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- February 2000 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
eBricks.com
eBricks.com is developing an online marketplace for construction materials. The start-up company faces two decisions: 1) whether to merge with BluelineOnline.com, a firm providing project management solutions for the construction industry; and 2) whether to develop an...
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Strategic Planning;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Marketplace Matching;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Business Startups;
Construction Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "eBricks.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-327, February 2000. (Revised May 2001.)
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often...
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- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
would come out strong, in fact ties from non–Ivy League schools were just as powerful, the researchers learned. They detail the results and implications in an HBS working paper, "Sell Side School Ties" [PDF]. "Our findings suggest that agents in...
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- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
says. “The mentor might suggest, ‘Why don’t you do a better marketing campaign?’ The problem is, I’m not sure money spent on ads would improve help, and the cost of marketing might even lead to lower profits...
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by Ben Rand
- September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy
By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the...
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Decision Making;
Development Economics;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Intellectual Property;
Emerging Markets;
Market Design;
Marketplace Matching;
Science;
Genetics;
Natural Environment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Social Enterprise;
Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Information Technology;
Ownership;
Social Psychology;
Trust;
Society;
Biotechnology Industry;
South America;
Amazon Basin
Khanna, Tarun, Raffaella Sadun, and Susie L. Ma. "Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy." Harvard Business School Case 720-356, September 2019. (Revised August 2020.)
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55999 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets By: Srinivasan, Suraj, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—Gatekeepers in financial View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
The European market remains very attractive, with strong potential for growth—especially once French and German restructuring gets more underway, according to a panel of private equity group executives. That panel discussion was part of...
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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
present paper considers a market for which such data can be gathered. Prior to 1992, college football teams were matched for post-season play, in "bowl" games, up to several weeks before the end of...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process....
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by Joseph B. Fuller
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
complete financial information across the twentieth century (especially pre-1925), a multi-tiered financial analysis approach was utilized: (1) Tobin's Q Performance (market to book value); (2) Return on Assets Ratios; and (3) Market...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
high-growth companies, those with the greatest potential to create jobs. One challenge: geographic gaps across the United States. "Despite the fact that America has a very robust market for risk capital, about 70 percent of the...
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- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
suited to a world in which leaders are immersed in a stream of possibilities, surprises, opportunities, and deals in the active, fluid markets that surround and pervade their organizations. Commitments require data, analysis, and...
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by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Political Economy Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility By: Galichon, Alfred, Scott Duke Kominers, and Simon Weber Abstract—We introduce an empirical framework for models of View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
From France to Italy, Germany to Denmark, chances are good that if you pick a country in Europe, you can match it with its state-owned airline. But as Europe unites, barriers come down, and competition heats up, cross-border mergers have...
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- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era that Adam Smith penned his...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate loans for 2003–2013 to identify bank-specific shocks for each year using methods from the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
responsibility for a functional department within a business unit—for example, the director of marketing or a plant manager.) And Stage 3 covered upper middle management to the executive level. (A person in this stage became a corporate...
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by David A. Thomas