Publications

September – October 1972
Article

Pyrrhic Victories in Fights for Market Share

By: W. E. Fruhan Jr.

Keywords: Markets

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January 2019 (Revised June 2020)
Case

Market for Judgement: The Creative Destruction Lab

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Hong Luo and Laura Katsnelson

June 2025
Article

Collusion in Brokered Markets

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery

High commissions in the U.S. residential real estate agency market present a puzzle for economic theory because brokerage is not a concentrated industry. We model brokered markets as a game in which agents post prices for customers and then choose which other agents to... View Details

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14 Nov 2012
News

Wonks dust off radical revenue-raising ideas

22 Mar 2016
News

Why Meeting a First Date for Breakfast Might not Be a Bad Idea

August 1984 (Revised October 1992)
Background Note

Marketing Implementation

By: John A. Quelch

Describes a framework for evaluating marketing implementation problems and assesses the interfaces between marketing strategy and implementation. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy

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... View Details

fall 1999
Article

The Evolving Market for Catastrophe Event Risk

By: K. A. Froot

Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Insurance Industry

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April–May 2005
Article

Markets for Partially-Contractible Knowledge: Bootstrapping Versus Bundling

By: James J Anton and Dennis A. Yao

We discuss how a seller can appropriate rents when selling knowledge that lacks legal property rights by solving either an expropriation or a valuation problem and then analyze how seller rents increase when a portion of the intellectual property (IP) can be protected.... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge; Markets; Rights; Valuation; Problems and Challenges; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Intellectual Property; Strategy

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03 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Michael Schwarz; Publishing

06 Mar 2013
News

The Public Has No Idea How Much Of A Threat Emerging Markets Are To The US

April 2018
Supplement

Flipkart (B): The Ongoing Battle for India's E-Commerce Market

By: Sunil Gupta, Das Narayandas and Rachna Tahilyani

In 2017, both Flipkart and Amazon claimed leadership position in India's recently concluded key annual festive season sale, but it was too early to declare victory. Amazon continues to invest heavily in India. Competition from newer players is increasing. Media reports... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Competition; Retail Industry; India

June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
Background Note

Market Efficiency

By: Joshua D. Coval, Erik Stafford, Rodrigo Osmo, John Jernigan, Zachary Page and Paul Passoni

Covers how prices react to information, the incentives for bringing information into prices, and the paradox of market efficiency in equilibrium--for investors to work hard keeping markets efficient, they must always be somewhat inefficient at the margin. Uses separate... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Price

Research Summary

Marketing and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets

In his research on pharmaceutical markets, Professor King explores how marketing and product differentiation affect competition among firms in the prescription market for anti-ulcer drugs. Four main results emerge from an analysis of antiulcer drug sales from 1977 to... View Details

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

advertising of marijuana, retail storefronts in Denver, Vail, and other ski towns have become the marketing battleground—featuring attractive sales staff in quality retail spaces in prime locations for foot... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

Article

Market Mechanisms for Newborn Health in Nepal

By: Karsten Lunze, Rosie Dawkins, Abeezer Tapia, Sidharth Anand, Michael Chu and David E. Bloom