kerr and Daniel J. Isenberg

Diaspora networks (DNs) are an important resource for global entrepreneurs. Discusses several features of DNs, combining both academic and practitioner perspectives. Describes the history and prevalence of DNs in many ethnicities, documents the broad resources DNs can... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Markets and Industries; Social and Collaborative Networks

Educators

12 Nov 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Martin Mandorff; Retail; Travel; Transportation; Service

August 2018
Article

Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain

By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile

How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds... View Details

Keywords: Helping; Rhythm; Prosocial Behavior; External Team Leadership; Social Construction; Time; Qualitative Methods; Field Research; Groups and Teams; Projects; Behavior; Leadership; Social and Collaborative Networks

2016
Book

Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation

By: Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhani

The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process, which emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Transformation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention