Publications

28 May 2025
News

James Bedford Wins Dean's Award for Service to the School and Society

March 2008
Course Overview Note

Dynamic Markets

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

The Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School is organized around the hands-on application of financial decision making in a wide variety of capital market settings. The course relies heavily on in-class simulations of a range of market settings where students... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Decision Making; Capital Markets; Competitive Strategy; Profit; Applications and Software; Information; Strategy; Price; Outcome or Result; Curriculum and Courses; Theory

26 Nov 2008
News

Professor Thomas McCraw Honored by International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society

April 1981 (Revised October 1982)
Supplement

Note on Marketing Arithmetic and Related Marketing Terms, Answers to Exercises

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Supplements the note. View Details

Keywords: Marketing

Purchase

Clubs

Marketing Club

Keywords: Marketing; Marketing

2024
Working Paper

Internal and External Capital Markets of Large Banks

By: Lina Lu, Marco Macchiavelli and Jonathan Wallen

Despite regulatory restrictions, large U.S. bank holding companies have sizable and dynamic internal capital markets. They raise long-term debt at the holding company and deposits at the commercial bank to internally make unsecured loans to affiliated broker-dealers.... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; International Finance; Financial Markets

Research Summary

Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets

This paper develops a model of local unraveling (or early hiring) in entry-level labor markets. Information about workers' productivity is revealed over time and transmitted credibly via a two-sided network connecting firms and workers. While employment starts only... View Details

21 Jun 2016
Other Presentation

Defining Innovative Approaches to Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth

By: Michael E. Porter

Nestle's CSV global forum entitled 'Investing in Sustainable Development in Africa,' brought together business, civil society and government leaders from Africa and beyond to discuss a range of key topics affecting the African continent. This video clip highlights some... View Details

Keywords: Society; Africa; Shared Value; Côte D'Ivoire; Civil Society or Community; Environmental Sustainability; Economic Growth; Africa

Forthcoming
Chapter

Media & Entertainment in Argentina: Doing Business in a Fragmented Society

By: Luciana Silvestri and Roberto Vassolo

We explore the issues of vertical and horizontal fragmentation in Argentina by examining how consumers relate to media and entertainment content and technologies. We focus on belly-of-the-market consumers (the most affluent at the bottom of the pyramid) and observe the... View Details

Keywords: Demographics; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Argentina

April 2000
Background Note

Market Failures

By: Bharat N. Anand, Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin

Examines the role of transaction costs in impeding the functioning of markets and shows how the concept of transaction costs sheds light on a broad range of issues in strategy. View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Cost; Market Transactions; Industry Clusters; Failure; Internet

Educators

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1985
Book

Marketing Management: Principles, Analysis and Applications

By: B. P. Shapiro, R. J. Dolan and J. Quelch

Keywords: Marketing; Management; Theory

1995
Book

Global Marketing Management: Cases and Readings

By: Robert D. Buzzell, John A. Quelch and Christopher A. Bartlett

Keywords: Globalization; Marketing; Management

May 2011
Other Presentation

Creating Shared Value: Redefining Capitalism and the Role of the Corporation in Society

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); ―What is Strategy? (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition... View Details

Keywords: Society; Chile

09 Apr 2024
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

July–August 2020
Article

Price Bargaining and Competition in Online Platforms: An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Deal Market

By: Lingling Zhang and Doug J. Chung

The prevalence of online platforms opens new doors to traditional businesses for customer reach and revenue growth. This research investigates platform choice in a setting where prices are determined by negotiations between platforms and businesses. We compile a unique... View Details

Keywords: Business-to-business Marketing; Platform Competition; Two-Sided Markets; Price Bargaining; Daily Deals; Structural Model; Digital Platforms; Competition; Price; Negotiation