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- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
social class was negatively related to percentage of friends on Facebook that are outside the United States. In Study 2, we extended these findings to the global level by analyzing country-level data on View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
limited. Friendster, the first website to resemble the social media outlets we have today, was still two years away from release in 2000. In contrast, Facebook currently has over 2 billion monthly users, more than a quarter of the...
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- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
costs-and therefore also the risk-of the album, which had been one-and-a-half years in development and was a particularly expensive proposition because of the many videos. How would fans and music industry insiders react to the daring launch, unveiled via Beyoncé's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5
Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 811-055 In October 2010, Triangulate's founder/CEO must determine what product features to develop and what marketing programs to pursue in order to boost the odds of successfully raising another venture capital...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
element is one of the things we focus on, because it is really fundamental.” Should regulators step in? As Google and Facebook face threats of antitrust action, issues related to the digital economy, including online pricing, are drawing...
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- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
than those who dress conventionally. “You're saying, 'I'm so autonomous and successful that I can afford to dress in a nonconforming way'” Think Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his hoodie, or the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in black...
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- 22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
as if they were entrepreneurs trying to build the business from scratch. “Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook are going to have to find ways to curate, ways to say certain kinds of activities are unacceptable, and if users are not happy, they...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12
let people pay their bills online, and airline apps let them check in and monitor the status of their flights. (2) Offer unique value. In South Korea, commuters can use an app to order groceries while waiting for their trains. (3) Provide social value. Apps on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Old Spice's Twitter campaign. In 2010, Procter & Gamble launched a campaign where Facebook and Twitter users were encouraged to send messages to Isaiah Mustafa, the strapping spokesman for Old Spice who markets the idea that if men...
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- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
stalled around mid-2007, just a few months after Facebook had released its programming platform which allowed outside programmers to build applications using its social network data. The wealth of new applications on View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
could develop new capabilities to sustain its growth miracle and entry into new technologies, expansion into B2B businesses, and internationalization. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717500-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-473 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
as Facebook and MySpace (and in South Korea, Cyworld), the business viability of these sites remains in question. While many sites are attempting to follow Google and generate revenues from advertising, will advertising be effective? If...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
offer the same benefits. While use of social platforms has increased during the pandemic, with Facebook traffic rising by 50 percent in some countries, people don’t get a boost of oxytocin from these interactions. Seeing random photos of...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
executive officer, on a visit to Pola's head office in Tokyo, heard news of critical comments about the company and animal testing in a Facebook post from a group in South Australia where the brand had been founded as a small biodynamic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
popular social network services such as Facebook and MySpace, LinkedIn had to decide whether to incorporate social networking into its value proposition. Third, in an increasingly global business environment, it had to weigh the option of...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
in the near future? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-145 Facebook Confronts a Crisis of Trust No abstract available. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
design business models to generate winner-take-all effects similar to the network externalities that high-tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook often create. A good business model creates virtuous cycles that, over time,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
succeeded. BandPage, which began as a Facebook app to help musicians build professional-looking pages and convert fan "likes" into revenue, has become a major hub in the online music network. BandPage has deals with upstream and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
Abstract—The article discusses the notion of advertising as a profession in relation to the impact of digital analytics and data-driven marketing. Topics include the history of internet marketing, the investments of the content-driven internet firms View Details
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Sean Silverthorne