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- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
the last decade, a variety of novel patent intermediaries have emerged. We discuss how several online platforms have started services for buying and selling patents but have failed to gain meaningful traction. And new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
http://www.palgrave-journals.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/jibs/journal/v45/n8/pdf/jibs201443a.pdf Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
paper develops a framework that defines the roles of customers and investors in intermediaries and uses the framework to provide an economic foundation for the aversion to intermediary credit risk on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
fills a void by making the market between, on the one hand, thousands of producers of goods and services and on the other, big-box retailers and many others in the United States that want to source from emerging markets. Li & Fung took advantage of the need for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
are commonly called thrifts: savings banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions. Savings institutions were really the first financial intermediaries established specifically to serve the personal saving and borrowing needs of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the marketplace-mode) or by the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
in the development of what economists term "agglomeration economies" in the regions with the greatest venture capital activity. The efficiency of the venture capital process itself has been greatly augmented by the emergence of other View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
market, then investors, employees, intermediaries such as law firms and data providers, and the wider capital markets are likely to be knowledgeable about the venturing process and the strategies, financing, support, and exit mechanisms... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
relationships. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/01/blame-me/ar/1 Working Papers Price Coherence and Adverse Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit to buyers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
the way in which the conflicts of interest between owners and managers of firms are managed by the key intermediary institution of the board of directors. There has been increasing controversy over whether directors are playing the role... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
model of financial innovation, in which intermediaries engineer securities with cash flows that investors seek, but modify two assumptions. First, investors (and possibly intermediaries) neglect certain unlikely risks. Second, investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Diversion, Rent Extraction and Competition Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract This paper studies search diversion by competing intermediaries connecting consumers with third-party stores. First, we show that endogenizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
intermediaries, who assume risk, provide less-than-fully-elastic supply. We show that equilibrium required returns will be "high" in the presence of financing imperfections that make intermediary capital costly. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
quality of the search service offered to consumers is more likely to be degraded (i.e. the probability that consumers find their favorite store in the first round of search is less than 1) when the intermediary derives higher revenues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
relationship in practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38678 Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—We analyze the incentives for a two-sided View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
specialized intermediaries emerges over decades to address these issues. There might be auction houses for the wholesaling of goods, companies that specialize in gathering price data for various commodities, others that authenticate the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
coming off welfare to avert a potentially large national problem (and a political problem for President Clinton). Intermediary organizations such as local and national nonprofits provided training and helped identify job-ready candidates.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
do some sophisticated talent arbitrage” In order to gauge the effect on executive pay, the researchers obtained a data set from a large global headhunting company, one of many consulting firms that act as intermediaries between companies... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
"This is an intimately personal transaction, yet in many instances, people don't want to be involved with the ultimate suppliers. It's a market suited to intermediaries such as brokers, lawyers, and agents." The emphasis in... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
collected describes the needs not only of ultimate customers but also of intermediaries such as retailers and wholesalers. Q: What is the most important take-away? What can business leaders start doing now to improve their Value Profit... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney