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Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews
By: Gerald R. Faulhaber and Dennis A. Yao
This paper presents a model that permits third-party information provision in a market characterized by information asymmetries and reputation formation. The model is used to examine how the market for information provision affects prices and supply in the primary... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Reputation; SWOT Analysis; Mathematical Methods; Price Bubble; Inflation and Deflation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost; Information; Quality; Price; Competitive Advantage; Information Industry
Faulhaber, Gerald R., and Dennis A. Yao. "Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews." Journal of Industrial Economics 38, no. 1 (September 1989): 65–77. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
There's more in that glass than meets the eye—or the palate. According to Michael Roberto, important strategic differences have bubbled up between winemakers in Europe and those in the "New World"—the U.S., Australia, South... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
they encountered significant skepticism, they decided to roll the dice on a strategy that encompassed both online and bricks and mortar. Despite not having full support of her board, Beck believed this was the right strategy. When the dot.com View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
understand perspectives from other industries and disciplines. It’s also nice to get out of the HBS bubble every once in a while. Henry Tao: I was motivated to apply to the Climate Leaders Program for two main reasons. Firstly, I wanted... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
perfect natural experiment to explore. With the Y2K bubble in the early 2000s, the quota of H1-B visas first increased and then fell sharply, initially expanding and then limiting immigration by skilled workers into the United States.... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to say that "Current P4P model(s) may lead to another economic View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
by the top artistic and commercial photographers of the day, with a focus on advertising and industrial images. Bubbles, Panics & Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s In 1837, 1873, 1907, and 1929, asset price bubbles... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
revealed two additional findings for the company: First, stepping away from the routine has a way of forcing a new perspective and opening up a space for fresh thinking. Bernard says her best big ideas don’t come to her during back-to-back meetings. They View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
in little, closed-information bubbles and echo chambers. They would be open to things that were true, or at least more true, if only they were exposed to them. That’s the easier kind of problem to solve. The harder problem is when people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
call “extreme extrapolation comfort,” which is the belief that if something happens for a little while, it will happen forever. There were times when we should have known we were approaching the subprime debacle, but when, exactly, the View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- Web
Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
pride, bubbles and smoke for transience, among many others, are recurring motifs in these images, and were readily recognizable to the audience of the day. Illustrations of biblical themes ( nos. 27-33 ), mainly from the gospels, are... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
"We'll either be in the middle of another bubble or we'll just be coming off of one." The pace of innovation is one of the most important and exciting questions that tech leaders will need to face, concluded McFarlan. The most... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
Approximately half of Mumbai lives in informal settlements—such as Dharavi (pictured below). These settlements have significantly higher density than the rest of the city and often lack green spaces resulting in 6-8ºC warmer heat bubbles... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
way of stating the VC mantra, “I’d rather back an A team with a B plan than a B team with an A plan.” A plan is a basis for change, and thus navigating and persevering through that change is where the value is created. Navigating the crash of the internet View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to collapse in 1998, threatening the global financial system. The tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
likely contributed to the great recession by inflating the housing and credit bubbles in 2005-2007. But when it comes to sovereign risk, they are getting it right. Across the world, there are many serious threats to the long-term ability... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
companies in Beijing alone. Is there an investment bubble in China? Yes, so our job is to manage, as best we can, through the bubbles. Today in China, there is simply too much investment in young Internet companies, in particular, most of... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
question bubbled up the list: Do the panelists worry about the threat of disintermediation? In other words, once consumers and providers find each other, are they likely to cut out the middle man–that is, the platform they used to find... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
where his passion for entrepreneurship was reignited and he founded a software company, Certant, in 1999 after graduation. Shortly thereafter, the dotcom bubble burst and Certant ran out of funding. However, the co-founders and team... View Details