Computer Networks - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

gold-medal hockey team. Twelve major multinationals, including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, John Hancock, Omega timepieces, Visa, Samsung, and Lenovo, the Chinese computer manufacturer, have paid more than $50 million each over a four-year... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation, whereas it is shifted towards the marketplace for long-tail products. We thus provide a theory of which products an intermediary should offer in each... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

say, a cloud computing company. "I think the [venture philanthropy] model really does work," he said. "It's long term and makes it hard to see short-term results. But we can show mounting evidence that when you put in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

comparing the sales of almost 700 albums as reported by Nielsen SoundScan. Oberholzer and Strumpf concluded that there was almost no relationship between the two. How could this be? The researchers believe that most downloading is done over peer-to-peer View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

11 Dec 2012
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and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses Authors:Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

West. Another speaker used appointment diaries of prominent political figures as a new way to highlight networks and relationships, and how they change over time. A third paper used address books to trace the longevity of firms in 20th... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a real-world market investment View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

22 Aug 2011
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Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

strength. Through a 10-day field experiment involving over 500 high-powered computer programmers, the researchers sought to determine just how employees would respond to working in environments somewhat customized to how they like to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

with the directions to our place." Then he paused and said, "That sounds pretty old-fashioned, doesn't it?" It's possible that, along with me, he is beginning to feel out of date. The irony is that he is the retired CEO of one of the largest companies... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Counterfactual simulations of our structural model show large gains from screening potential hires via psychometric measurement and training to improve managerial practices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55871 Advancing View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

didn't use computers himself and didn't see the value in the strategy. So a group of self-starters went ahead and designed a small, low-risk e-commerce pilot anyway. It tested well, the CEO was at last impressed, and the project moved... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

true cluster in Costa Rica will take decades to complete, but I'm confident that it will be sustainable because the country offers some unique qualities that are a source of competitive advantage — among them, the highest computer usage... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

including emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil. This list will continue to grow. A by-product of the intertwining of globalization and technology enabled networks is that events are no longer isolated, the impact of which was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks of tasks. Transactions,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Aug 2011
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that the most popular rule is rational choice; it is used in about half the cases. To participate in the competitions, researchers are asked to email the organizers models (implemented in computer programs) that read the incentive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

Ventures, Kleiner-Perkins, and others. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806198 DVD War Harvard Business School Case 706-504 In 2006, the DVD was the most popular storage medium in the entertainment and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

described herein, we provide Eigenfactor rankings for 84,808 disambiguated authors of 240,804 papers in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a pre- and post-print archive devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

sponsored by Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-054 AltSchool: School Reimagined Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2011
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computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne