Miklos Sarvary

Author's details

Name: Miklos Sarvary
Date registered: January 16, 2012
URL: http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/msarvary/

Biography

Miklos has been appointed as the Dean of Executive Education at INSEAD on September 1st, 2009. For years he has worked closely with the school’s Executive Development in his function as the Director of INSEAD’s Learning Innovation Center, a research outlet with the mission to develop innovative teaching formats for executive programs. Before joining INSEAD, Miklos was a faculty member at the Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He studied physics in Hungary’s Eotvos Lorand University, earned an MS in Statistics from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and a Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked for IBM, selling integrated IT solutions to large financial institutions. Miklos' most recent research focuses on social networks and new media (metaverses) and how these technologies transform marketing. His recent papers study media competition, online advertising, the structure of the Internet and techniques related to ‘community management’. Previously, he did work on dynamic R&D strategies, information marketing, the worldwide pricing of cellular telephone services and the global diffusion of telecommunications products. He is Associate Editor of Marketing Science and Quantitative Marketing and Economics and member of the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Research in Marketing and Journal of Interactive Marketing. Miklos has taught executive courses and consulted in various parts of the world for large corporations, including Degussa, Danisco, IBM, INTEL, Nokia, Alcatel, Samsung, Pearson, McKinsey & Co., Dun & Bradstreet and PwC.

Latest posts

  1. Contradictions about Facebook — May 6, 2013
  2. Video on demand: some news — March 19, 2013
  3. Evolution of Video Game Industry — January 14, 2013
  4. Google News in Europe — December 17, 2012
  5. Traditional media and user-generated content — November 21, 2012

Author's posts listings

Facebook’s stock price

Today’s 8pm News on French TV reviewed the evolution of Facebook’s stock price – an interesting move from a rather ‘business unfriendly’ medium. Or was it, maybe, jealousy the motivating factor? “See those 20-year billionaires in the US; their success is all bogus….”
Putting media bias aside, it is hard not to wonder about the steadily declining stock price of Facebook.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/08/facebooks-stock-price/

Olympics on new and traditional media

There is an interesting conflict between new and traditional media when it comes to global sport events, the biggest of which being the summer Olympic games. Old media buys broadcasting rights and airs events punctuated by advertising. As long as events are aired in real time there is no problem.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/08/olympics-on-new-and-traditional-media/

Is Wikipedia biased?

A very interesting study about Wikipedia appeared in the recent issue of the American Economic Review … Read more(Greenstein and Zhu, 2012). The article tries to establish if Wikipedia is biased in a political sense? Are articles more left or right leaning? The question is interesting because Wikipedia is the prototypical medium built entirely on user-generated content.

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/06/is-wikipedia-biased/

Oracles again

There is a good article in The Economist, June 9th, 2012 about expert advice. The article provides evidence that such advice remains very highly on demand despite clear evidence that it’s quality is bad. One of the key reasons mentioned is that people need psychological reassurance: “we believe in experts the same way our anchestors believed in oracles; we want to believe in a controllable world and we have a flawed understanding of the laws of chance.” ends the article with a quote from a recent author (Philip Tetlock: Expert political advice).… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/06/oracles-again/

Google’s Knowledge Graph

Google has just announced that it will completely reshape the presentation of its search results. Instead of listing websites where people can find the answer to their queries, it will present data, links, pictures, etc. from its own databases, some 500 million “items”.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/05/googles-knowledge-graph/

SEC considers civil case against Egan-Jones, an independent CRA

Egan-Jones is a relatively young, independent credit rating agency (CRA), one of few such institutions where investors pay for the agency’s services not the institutions whose securities are being rated. As I have written many times before, this difference is important as it has been shown that the conflict of interest so fundamental to traditional large CRAs (like Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, etc.) has been one of the reasons for the recent financial crisis and previous stock market bubbles.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/04/sec-considers-civil-case-against-egan-jones-an-independent-cra/

Social publishers: a new paradigm for online media

Many of my recent readings of the business press give the impression that a consensus seems to emerge among professional content providers (also called “content mills”) – online newspapers (e.g. Huffington Post, The Business Insider), online tabloids (e.g. BuzzFeed) or blogs.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/04/social-publishers-a-new-paradigm-for-online-media/

Freedom and the Internet

The Jasmine Revolution that has affected many of the Arab countries showed how big a role the Internet in general and social networks in particular can play in promoting political freedom. Social networks promoted the free flow of information and also helped people organize spontaneous demonstrations against oppressive regimes.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/03/freedom-and-the-internet/

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