Two Sided Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jan 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

oversight, and compliance. What Are The Emotional Needs Of People Who Lay Off Fellow Employees? Conducting Layoffs: 'Necessary Evils' at Work "The core challenge for everyone who performs necessary evils comes from having to do two... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Nov 2008
HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

production levels and the potential sale of the ethanol plant in an increasingly competitive, complex environment. "For the first time in history, the food and energy markets are converging," says Reinhardt. "It's hard to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

firms, is to adapt appropriately to market and institutional demands. Central to this challenge are decisions about how best to organize the expertise they marshal to compete. Expertise is organized at two... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

Obstacles facing companies in today's hyper-competitive global markets are seemingly more complex than ever, to the point that managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management, says Robert Hayes. In a new... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

contribution rates differ between employees hired before versus after the Roth introduction, which means that the amount of retirement consumption being purchased by 401(k) contributions increases after the Roth introduction. A survey experiment suggests View Details

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

whereby headquarter locations have been split up and reallocated across the world, and c) the growing importance of non-US markets for US firms. Rather than questioning the loyalties of executives, it is critical to understand these... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

comprehend what they may mean. But other times I know I need help. This is one of those times. Just two decades ago, we didn't have Google and other information sources; storage constraints would not have permitted Google to provide... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

course of four weeks, representatives at two Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites offered filers the option of splitting their refunds, depositing all or some of their refund into an existing or new savings account with the Bank... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

outliers: CEOs who produced outstanding economic and social value. Every successful CEO produces the first, but too few frame the purpose of their firm or behave in a way that illustrates their concern with social value. So we had two... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

intangible resources may be best acquired by following a road of conformity in how your company is organized and presented to the outside world. In start-ups in established industries, conventional business titles such as Marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

precisely pin down the safest loans to back. If platforms limit the amount of information available, the playing field is more level and a wider variety of investors have a better shot at choosing cream-of-the-crop loans. Not your parents’ bank Peer lending View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit. One lesson is clear: Businesses that provide higher-quality service and maintain a solid reputation can become more insulated from market shocks, such as increases in fixed costs. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

by the enormous improvements going on in other countries. It used to be that the wages of US workers rose in line with domestic productivity, but the two became decoupled. Some attribute that to declining unionization. That may be part of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

boot camp, asking participants to break into pairs and have a conversation about the Indian wedding industry. “Everyone in India has experience with the wedding industry,” Koning says. “It’s a giant market and growing fast.” Before the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

developing leaders effective in collaborative, global organizations. True North Groups is also the title of the new book I have written with coauthor Doug Baker, a pioneer in the small-group movement. Having participated in two True North... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

that when given the choice to brag or to humblebrag, it's better to straight-out brag. "When people first join Twitter, one of the first things they notice is that a lot of people humblebrag," says Francesca Gino, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations &... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

Here’s one thing they learned: “Office pairs that lose one or two shared business hours due to [Daylight Savings Time] reduce their total communication volumes by 9.2 percent on average from baseline levels, an effect driven by decreases... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

paradigm to their pursuit of success. They assume they have to anchor their aspirations on some celebrated form of the "best," an essentially limitless standard, to meet even a minimal standard of success. And yet they seek many ends in life. You cannot... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

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