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- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
board-level power and are heavily involved in areas like governance, capital allocation, data management, internal reporting and group-level budgeting and planning. What's more, other significant roles—such as the so-called group risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on 2,521 participants demonstrating the embodied effects of expansive versus contractive nonverbal postures. We discuss a new addition to this list that found an embodied effect of nonverbal expansiveness on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
commodity, the major actors have focused primarily on lowering and shifting costs, increasing their bargaining power, and restricting services. Providers have offered broad and undifferentiated services, competing based on convenience and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
platform that made Enron the top buyer and seller of gas and electricity in the United States and Europe in its first year of operation. Many examples View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the solution and one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
learn some lessons from the limited success of current approaches to design their strategy in this exciting area. Do You Really Want to Be an eBay? Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract Most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
itself. ©iStock/Nina Piatrouskaya Pitching an idea before actually producing a product can be advantageous to an entrepreneur because of the possibility of early and ongoing feedback from a seasoned buyer.... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
health," one health advocate said. Consisting of a small barrel-shaped design that mimics an actual cigarette, the devices vaporize a liquid nicotine solution, which is then inhaled without the tar and carcinogens found in smoke.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
deprived them of their bargaining power, at least into April when the presidential order expired. There is, however, a better way - one that would permit the contending parties to fight it out while limiting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
dynamics and strategies used by firms that recognize the transformative power of these “invisible engines.” Shorter discussions of Internet-based software platforms offer... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
buyer characteristics. Consider the experiences of condo developers targeting retirees who wanted to downsize their homes. Sales were weak until the developers realized their business was not construction... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
competition from other players in their respective industries. Many factors contributed to their success but much hinged on their ability, as Koehn writes, to create “products and connections to buyers that offered not only quality,... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
prices reflect substantially all publicly available information, and buyers can see which companies provide good value for the money. By establishing trust in the information, this system has lowered the cost View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
free-reign of bargaining power with no check upon it. In reality, courts cannot implement agreements costlessly, and parties often prefer to use "non-cooperative"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Time Warner) are defining the business models that are reshaping the global business landscape and redefining power. Once again, emerging models exploit the power of technological, business, and social... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
learning-by-doing coupled with reflection. Further, we hypothesize and find that the effect of reflection on learning is mediated by greater perceived self-efficacy. Together, our results shed light on the role View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
there are a few for-profit charter school companies. The schools have their own boards of directors, and usually are not obligated to abide by any collective bargaining agreements that exist for teachers and... View Details