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- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The infrastructure that processes... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Sweden compared with the United States. In particular, a later development of financial markets and a heavier tax burden for entrepreneurs have played a key role. Publisher's link: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/1/153.full.pdf+html 2006 Boston Review Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
structure the background against which business operates. The aim is to develop a plausible framework for managerial decision-making that respects the fact of value pluralism in a global economy and that fosters meaningful criticism of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
field study of 78 audit and consulting teams from two global professional firms, revealing an irony of team life: even though motivated to perform well on a high-stakes project, pressured teams are more likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
going back thousands of years to bazaars, but technology has enabled platforms to be globally scalable, which had never previously been possible. While many people lump innovation and transaction platforms together, we argue that they are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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assistant buyer and rose to overseeing buying in Europe and Asia. He was one of the first Black executives at Macy's. Wilkinson later moved to the New York City Transit Authority, becoming executive officer for surface transit with... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
overall competitiveness, the report identifies national competitive strengths and weaknesses, highlights global economic trends, and signals the ingredients of successful economic development. The Index is part of the research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Competitiveness Global Practice. In Haiti, for example, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic earthquake in 2010, Duch says that after “a crash course in strategy,” having used the HBS case method,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
strategies. Procter & Gamble employed this model when it wanted to become a major player in the global beauty-care sector. It transformed the down-market Oil of Olay into a world-class brand and proved that this product could attract both... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Creating more effective content across all media
Associate Professor Thales Teixeira’s research into the economics of attention explores the ways in which companies can better communicate with buyers of goods and services in a marketplace cluttered with messaging across all media.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These individuals, because of their collective size, will likely redefine the concept of banking and financial access in the future.” Working... View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
HiHome Sweet HiHome
Massachusetts, while Parker had recently gone through the process of buying a new home. “Tony really understood me,” said Parker, who graduates from the MS/MBA program this week. “He was able to articulate the pains that I had felt as a new home View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
this work,” says Roberts, “and nine out of ten will describe turning over logs and discovering things when they were little.” Four decades later, he’s still discovering nature, but on a global scale. Since his appointment in February 2005... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
well as streaming options like Spotify and Apple Music. A recent New York Times article, “A $1 Billion Competitor for Music Rights Says ‘Content Is Queen,’” explains that HarbourView is backed by up to $1 billion from Apollo Global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
CHARAN: Drawing on his global consulting experience. LAFLEY: Customers are “the boss.” Photo courtesy Proctor & Gamble What does it take to delight low-income Mexican buyers of sanitary pads? The answer is... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure By: Kayser, Susan A., John W. Maxwell, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—To assess and manage reputational risks associated with supply chains, buyers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne