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  • 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
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

competitions to be made. Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Hybrid_Japan.pdf Intermediary Functions and the Market for Innovation in Meiji and Taishō Japan Authors:Nicholas, Tom, and Hiroshi Shimizu Publication:Business History... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

don’t have to go through an intermediary to access these choices. Some people would contend that the consumer has more control.” Similarly, consumers can have a greater say over how their financial assets are managed—from opting for a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

Mukti Khaire and Eleanor KenyonHarvard Business School Case 812-051 The Sundance case raises the question of how markets for innovative cultural products can be created and what the role of intermediaries in creative industries ought to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using dangerously large volumes of runnable short-term liabilities. Specifically, we make the case that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of successors; the role of market View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

complexities into the expansion plans of this entrepreneurial firm. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910404-PDF-ENG IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries John D. Macomber and Viraal BalsariHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

beliefs about the future potential of the venture. This adaptation and related entry by new financial intermediaries has led to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

encompass a more active role as an intermediary (like eBay) facilitating transactions; or challenge Microsoft's position on the PC desktop by developing software to compete with Office and Windows. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 19 Feb 2019
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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
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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
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

endorsement opportunities from Electronic Arts, 2K Games, and Xbox Live to add to his portfolio. Allows for a rich discussion about how superstar athletes and other celebrities can create and capture value from their brands as well as what role talent agencies and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where initial experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. This adaptation and related entry by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2013
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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
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Sep 2018
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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
  • 28 Apr 2009
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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
  • 05 Apr 2011
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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

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