Limits To Network Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

toward other interests. Staying on mission and building an effective organization to carry out the mission requires a clear strategic focus and a well-developed strategy backed by well-aligned operations.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

effect and sap those good feelings. Outside of professional networking, it’s best to limit social browsing time to 30 minutes a day, Brooks and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

01 Jun 2002
News

HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades

hours by AFAA members seeking to call attention to the plight of homeless veterans and to raise funds for a local shelter that assists them. “We thought this would be an View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded to changes in banking competition. We also distinguish the relative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

Industry Leaders The business of sports is a business that Laitsas loves, and he knows there are other passionate professionals ready to make their mark on the industry. There are a limited number of roles... View Details

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Cookie Information | HBS Online

how visitors use our Websites, such as which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive error messages from web pages. Advertising Cookies : These cookies are used to deliver advertising more... View Details

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

In a world devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) has been able to effectively combat the disease without ever imposing a full lockdown of its economy. How did the country... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies, University of Iowa; Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution; Carr Center Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Examining ways View Details

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

effectively to voters? A: While around a fifth of U.S. adults are political partisans, about half don't participate. If citizens think their vote will not matter, see no important differences among the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Fast Answer

Companies: Executive and board member prior experience

background, it tends to denote firms that may value that experience perhaps a bit more. You can add an additional layer to enhance your networking by including a search for HBS... View Details

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

century, the main objective of most risk management policies—from limited liability to bankruptcy law to a fixed exchange rate—was to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

effects on citation rates. Our findings suggest that subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that illuminate the connections between their findings... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Student-Profile

Fanele Mashwama

distributive justice. “The policy space is a space where we can, and should, put our ethical convictions into practice,” he says. After graduation, Fanele spent two years with McKinsey & Company before returning to Harvard for a... View Details

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

course to two, and restructured the focus to address the unique challenges and opportunities of this moment in time. Limited to first-year MBAs,... View Details

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

goods for sale on any one site can be distributed to all the other sites in our network for bidding. So, as a marketplace operator, you get your own marketplace, you get your own brand. But you also get the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

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Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership - Alumni

Careers Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership Careers Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership The HBS Board Diversity Network connects HBS alumni from underrepresented groups with corporate board opportunities by: Creating... View Details

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

that in countries with higher GDP growth leverage is correlated with less corporate financial fragility. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) this paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are systemically important—idiosyncratic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

who simultaneously identify with multiple brands they represent to customers, we examine the relationships among identity conflict and enhancement, on the one hand, and objective sales performance, on the other. We find independent View Details