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  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

individual contracts with each town or city they serve, after bidding against other cable providers for the chance to do so. They then, in turn, receive fees from broadcasters to be included in their View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

School Note 808-021 Explores the core issues involved in compensating family employees in a family business. Explains family interests and other factors that shape family employee compensation practices. Distinguishes between achieving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have network effects, with the potential for a winner-take-all or winner-take-most outcome. 2)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

  Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2025
  • Blog Post

Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

professors, listen to classmates with expertise in so many different industries share perspectives, and then apply that knowledge directly to test my hypothesis. I was given the resources View Details
  • August 2022
  • Case

SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

out, even as a part of the solution, I would have more personal fulfillment.” Building a network to build bridges To make her goals a reality, Nneka focused on building... View Details
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

to lead to improvements in dealing with the problem of economic benchmarking. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2517496 The Decoupling Effect of Digital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

"Holacracy in its form of each individual taking responsibility for their own self-management is absolutely necessary, however it is the responsibility of 'managers ' to ensure effectiveness of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 09 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

contractors, they enjoy a broader social network from which to draw referrals than most permanent employees. In the film industry—where most hiring is done based on a production manager's previous experience... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology
  • 05 Oct 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

H. Duell, Commission of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899 (early in Gordon’s “special century”). What I believe, based on personal homework, is limited to just a few things: (1) there is economic growth and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Jason A. Kilar

network and cable TV. But to date, there hasn’t been a clear path for most of these talented creators to build sustainable, enduring businesses on the basis of their video... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

relationship with them is important." Hayley Blunden That’s a problem, since rubbing powerful colleagues the wrong way could impact “every aspect of one’s career, from opportunities for promotion to abilities View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

Eisenmann Periodical:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract To exploit first-mover advantages, pioneers may be motivated to amass customers before rivals enter the market. Likewise, when they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

Hong Luo Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

patent typically contains each inventor's hometown and employer, making it possible to reconstruct work histories and co-authorship networks for numerous individuals." Draining Detroit Initially, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

"reasonableness" review. Second, Delaware courts should apply basic game theory to identify the deterrent effect of match rights and new economy asset lockups. And third, Delaware courts should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne