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- 13 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Intermediaries for the IP Market
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by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
- March 2008
- Article
What Have We Learned from Market Design?
By: Alvin E. Roth
This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Market Design;
Market Participation;
Market Transactions;
Failure;
Safety
Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned from Market Design?" Economic Journal 118, no. 527 (March 2008): 285–310. (Hahn Lecture.)
- June 2005
- Background Note
Overview of the Japanese Apparel Market
By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han
Provides an overview of the Japanese apparel market, which was a 13.1 trillion yen industry in 2003, reflecting 5.5% year-over-year shrinkage since 1997, when retailers logged 17.5 trillion yen in sales. Compared to their global counterparts, Japanese apparel shoppers...
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Keywords:
Trends;
Financial Crisis;
Trade;
Emerging Markets;
Sales;
Luxury;
Competition;
Segmentation;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Asia;
China;
Japan;
Korean Peninsula
Lal, Rajiv, and Arar Han. "Overview of the Japanese Apparel Market." Harvard Business School Background Note 505-068, June 2005.
- 2009
- Case
Innovamedica: Innovation in an Emerging Market
By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama
Innovamedica was a medical start up with several state of the art devices such as a silicon substitute heart and other inventions. However, the founding scientist was struggling in attracting talent and fundraising and that had an impact on growth.
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Keywords:
Biotech;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Start-up;
Emergent Countries;
Business Startups;
Talent and Talent Management;
Design;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Private Equity;
Health Testing and Trials;
Innovation and Invention;
Managerial Roles;
Biotechnology Industry;
Latin America;
North and Central America
Charvel, Roberto, Fernando Fabre, and T. Putimahtama. "Innovamedica: Innovation in an Emerging Market." Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE) Case (P)DGe-440, 2009.
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
the do-it-yourself approach rather than outsourcing to a market research firm is attractive in a cost-cutting era, but you risk getting no more than what you pay for. The opinions of convenience sample of an...
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by John Quelch
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When the...
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by John Quelch
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
Emerging markets such as the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—entice and intimidate. When managers are asked what is special about emerging markets, they typically point to rapid economic growth, potential competitors, and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
What is the perfect job for someone who is fiercely independent, likes to work with artistic people, has no desire to be fabulously wealthy, and has "a mouth with a death wish"? Give up? "My friends who have known me the longest tell me that running a flea View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Supplement
Sandlands Vineyards
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
Approximately 80% of the wineries in the US breakeven or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who specializes in making...
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Keywords:
Wine;
Winery;
Vineyard;
Market Attractiveness;
Porter's 5 Forces;
Capital Investment;
Industry Attractiveness;
Performance Analysis;
Napa Valley;
Agriculture;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Vertical Integration;
Segmentation;
Food;
Supply Chain;
Industry Structures;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
California;
Napa Valley
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
Tesco PLC is the third-largest retailer in the world, just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. But that didn't make the UK-based chain immune from many costly mistakes as it entered the US market in 2006. For example, it opened some of its...
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- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman discusses the paper's findings. Key concepts include: Discount vouchers provide price discrimination, letting merchants attract consumers who would not ordinarily patronize their...
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- Web
Marketing - Faculty & Research
Marketing Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Featured Publication Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb By: Shunyuan...
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- February 2019
- Article
The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct
By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States from 2005 to 2015, representing approximately 10% of employment of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide...
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Keywords:
Financial Advisors;
Brokers;
Consumer Finance;
Financial Misconduct And Fraud;
FINRA;
Financial Institutions;
Crime and Corruption;
Organizational Culture;
Personal Finance;
Financial Services Industry
Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru. "The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct." Journal of Political Economy 127, no. 1 (February 2019): 233–295.
- July 2010
- Supplement
Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Customer Lifetime Value Analysis (CW)
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
Customers are increasingly being viewed as assets that bring value to the firm. Customer lifetime value is a metric which allows managers to understand the overall value of their customer base and relate it to three customer strategies firms employ: asset acquisition -...
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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
Andrei Hagiu is on the vanguard of a new field of business research that explores the dynamics of multi-sided markets. Although these markets have been around a long time, they have not really been recognized as entities unique from other...
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- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
services to citizens can institute service improvements and metrics modeled after those in the private sector. They can call on social marketers to aid in communicating with customers and creating attractive...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
marketing. "That day, Maria's life changed forever, and so did mine," says Max Eisenbud, her agent at sports agency IMG, as quoted in the recent Harvard Business School case "Maria Sharapova: Marketing a Champion."...
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- March 2018
- Teaching Note
Sandlands Vineyards
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
Teaching Note for HBS No.718-438.
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Keywords:
Wine;
Winery;
Vineyard;
Market Attractiveness;
Porter's 5 Forces;
Capital Investment;
Industry Attractiveness;
Performance Analysis;
Napa Valley;
Agriculture;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Vertical Integration;
Segmentation;
Food;
Supply Chain;
Industry Structures;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
California;
Napa Valley
- Web
Events - Creating Emerging Markets
Events CEM hosts international conferences in-person and online. Our events in Boston, Mumbai, and Santiago have attracted prominent scholars, archivists, and practitioners in the respective regions. Mar 18 18-19 MAR 2024 Boston, MA Oral...
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Canary Categories—Journal of Marketing Research
Typically, past spending in a category is a positive indicator of future purchasing. In this we show that there exist categories (which we name "canary categories") in which the reverse is true -
When customers purchase...
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