Blockchain and the Future of Work
You've heard the hype. You've heard the promises of global transformation from... blockchain. I waived it aside as outside of my realm of expertise…
In the relationship era of business, networked structure rules
In the heyday of the industrial era, business jargon had a mechanical ring to it. A flourishing organization was a “well-oiled machine,” and terms…
The Secret Economic Lives of Animals
If Adam Smith had strapped on a bee suit, he could have discovered that the animal kingdom is, in fact, a chamber of commerce.
Social networks push runners to run further and faster than their friends
The study offers some of the first hard evidence that health-related habits can spread — and so perhaps could be deliberately seeded and encouraged —…
The decisive thing is your network. Work is interaction.
Networks provide problem-solving capability that results directly from the richness of communication and the amount of connectivity. What happens in…
Learning social network embeddings for predicting information diffusion
Analyzing and modeling the temporal diffusion of information on social media has mainly been treated as a diffusion process on known graphs or…
If everything is a network, nothing is a network
Only some of our proposed solutions for visualising the Waze traffic flows were ever put to the test. There’s only so much you can visualise when you…
When Hierarchies and Networks Collide
What happens when a hierarchy meets its match in today’s networked world? Who wins, the hierarchy or the network?
The Formation and Imprinting of Network Effects Among the Business Elite
The business elite constitutes a small but strikingly influential subset of the population, oftentimes affecting important societal outcomes such as…
The Role of Networks in Fundamental Organizational Change
The Role of Networks in Fundamental Organizational Change A Grounded Analysis Susan Albers Mohrman University of Southern California Ramkrishnan V.…