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- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
other content producers. They should consider which intermediaries they let into the channel and under which terms, or better yet, aim to be that intermediary themselves so as to maintain control over... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Vertical Alliance Networks: The Case of University-Biotechnology-Pharmaceutical Alliance Chains Authors:Toby E. Stuart, Salih Zeki Ozdemir, and Waverly W. Ding Periodical:Research Policy 36, no. 4 (May 2007): 477-498 Abstract Many young biotechnology firms act as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
investigates the press's role as a monitor or "watchdog" for accounting fraud. I find that the press fulfills this role by rebroadcasting information from other information intermediaries (analysts, auditors, and lawsuits) and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
for market intermediation: the "merchant" mode, in which the intermediary buys from sellers and resells to buyers; and the "two-sided platform" mode, under which the intermediary enables... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
contact each other through trusted intermediaries on the network to offer or seek jobs, consulting engagements, expertise, and financing. The company had outpaced its competitors by building the most populous online business network, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
marketplaces. The way marketplaces and intermediaries rank offers from sellers or service-providers can be thought of as an incentive system. Economists are well positioned to analyze issues such as short-term user behavior and the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
to offer benefits at no cost, it actually raises prices for buyers” If an intermediary like Expedia charges the same price as an airline, for example, then many consumers will choose to use the intermediary. After all, Expedia offers... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
up premiums for everyone else,” Edelman says. “As an ordinary consumer, your rates will go up whether or not you ever use Uber yourself.” (In related research, Edelman argues that online travel intermediaries like Expedia end up inflating... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors, which in turn is acquired thanks to the brokers’ ability to observe order flow before the rest of the market.” Stockbrokers are intermediaries who buy and sell stocks for retail and institutional clients, either for a fee or... View Details
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
accessible, preventive HIV vaccine, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) pioneered ways of addressing the inadequate incentive structures that prevented progress toward vaccines for AIDS and other diseases predominantly affecting poor populations in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Q: Can you each describe organizations that are effective in managing to outcomes? What are they doing differently? Ebrahim: I have two examples that are rather different from each other. The Acumen Fund is an intermediary funder that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
beliefs about the future potential of the venture. This adaptation and related entry by new financial intermediaries has led to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
encompass a more active role as an intermediary (like eBay) facilitating transactions; or challenge Microsoft's position on the PC desktop by developing software to compete with Office and Windows. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where initial experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. This adaptation and related entry by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
for them. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209104 Ocean Tomo: Building a Market for Intellectual Property Harvard Business School Case 709-404 Ocean Tomo's management team sought to turn the company into the leading View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
http://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/6820/Socios%20o%20acreedores%20ENG%202-25-15%20web.pdf?sequence=1 March 2015 The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business Models on Information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne