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- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Harvard Business School’s exploration of the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has reached an important milestone. This month the Creating Emerging Markets project will publish interviews 100 and 101... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
Wulf, Julie. "Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72, no. 1 (October 2009): 305–321.
- February 2023
- Case
Nexus Market (A): Ukraine War Ripples into Silicon Valley
By: Tsedal Neeley and Jeff Huizinga
A Silicon Valley start-up executive must navigate tensions between its Ukrainian and Russian sub-contractors as war between the two countries rages. After war erupts between Ukraine and Russia, a team of subcontracted Ukrainian software developers threatens to cut ties... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry; United States
Neeley, Tsedal, and Jeff Huizinga. "Nexus Market (A): Ukraine War Ripples into Silicon Valley." Harvard Business School Case 423-024, February 2023.
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
they should. It’s like two covers of a big book.” That continued faith in the markets is what drives Jones. “It’s what I hope my impact will be,” she says. “The market crash in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
touchdown—a climactic capper on one of the most exciting college football games ever. The play put BC on the map for college aspirants. In two years, applications had shot up 30 percent. Ever since, View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
Do U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies
By: Joseph J. Gerakos, Joseph D. Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan
This paper examines the extent that interactions with U.S. markets impact the compensation practices of non-U.S. firms. Using a sample of large U.K. companies, we find that the total compensation of U.K. CEOs is positively related to the extent of the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Management Practices and Processes; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States
Gerakos, Joseph J., Joseph D. Piotroski, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Do U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-075, January 2011.
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
What Tech Pioneers Can Learn From Emerging Markets
- 2024
- Working Paper
A Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism?
By: Paula Rettl, Diane Bolet, Catherine E. De Vries, Simone Cremaschi, Tarik Abou-Chadi and Sergi Pardos-Prado
The growing participation of women in the labor market has marked a significant societal transformation, coinciding with the rise of gender conservatism and far-right support. We study whether the economic consequences of labor market feminization and gender backlash... View Details
Keywords: Gender Bias; Gender Equality; Gender Inclusivity; Politics; Political Backlash; Political Culture; Conservatism; Gender; Government and Politics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Labor
Rettl, Paula, Diane Bolet, Catherine E. De Vries, Simone Cremaschi, Tarik Abou-Chadi, and Sergi Pardos-Prado. "A Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-022, November 2024.
- 2008
- Article
Market Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities
By: Kristina Steffenson McElheran
This study focuses on whether more-productive firms are more likely to adopt process innovations and why. The empirical context is the adoption of e-business practices among U.S. manufacturing plants in early 2000. Based on detailed data from the U.S. Census of... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry; United States
McElheran, Kristina Steffenson. "Market Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2008): 1–6p, 4 charts. (Finalist for the 2008 Best Paper Award presented by Academy of Management, TIM Division.)
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
care of the other brother's family, but instead, George's branch accused Mike's branch of defrauding them out of their shares in the company. The two branches went to war. A buyout was proposed, but the two... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
Serafeim, the report’s author. “An increase in a firm’s ESG performance has nearly two to three times the effect on a firm’s market valuation for a firm with positive relative to a firm with negative public... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices
By: Ishita Sen, Umang Khetan, Jane Li and Ioana Neamtu
We study the extent of interest rate risk sharing across the financial system using granular positions and transactions data in interest rate swaps. We show that pension and insurance (PF&I) sector emerges as a natural counterparty to banks and corporations: overall,... View Details
Keywords: Interest Rates; Investment Funds; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Investment Banking; Risk and Uncertainty
Sen, Ishita, Umang Khetan, Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-052, February 2024.
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
multimillion dollar investment to launch SUEDE, the first fashion-content-platform brand serving multicultural women. Success at HBS came in and out of the classroom. Mirror Digital got its startup funding from the HBS Angel Investors Association, and today View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell
We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP), and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an underfunded second mover in... View Details
Keywords: Platform Design; Betting; Digital Platforms; Design; Network Effects; Business Model; Competition; Cooperation; Market Entry and Exit
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Neil Campbell. "Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-057, November 2018.
- Article
Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell
We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP) and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an underfunded second mover in... View Details
Keywords: Platform Design; Betting; Complements; Competing Business Models; Co-opetition; Entry; Multi-Sided Platforms; Design; Network Effects; Business Model; Competition; Cooperation
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Neil Campbell. "Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting." Special Issue on Platforms. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 28, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 29–40.
- Fast Answer
Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research
What resources should I use to formulate a stock pitch? Research Topics Suggested Resources Company Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Foundation did a good bit of work in creating the Meth Project back in 2005, and that was created by Tom Siebel. Tom Siebel was a marketing guy who had been the number two person at Oracle and had created... View Details
- 28 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?
- Web
Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
media 4-5 hrs Module 4 Strategies for Growth and Closing Analyze your go-to-market strategy, evaluate the relationship between business models and growth, and assess growth options in two dimensions: markets... View Details
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
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