Intermediaries - Publications - Faculty & Research

Paul M. Healy

Paul Healy is the James R. Williston Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research covers a broad range of topics, including white collar crime, governance, business ethics, financial analysis, and Wall Street research. He joined the HBS faculty in 1998,... View Details

Keywords: accounting industry; brokerage; pharmaceuticals

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Business History - Faculty & Research

safety, morals, and health could be protected. Article Intermediary Functions and the Market for Innovation in Meiji and Taisho Japan By: Tom Nicholas and Hiroshi Shimizu Japan experienced a transformational phase of technological... View Details

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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

(the quintessential two-sided platform) must serve both men and women. Q: Please give some examples of these markets. A: Examples are pervasive in today's economy and range from dating clubs (men and women), financial exchanges, real estate listings, online View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

intermediaries , financial reporting , financial statement analysis Interviews Kutayba Alghanim Nien-he Hsieh Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration Research Interests : corporate accountability , corporate governance ,... View Details

03 May 2023
Blog Post

Five Ways to Build Community at HBS

hours for fellow admits during the spring. By the end of our series of 13 calls, I was surprised how many people reached out to share that they decided to become roommates after chatting on my calls, or decided to travel with someone they met on a call. Acting as this... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Info Segmented Arbitrage By: Adi Sunderam , Emil Siriwardane & Jonathan Wallen NOV 2021 Financial intermediaries play a key role in determining asset prices. The authors use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange... View Details

28 Sep 2023
News

Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

Clubs News Clubs News Guided by Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the HBS Global Alumni Clubs & Associations Network provides thousands of opportunities to create and strengthen connections among and between HBS... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service

Dwight B. Crane

Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance. He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently... View Details

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

factor in negotiation? You might provide references from mutually trusted third parties that vouch for your character and competence. If appropriate, a third party could communicate with the other side prior to the negotiation—as in the RLX example—or even serve as an... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana

In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details

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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

January 2016
Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details

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11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

being a modest market for British textiles into an expanding market not only for textiles, but for British iron and steel, machinery and coal. 1 However the transport and communication improvements also threatened merchant intermediaries... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

until another collapse, funds of funds will be considered suitable investments. The bank is an intermediary between the investor and the hedge fund. The bank pretends to place a cordon of safety, of conservative investing, around its... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

a major financial institution following the financial crisis, including an analysis of core products: green bonds, ESG-based equity research, and a variety of advisory products. Key Themes: Intermediaries have a tremendous impact on and... View Details

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C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection | About

Schwartz Common | Learn More Lynda Benglis Cloak-Wave Pedmarks, 1998 — Schwartz Common | Learn More Bharti Kher The Intermediary Family, 2018 — Executive Education Lawn | Learn More 2018 – 2019 This exhibition, which was on view from... View Details

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

intermediaries is largely an information and incentive problem. Once you understand that, you can then really appreciate what all the different players are doing. Gerdeman: In terms of determining how a company is doing, you describe how... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2022
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Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

First, the supply chain in health care is a mess. There are so many intermediaries selling to other people, and Amazon has done extremely well by streamlining the supply chain. So they must be thinking that the current insurers and other... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

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Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

October 28, 2022 deadline. Applicants are accepted based on meeting all the requirements, and the Institute reserves the right to accept or decline any application. The Institute does not offer exclusivity to affiliate institutions in their region or country. No... View Details

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