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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
profits. In his first visit to HBS, Corzine spoke in January to a large Burden Hall audience about opportunities in, and the outlook for, the investment banking sector. He predicted good times ahead for the industry amid strong demand for its services as a financial... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
relationship in practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38678 Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—We analyze the incentives for a two-sided View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
specialized intermediaries emerges over decades to address these issues. There might be auction houses for the wholesaling of goods, companies that specialize in gathering price data for various commodities, others that authenticate the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
coming off welfare to avert a potentially large national problem (and a political problem for President Clinton). Intermediary organizations such as local and national nonprofits provided training and helped identify job-ready candidates.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
market, then investors, employees, intermediaries such as law firms and data providers, and the wider capital markets are likely to be knowledgeable about the venturing process and the strategies, financing, support, and exit mechanisms... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market Authors:Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate two competing views of the role of financial service intermediaries in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
"This is an intimately personal transaction, yet in many instances, people don't want to be involved with the ultimate suppliers. It's a market suited to intermediaries such as brokers, lawyers, and agents." The emphasis in... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
collected describes the needs not only of ultimate customers but also of intermediaries such as retailers and wholesalers. Q: What is the most important take-away? What can business leaders start doing now to improve their Value Profit... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
are putting pressure on intermediaries to do more with the companies that they’ve invested in. That’s in both the public and the private markets. And so at this point I don’t think it’s a question of whether this is niche or mainstream.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
the way in which the conflicts of interest between owners and managers of firms are managed by the key intermediary institution of the board of directors. There has been increasing controversy over whether directors are playing the role... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
other content producers. They should consider which intermediaries they let into the channel and under which terms, or better yet, aim to be that intermediary themselves so as to maintain control over... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Vertical Alliance Networks: The Case of University-Biotechnology-Pharmaceutical Alliance Chains Authors:Toby E. Stuart, Salih Zeki Ozdemir, and Waverly W. Ding Periodical:Research Policy 36, no. 4 (May 2007): 477-498 Abstract Many young biotechnology firms act as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert search for an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
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
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
investigates the press's role as a monitor or "watchdog" for accounting fraud. I find that the press fulfills this role by rebroadcasting information from other information intermediaries (analysts, auditors, and lawsuits) and... 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
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
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
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54476 Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace By: Gu, Grace, and Feng Zhu Abstract—As an intermediary improves trust between two sides of its market to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
intermediaries, who assume risk, provide less-than-fully-elastic supply. We show that equilibrium required returns will be "high" in the presence of financing imperfections that make intermediary capital costly. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace