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June 2016 (Revised March 2017)
Technical Note

Disintermediation in Two-Sided Marketplaces

By: Benjamin Edelman and Philip Hu

Two-sided marketplaces often risk disintermediation: users may rely on the marketplace to find each other but then perform related future transactions—or even the current transaction—without the platform’s involvement and without paying any fees the platform may... View Details

Keywords: Disintermediation; Strategic Behavior; Circumvention; Undercutting; Uber; Airbnb; Handy; Upwork; Etsy; eBay; Monster.com; Google; Competitive Strategy; Multi-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Transportation Industry; Accommodations Industry; Service Industry; Advertising Industry

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15 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World’s Largest Democracy?

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Maya Reddy

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

“no contact” delivery protocol. With our system, volunteers get to decide when and how much to help. Additionally, we have decided to build a matching algorithm to pair volunteers to requests. We looked around at some of the different... View Details

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

starts with using yourself as an instrument to get things done. And because you're the instrument, you've got to know that instrument very well and use it appropriately, so that your imprint matches your impact. We talk a lot about what... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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IPOs (initial public offerings)

add any additional screening criteria. In LSEG Workspace: Click on the Search Tools tab and select Companies. In the text box where it says Add Filters type in ‘IPO’ and select IPO Date. Add the desired date or date range and click Done. Add other criteria... View Details

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

will be valued by the company. Be realistic about whether you are a good match for at least some of what the company is seeking. Step 2: Prepare Your Personal Elevator Pitch You will need materials that describe who you are as a potential... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

new employer-employee matched data, the authors find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level uncertainty is associated with a decline in total compensation, especially in variable pay. They... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Featured Exercises Market-to-book ratios exercises Match companies to their cost of debt and industries to their betas 6-7 hrs Module 5 Valuation Determine how the future affects value today, compare various valuation methods, and discuss... View Details

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

its data with the research team. Gallani and her coauthors were then able to match the ideas proposed by the workers with the type of employment contracts they were working under. In researching about 512 employees between 2014 and 2016,... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

markets to exogenous changes in exports. By matching this instrument with electoral and survey data, I provide evidence that declining exports increased the power of evangelical leaders to persuade their congregations to vote against... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

regard to the skill sets they have developed, this step will necessitate a one-to-one matching of skills and job requirements. As people with the needed skills and interests are selected for employment and as they further evolve their... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

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... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

facilitates our matching process, which links requests to team members based on expertise and availability. When possible, more than one team member may be assigned to your project to ensure coverage and leverage complementary skillsets.... View Details

Portrait Project

Jeff Barkas

My grandparents could do everything, until one day, they couldn’t. I was used to the weekends when I would play tennis matches and card games with my grandpa and enjoy my grandma’s famous chicken cutlets. They were so healthy into their... View Details

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Help - Research Computing Services

prevalent method of contacting RCS and is recommended as it facilitates matching the request to the person on the team best suited to address the inquiry. Clients typically receive an email response within a business day. What is the... View Details

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

Before I transitioned out of the military, I started to look at jobs I wanted in 5-10 years. I quickly realized that an MBA would help me get those. I then found the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program at HBS and instantly knew it was the perfect View Details

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

Google, Microsoft, and Fedex, to foster creativity, deepen learning, and solve complex problems.) Thomke became a certified LSP facilitator and then spent more than a year working on the design of his class, with the intent of creating a student learning experience to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

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Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?

As a Program Advisor, I really enjoy working with people to help match individuals to the programs that meet their individual learning needs. We currently deliver more than 130 open enrollment and custom programs to over 13,000... View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

little or nothing for principals, whose leadership of schools could be unleashed to make giant strides in excellence. She called her idea Principals Connect. She would match principals who were seeking help finding resources or solving... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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