Matching - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

complexities into the expansion plans of this entrepreneurial firm. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910404-PDF-ENG IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries John D. Macomber and Viraal BalsariHarvard Business School Case 210-050... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

is. When competition becomes less intense, firms place emphasis on the strategic orientation that matches the dominant environmental condition (e.g., technology orientation when technology turbulence is high). However, as competition... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Abstract We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (1) endogenous and slow diffusion of technologies from the developed to the developing country and (2) adjustment costs to investment flows. We calibrate the model to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

binding. Relaxing either of these two conditions causes matching to take place later, when more information about applicants' qualities is available, and consequently results in higher efficiency and fewer blocking pairs. This suggests... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

that can be contested in court to new applications involving herbals and synthetics, which are less contestable. Further, we study the ethnic origins of the inventors of herbal patents filed on the USPTO. For this analysis, we use ethnic name View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2010
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BartlettHarvard Business School Case 910-410 Describes the development of the global strategies and organizations of two major competitors in the consumer electronics industry. Over four decades, both companies adapt their strategic intent and organizational capability... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

But to what extent can mentoring—the old veteran teaching the young pup—speed up the process? DL: Well, I can't answer that with any authority because we didn't match the companies with entrepreneurs who didn't have coaches. What we do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2014
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Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

sizeable group. The loyalty retailer then needs to watch carefully its generic prices and in the meantime offer a price matching guarantee with the EDLP player. Such a situation exists in the UK where grocer Asda, owned by Walmart,... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

using a precisely constructed matched sample, we estimate the effect of a scientist becoming a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI) on citations to articles the scientist published before the prize was awarded. We do find evidence of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

cumulative innovation. To make progress towards understanding implications of such policy changes we devised a large-scale field experiment in which 733 subjects were divided into matched independent subgroups to address a bioinformatics... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

policies that maintain a low level of average inflation. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13754 Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2000
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Market Makers Bid for Success

part of your goal was to be able to mix and match some of the databases of items for sale, which you could do on a hosted version but couldn't do if they were off in disparate places. Randall: Right. For instance, right now we run... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important for organizations and the economy because the boundaries of organizational units and corporations are likely to match the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details