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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral
Graduate wins Nobel Prize Dr. Robert B. Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) becomes the first HBS Doctoral graduate to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Dr. Wilson, together with Dr. Paul Milgrom, were honored for their improvements to View Details
Alvin E. Roth
Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
that exports roses to predominantly Europe. Because cut flowers have a limited shelf life and consumers want them to retain their appearance for as long as possible, Sian or its distributors used international air cargo to transport them to Amsterdam, where they were... View Details
Elon Kohlberg
Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.
Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
a hedge against potential product liability claims but also as a marketing edge. Finally, eBay has used litigation in creative ways to protect the information on its sites from firms like Bidder's Edge that sought to aggregate it with data from other View Details
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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
online building materials auction exchange. Business Track, 1998 Zefer Anthony Tjan Matthew Burkley Alexandre Scherer Business Track Winner Interactive consultancy focused on web-enabled strategy Crimson Solutions Business Track Runner-Up... View Details
Paul W. Marshall
MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
startup. Liquidation follows and, along with it, a contentious auction of assets to pay creditors. “There are many things that entrepreneurs can do to fail well—in ways that preserve their relationships and integrity—and to position... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
wake-up call from a small but loyal group of purists: mechanical watch collectors. "When things looked really bad for the mechanical watch industry, when the industry seemed on the verge of collapse, watch collectors started buying mechanical watches at View Details
- April 2005 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's
By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
A five-member team from Berkshire Partners must recommend a final bid and financial structure for a leveraged buyout of William Carter Co., a leading producer of children's apparel. Investorcorp, a global investment group, has put the company up for auction. Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and James Quinn. "Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's." Harvard Business School Case 205-058, April 2005. (Revised August 2011.)
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Introduction to Auctions Experiments: Design Principles Examples of Complements in Cross-Price Elasticity Show Hide Details Concepts Direct Approaches for Assessing Demand Indirect Approaches for Assessing Demand Conjoint Analysis... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
more than usual. My professor was really concerned and called an ambulance to take me to triage. It was my first time riding in an ambulance and I was very thankful that Harvard insurance covered it. :) I remember My son was born the day before the charity auction,... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
powerful tools to fix the business. One of these is the automatic stay, discussed previously. Companies in Chapter 11 can also reject unfavorable leases and supply agreements (under Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code); sell assets in a competitive View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
non-payment of a tax bill, the property would have been sold in a foreclosure auction had her uncle back in Africa not paid the debt. A few months later, Dlodlo moved to Washington, DC, where she founded an online clothing business... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
negotiations and auctions are the only two ways in which assets get sold in any market economy. There's a deep literature on each of these mechanisms but very little on the interplay between the two—that messy, murky middle ground where... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
work in market design are interested in how the rules by which markets are organized influence the behavior of participants. So, when I noticed, back in the early days of eBay, that a lot of auctions received bids right near the end of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism
+ ONLINE web-only content Art collecting is no longer only the province of pricey auction houses. “You don’t need millions of dollars to do what I do,” says Marc Weidner (MBA 2007), a director at Lazard whose 15-year-old personal... View Details
- August 2007
- Article
Negotiations versus Auctions: New Advice for Buyers
By: Ian Larkin
Larkin, Ian. "Negotiations versus Auctions: New Advice for Buyers." Negotiation 10, no. 8 (August 2007).