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  • Research Summary

Markets and Market Design

The topic on which I currently spend the most of my research energy is the study of strategic interaction and reputation systems on eBay and similar markets from an applied, market design perspective. The rise of the Internet allowed a whole new generation of markets... View Details
  • March 2021
  • Article

On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks

By: Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana and Enrique Moral-Benito
We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate loans from 2003 to 2013 to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Credit Supply Shocks; Bank Lending Channel; Input-output Linkages; Output; Mechanisms; Trade Credits; Price Effects; Economics; Credit; System Shocks; Employment; Investment; Spain
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    Strategies for Two-Sided Markets

    Many blockbuster products and services that have redefined the global business landscape are built around platforms that tie together two distinct groups of users in a network. Examples include credit cards that link consumers and merchants; operating systems that... View Details

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    Competitive Dynamics of the Textile-Apparel-Retail Channel

    By: Janice H. Hammond
    Janice H. Hammond established in 1991 (with Frederick H. Abernathy and John Dunlop of Harvard University and David Weil of Boston University) the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research. Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has supported the... View Details
    • February 2024
    • Case

    ReSpo.Vision: The Kickstart of an AI Sports Revolution

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Nikolina Jonsson
    This case study explores the growth journey of Polish computer vision sports start-up ReSpo.Vision in an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem. By providing 3D data and analysis to soccer clubs, ReSpo.Vision achieved significant milestones with a €1 million seed round, an... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Business Plan; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; Poland; Europe
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    • 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    Teaching Note for Case 313-028. Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London became a Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellow. During her fellowship she set out to... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Education; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Decision Making; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Change Management; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Service Industry; North and Central America
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    • April 2015
    • Teaching Plan

    Codecademy: Monetizing a Movement?

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Lisa Mazzanti
    This is a Teaching Plan for the case on Codecademy, an open-platform, online community for learning computer programming, launched in 2011. By 2014, the company had raised a total of $12.5 million in funding and was, on many fronts, an overwhelming success. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Open Source Distribution; Social Entrepreneurship; Education
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    • 30 Aug 2021
    • News

    Kominers’s Conundrums: A Heist Leads to a Virtual Adventure

    • 03 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 3, 2006

    2003). Blue-collar workers, in contrast, increasingly work outside the archetypal work gang and operate machinery or computers in isolation from others. As manual labor evolves to require more interaction with machines and less... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Faculty & Advisors - MBA

    distinction in Computational Biology from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge as a Paul Mellon Fellow. Eileen McCullough MBA ‘05, Harvard University; BS, Chemistry, Amherst College Eileen is... View Details
    • March 1988 (Revised September 1993)
    • Case

    United Services Automobile Association (USAA)

    Under the leadership of Robert F. McDermott, USAA has been transformed from a property and casualty insurance company with $200 million in assets in the late 1960s to a $11 billion financial services empire in 1988. The case illustrates the value of having a CEO drive... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leadership; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
    • Case

    Cybertech Project (A), The

    Describes the development and exploitation of a radical new computer-integrated technology in the largely manual meat-processing industry. The technology has been developed by the meat industry's research organization over a period of 15 years and is now ready for... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Information Technology; Product Marketing; Manufacturing Industry; Information Technology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 10 Mar 2022
    • HBS Seminar

    Adina Sterling, Stanford

    • November 2019
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • June 2017
    • Teaching Note

    IBM Transforming, 2012–2016: Ginni Rometty Steers Watson

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
    Ginni Rometty, who became IBM CEO in 2012, led efforts to transform the company around cognitive computing and the AI platform Watson. This Teaching Note helps instructors understand and teach the Harvard Business School case “IBM Transforming, 2012–2016: Ginni Rometty... View Details
    Keywords: Digital; Technological Change; Artificial Intelligence; Data; IBM; Watson; Internet Of Things; Innovation and Invention; Management; Sales; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Transformation; AI and Machine Learning
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    • June 2012
    • Article

    Consequence-Cause Matching: Looking to the Consequences of Events to Infer Their Causes

    By: Robyn A. LeBoeuf and Michael I. Norton
    We show that people non-normatively infer event causes from event consequences. For example, people inferred that a product failure (computer crash) had a large cause (widespread computer virus) if it had a large consequence (job loss), but that the identical failure... View Details
    Keywords: Causal Inference; Product; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives; Failure
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    • July 1989 (Revised April 1996)
    • Case

    AUCNET: TV Auction Network System

    The AUCNET system links buyers and sellers in the wholesale used car market in Japan. Video images delivered via videodisk or satellite along with an inspector's opinion and objective character based data are used to conduct a realtime auction over computers and... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Auctions; Service Industry; Japan; United States
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    • October 1996 (Revised December 1996)
    • Case

    United Electric Controls

    By: H. Kent Bowen, Jody H. Gittell and Sylvie Ryckebusch
    United Electric Controls (UE) was a small, traditional family-owned manufacturing company when Dave Reis, the youngest member of the Reis family, took over the business. This case describes Reis's efforts to change UE's traditional work practices in order to make the... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Family Business; Production; Business Strategy; Human Resources; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Decisions; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    • 01 Dec 2021
    • News

    How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

    • 25 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

    “occupational sorting,” with men choosing careers that pay higher wages than women do, labor economists say. For example, women represent only 26 percent of US workers employed in computer and math jobs, according to the Department of... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman