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  • 04 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda
  • October 2020
  • Article

Comparative Statics for Size-Dependent Discounts in Matching Markets

By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexandru Nichifor
We prove a natural comparative static for many-to-many matching markets in which agents’ choice functions exhibit size-dependent discounts: reducing the extent to which some agent discounts additional partners leads to improved outcomes for the agents on the other side... View Details
Keywords: Size-dependent Discounts; Path-independence; Respect For Improvements; Market Design; Mathematical Methods
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  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

primary objectives of screening investment or negotiating with investors. These agencies had the flexibility to attract personnel with the marketing expertise successful investment promotion requires. In addition, they were able to obtain... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top... View Details
Keywords: Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Design
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  • August 2015
  • Article

Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

By: Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz
We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the... View Details
Keywords: Externalities; Intermediaries; Market Design; Internet; Web Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • December 2004 (Revised February 2005)
  • Case

Exporting Spanish Olive Oil to the U.S. Market

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Hal Hogan and Miguel Angel Llano Irusta
Spain is the largest olive oil producer, yet it sells much of its product to Italy, where it is repackaged as Italian olive oil. The decision maker in the case wants to develop Spain as the olive oil leader not just in production but in quality and value added. He... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Trade; Goods and Commodities; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Brands and Branding; Decisions; Customization and Personalization; Product Design; Product Development; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain; United States; Italy
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  • 01 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The HBS Alumni Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on “The Future of Market Capitalism.” The Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the event. BOWER: On the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Web

About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

About the Project View Video Creating Emerging Markets explores the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. At its core are interviews, with leaders or former leaders of highly impactful... View Details
  • 1995
  • Dissertation

The Economics of Experimentation in the Design of New Products and Processes

By: Stefan Thomke
Keywords: Economics; Research and Development; Operations; Product Launch
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  • Web

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Explore Summer Research at HBS A 10-week program for undergraduates who wish to work closely with Harvard Business School faculty on research projects on topics ranging from business... View Details
  • October 2017
  • Case

Updating Dating

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam
To identify design ideas for their own startup, two MBAs compare the different profiling, matching, and monetization approaches employed by five incumbent dating services: Coffee Meets Bagel, OKCupid, Jiayuan, Dating Ring, and HurryDate. View Details
Keywords: Marketplace Design; Dating Services; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; United States; China
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Performance and Control across Multiple Markets

By: Tatiana Sandino, Dennis Campbell and Shelby Yu
Chain organizations typically operate units across different types of markets, with significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion potentially influences performance through two channels: it makes performance a noisier indicator of store manager... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Organizational Design; Markets; Franchise Ownership; Performance; Retail Industry
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  • October 2009
  • Article

Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market

By: Julie Wulf
I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Capital Budgeting; Business Headquarters; Investment; Opportunities; Cost; Value; Motivation and Incentives; Equity
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  • Web

Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets

Institute of Management Ahmedabad's Archives on India is a digital public good that compiles and maps over 500+ physical and digital archives and repositories relevant to the history and cultural heritage of the Indian subcontinent. This tool is View Details
  • Web

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students May 2025 Article Punitive but Discerning: Reputation Can Fuel Ambiguously-Deserved Punishment, but Does Not Erode... View Details
  • Web

In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

on a new website by the Business History Initiative. Ritu Kumar Featured in Harvard Business School Study The iconic fashion designer Ritu Kumar has become one of the first Indian women entrepreneurs to be featured in the Harvard Business... View Details

    Using AI to Adjust Your Marketing and Sales in a Volatile World

    Why are some firms better and faster than others at adapting their use of customer data to respond to changing or uncertain marketing conditions? A common thread across faster-acting firms is the use of AI models to predict outcomes at various stages of the customer... View Details

    • September 2007 (Revised November 2007)
    • Case

    Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets

    By: Tarun Khanna, Santiago Mingo and Jonathan West
    In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of three very integrated worldwide agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Operations; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; White Plains; Brazil
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    • 17 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

    your order.” Gender-tailored marketing messages from these brands and others—including Mangria and Pink Power tools—are common, yet new research shows they can turn off consumers, particularly women. In fact, they often backfire to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products