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MIT Sloan School of Management

Data Viz Sinan Aral Science

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The strength of weak ties theory is based on the idea that weak ties allow distant clusters of people to access novel information that can lead to new opportunities, innovation, and increased productivity. In their study, researchers from MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Stanford University conducted a five-year set of experiments on LinkedIn with 20 million people around the world, during which 600,000 new jobs were created.

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