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- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
health of the ecosystem that underlies the modern economy. Frank Nagle is a professor at Harvard Business School and co-director of the Census II project. View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness
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by Frank Nagle
- 04 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons
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by Frank Nagle
- 21 Jul 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?
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by Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
- 19 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Innovating Without Information Constraints: Organizations, Communities, and Innovation When Information Costs Approach Zero
- 2013
- Book
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability
By: John Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other...
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Ehrenfeld, John, and Andrew J. Hoffman. Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability. Stanford University Press, 2013. (Finalist for the 2014 Best Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management.)
- Web
Mary Frank Presence 1985-1986 | About
States with her family in 1940. She studied with artists Hans Hoffman and Max Beckmann. Frank is a sculptor, painter, photographer, and ceramic...
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- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
benefits to not hyper-focusing and having a broader set of knowledge and experience,” Nagle says. Who is the master now? They discovered that when it comes to innovation,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
figure. Without open source software and their ubiquitous code-creation networks, firms would pay an estimated 3.5 times more to build the software and platforms that run their businesses, or roughly $8.8...
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- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
they forge relationships with user groups. Danielle Kost: How can companies engage user communities more effectively? What advantages can they provide a firm? Frank Nagle and...
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by Danielle Kost
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
contributions to society, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Frank Nagle. Doing so will encourage companies to spend more time working to make the world a better place, he says. Nagle points to...
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by Lane Lambert
- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
conclusion—professional social networks “may have potential benefits to companies, and not only to the individual,” says Frank Nagle, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “What we’re trying to...
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by Ben Rand
- July–August 2018
- Article
Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods
By: Frank Nagle
As the economy becomes more information based, firms are increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by...
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Open Source Distribution;
Applications and Software;
Competitive Strategy;
Learning;
Competitive Advantage
Nagle, Frank. "Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods." Organization Science 29, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 569–587.
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
interrelationships between three distinct parties: payers, providers, and consumers. Each group has its own perspective accompanied by a set of unique incentives, which complicate the adoption of a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
employees on company time to make updates and edits to the software for community use that could be used by competitors? New research by Assistant Professor View Details
- September 2023
- Technical Note
Free and Open Source Software and Hardware
By: Frank Nagle
This technical note surveys the concepts of free and open source software and hardware. It introduces the concepts in general, providing a brief history of their development and numerous examples of how companies employ them in practice. Further, it identifies various...
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Corporate Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Competitive Strategy;
Patents;
Information Technology;
Business Model;
Open Source Distribution;
Applications and Software;
Information Technology Industry;
Technology Industry
Nagle, Frank. "Free and Open Source Software and Hardware." Harvard Business School Technical Note 724-380, September 2023.
- March 2019
- Article
Open Source Software and Firm Productivity
By: Frank Nagle
As open source software (OSS) is increasingly used as a key input by firms, understanding its impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of nonpecuniary (free) OSS and finds a positive and significant value-added...
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Applications and Software;
Open Source Distribution;
Performance Productivity;
Information Technology;
Strategy
Nagle, Frank. "Open Source Software and Firm Productivity." Management Science 65, no. 3 (March 2019): 1191–1215.
- March 2024
- Teaching Note
CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub
By: Frank Nagle and Maria P. Roche
This teaching note is the companion to case N9-624-010 CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub, which takes place in late 2021. The case briefly describes the history of both GitHub and Microsoft with a particular focus on open source software (OSS)—software...
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- September 2, 2021
- Article
The Digital Economy Runs on Open Source. Here's How to Protect It.
By: Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Frank Nagle
Free and open source software (FOSS) is essential to much of the tech we use every day—from cars to phones to planes to the cloud. While traditionally, it was developed by an army of volunteer developers and given away for free, companies are increasingly taking a more...
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Free And Open-source Software;
FOSS;
Open Source Distribution;
Applications and Software;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Policy;
Cybersecurity
Lifshitz-Assaf, Hila, and Frank Nagle. "The Digital Economy Runs on Open Source. Here's How to Protect It." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 2, 2021).
- 2015
- Working Paper
Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement
By: Frank Nagle and Christoph Riedl
Studies of online word of mouth have frequently posited―but never systematically conceptualized and explored―that the level of disagreement between existing product reviews can impact the volume and the valence of future reviews. In this study we develop a theoretical...
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Keywords:
Online Word Of Mouth;
Online Communities;
Viral Marketing;
Online Product Reviews;
Quality;
Internet and the Web;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketing Reference Programs;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Digital Marketing;
Analytics and Data Science
Nagle, Frank, and Christoph Riedl. "Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-091, May 2013. (Revised May 2015, selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings.)