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- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
intermediaries that specialize in screening ideas. These findings have implications for other parties involved in the market for ideas, Luo explains. For example, the timing of the sale is found to be an important indication of quality.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
for them. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209104 Ocean Tomo: Building a Market for Intellectual Property Harvard Business School Case 709-404 Ocean Tomo's management team sought to turn the company into the leading View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary markets: the "cannibalization" and "option value" effects. Separation between primary and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has carefully analyzed their incentives, but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
latent or explicit. It involves branding these products and services, communicating their benefits to intermediaries and end consumers, and distributing them. All of these activities involve value creation. In return, producers extract... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
intermediary to divert consumers to its favored destinations. Applied to Internet search engines, we investigate a diversion mechanism based on Google's exclusive award of preferential placement to its own services. Using web traffic data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Foundation, focused on building the organizational capabilities of nonprofits that served the disadvantaged youth in the United States, has recently been named an intermediary in the federal government's new social innovation fund (SIF),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
settings in which each agent can be both a buyer in some transactions and a seller in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
trying to get rid of intermediaries, one could figure out how to become one. "We talk about Variety, we talk about Sundance; they don't actually make films but are integral to creating a market for them. You can't imagine the film industry now without the Sundance... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
environmental benefits while also generating a financial return. Recent reports have estimated a global market of at least $500 billion in the next decade. The note discusses the role of the various players such as impact investors, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
over a short lunch, set aside an entire morning—remember, you've already decided that these talks are important. If someone catches you off guard and launches into discussions on the fly, ask to reschedule the conversation for a later time or date. Real estate agents... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
geographic reach? Each of these growth options offers opportunities and entails costs. Swart considers each of these in turn. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411078-PDF-ENG Intellectual Property intermediaries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
the intermediaries advising or providing capital to these firms must all increasingly wrestle with these questions. Recent waves of globalization have had several distinct effects on firms that have not been addressed by many academics.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
disconnect between the shippers (demand) and truck owners (supply), had created a layer of intermediaries (brokers) for transporting goods. The founders saw an opportunity in creating an online marketplace for freight—and uniting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
week, with blockchain it could happen in seconds. Blockchain could slash the cost of transactions and eliminate intermediaries like lawyers and bankers, and that could transform the economy. But, like the adoption of more Internet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
address pollution. IVL developed an important role as knowledge producer and as an intermediary of environmental knowledge between the late 1960s and the 1980s. The proactive response of Swedish big business is shown to have been based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
"Consequently, the intermediaries in the financial services industry—the brokers—are really going to be affected. Having said that, however, I believe there will always be people who want personal interaction with a broker."... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
rerouting through intermediary countries, pointing to an increase in imports from China and a corresponding rise in exports to the United States since 2018 in countries like Vietnam and Mexico as evidence. Due to these concerns, some... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
jurists, including Louis Brandeis and institutional economist E.R.A. Seligman, supported RPM as a protection to independent proprietors. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed businesspeople to act as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne