Two Sided Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407062 Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman Harvard Business School Case 407-060 At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 fashion... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

great deal of time in the car." Combining these two things may well make OnStar extremely popular. However, there are several other aspects of OnStar that raise concerns that it might become the 1990s version of Roger Smith's robots.... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

store chain with twenty-four locations in fifteen cities. The traditional consumer model in the market is the family jeweler, he explained, with a relationship between parties carrying on for generations. The consumer in India is far more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

innovation is less likely to occur." Brian Donahue warns that "an assessment of internal controls by management at a point in time is not effective because the organization—and thus internal controls—have already changed to meet the demands of the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

has it, so why is it interesting?" she says. "I think it's pretty sexy plumbing." “There's a tremendous gap between the most IT-savvy firms and the IT laggards” McElheran believes IT has the potential to completely transform the supply View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

17 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 17

allows bank depositors to remain "sleepy": they do not have to pay attention to transient fluctuations in the market value of bank assets. In contrast, shadow banks create money-like claims by giving their investors an early... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

model of financial innovation, in which intermediaries engineer securities with cash flows that investors seek, but modify two assumptions. First, investors (and possibly intermediaries) neglect certain unlikely risks. Second, investors... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

"I think Friedman will cast the longer shadow . . . the expansion of markets has speeded up the process of globalization . . . the corporate power of multinationals has not been as dominant as Galbraith had envisioned." In... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

entrepreneurs can achieve both—the Larry Ellisons of the business world are few and far between. In fact, there is a fundamental tension between the money side and the control side—getting rich often means selling control to investors;... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

-and sometimes contradictory-mindsets that the idea of melding the two seems almost absurd. Moreover, in a culture that counts religious pluralism and the separation of church and state among its most hallowed principles, integrating the... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

school system—and to take action to improve it. There has been much work to do, as Harvard Business School's Stacey Childress details in two case studies. According to Childress, "The New Orleans public school district was already in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

market actors who support them would have only one shot at success, and this would typically be a shot in the dark, given the many uncertainties new ventures face. Evolving commitments are basically the managerial version of a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

process itself can actually shape the realized strategy of the firm. This can include internal reporting structures and incentive systems, but it can also reflect external factors such as capital markets and customers. One of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

tax obligations. Q: You mentioned the dual-book system. Why are firms allowed to report their profits in two different ways to capital markets and tax authorities? A: It is a curious system. Imagine if you... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

investing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees and contractors to implement it. The market capitalization of the company dropped over $100 billion in one day, now roughly back to the pre-crisis level. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

must distinguish these two very different agendas, which present different organizational challenges. As I will develop more fully in my next book, best practice improvement is organizationally much easier to deal with than developing and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

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