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- October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.
Li & Fung, one of the largest export trading companies in Asia, works primarily as an agent to connect U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of nondurable, mass-market consumer goods with suppliers located all over East Asia who manufacture products according...
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Networks;
Marketplace Matching;
Supply Chain Management;
Trade;
Manufacturing Industry;
Retail Industry;
Asia;
United States;
Europe
Loveman, Gary W., and Jamie O'Connell. "Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 396-075, October 1995. (Revised June 1996.)
- Winter 2013
- Article
The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators
By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent for patents, and when buyers and sellers do...
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Keywords:
Intellectual Property;
Platforms;
Intermediaries;
Aggregator;
Patents;
Digital Platforms;
Marketplace Matching;
Distribution Channels
Hagiu, Andrei, and David B. Yoffie. "The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 45–66.
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
The International Price of Remote Work
By: Agostina Brinatti, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino and Andres Drenik
We study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market using data from a large web-based job platform, where workers from around the world compete for remote jobs. Despite the global nature of the platform, we find that remote wages are higher...
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Keywords:
Remote Work;
Exchange Rates;
Purchasing Power Parity;
Offshoring And Outsourcing;
Macroeconomics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Wages;
Trade;
Globalization;
Marketplace Matching;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Service Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Technology Industry
Brinatti, Agostina, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik. "The International Price of Remote Work." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29437, October 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
ho-hum and quickly forgotten? Stefan Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explains that “the difference has less to do with catchy marketing and everything to do with the...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54476 Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace By: Gu, Grace, and Feng Zhu Abstract—As an intermediary improves trust between two sides of its market to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
ads. But when this practice feels invasive to people, it can prompt a strong backlash. Marketers today need to understand where to the draw the line. The good news is that psychologists already know a lot about what triggers privacy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community...
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- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
reservation. With Marriott, it’s a manual system with software sprinkled in to make human processes more effective. But Airbnb is fundamentally digital. And that means every human bottleneck is pushed out. You have algorithms matching...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
course, is only one of many factors that determine a film's market performance. Film characteristics such as story line, genre, and the use of special effects also affect demand. The role of directors and other creative talent could play...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage
By: Pu Gu, Benjamin Yost and Yuan Zou
This study investigates whether social media coverage influences a firm’s likelihood of being acquired. Specifically, we hypothesize that coverage of a firm on the Seeking Alpha platform raises its visibility to potential acquirers and M&A advisers (i.e., investment...
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Gu, Pu, Benjamin Yost, and Yuan Zou. "Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage." Working Paper, July 2023.
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
viewership numbers. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808121 MP3 Portable Audio Player Market Harvard Business School Case 608-119 The emergence of the MP3 file-based music format not only...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
subsumes as special cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand’s Social Network on Marketing Outcomes By: John, Leslie K., Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta, and Michael I....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
Network Effects Authors:Hanna W. Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally prefer a platform-limiting choice. We show...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
economics, and market design, was that the right was structured as what he terms a Before and After Right of First Refusal (BA-ROFR). The right holder is offered an initial deal by the asset owner—the landlord offers to sell the flat to...
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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
Buyers and sellers in mature industrial markets can turn single transactions into long-term beneficial relationships by a deeper understanding of the complex connection between the two, says Harvard Business School professor Narakesari...
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by Martha Lagace
- August 2015
- Case
Building an e-Commerce Brand at Wayfair
By: Thales Teixeira and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
Wayfair, Inc. comprised five home goods, furniture, and décor e-commerce brands. Wayfair.com, the main brand, which was responsible for the majority of sales, targeted the mass-middle home-goods market. AllModern, DwellStudio, Joss & Main, and Birch Lane were niche...
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Keywords:
E-commerce;
Wayfair;
Wayfair.com;
Amazon;
Retailing;
Furnishing;
Funnel;
Attribution;
"Marketing Analytics";
Brand Building;
Digital Platforms;
Marketplace Matching;
Marketing;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Media;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Communication;
Advertising;
Resource Allocation;
Decisions;
Advertising Industry;
Communications Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States
Teixeira, Thales, and Elizabeth Anne Watkins. "Building an e-Commerce Brand at Wayfair." Harvard Business School Case 516-028, August 2015.
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that View Details