Disintermediation - Publications - Faculty & Research

2016
Working Paper

The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas

Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Executive Education; Disruption; Management Skills

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The Role of Information Technology in the Provision of Services

By: James I. Cash

James I. Cash, Jr. is exploring the role of information technology in service management. Specifically, he is studying the implications of the ubiquity of information technology at three levels in service-providing organizations. (In the United States today, service... View Details

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Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Changing consumer behaviors have redefined what it means to be direct to consumer ("DTC"). What once began online a decade ago as a distribution and disintermediation strategy has since evolved into a multifaceted approach for the modern-day brand.

The... View Details

Teaching Interest

Digital Marketing Strategy

By: John A. Deighton

When the tools of marketing change, strategies change too. The focus of this course is on firms trying to navigate the transition from offline to online market-making and strategy development. Our concern is primarily with corporations that have products and... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Unlocking the Power of Community

altering the way we perceive and interact with the art of tattooing. “What’s great about blockchain technology is that it’s really meant to be a disintermediated technology; in other words, it allows for direct relationships,” Fung says.... View Details

Keywords: April White

Portrait Project

Srivatsa Krishna

previous life and work, as the head of a large city government I tried doing so using unusual tools- by courting foreign investments which brought growth, jobs and competition and by implementing innovative e-government solutions, which led to large scale View Details

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

scattered everywhere. John Quelch discusses approaches to integrate patient data so that medical professionals and patients can make better decisions. Related Research Papers How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data Most current talk about “big data” seems to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

will be a combination of case discussions, guests, panels, and workshops. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the finance world by disintermediate... View Details

12 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

that as a philanthropist, impact investor, board member, employee or corporate partner. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate Faculty: Marco Di Maggio The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the finance world by View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 12 Dec 2019
Webinars: Career

From Private Equity to Private Debt: Key Trends in Alternative Investments

Private equity industry has expanded substantially to include new strategies, new players, and new funding models. Professor Victoria Ivashina will explore new trends, limits to disintermediation, growth potential, and what to keep in mind if you are exploring these... View Details

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

is just one of many dilemmas that can incite insomnia in a sharing-economy platform provider. There’s also the threat of disintermediation between producers and consumers; the fear of trying to compete in a winner-take-all market; and the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

01 Feb 2000
News

He Begs to Differentiate

Sorrell also noted the irony of investment professionals with "all their portfolios in traditional businesses, who are now running hotfoot to invest in all these new models that threaten to destabilize and disintermediate all these... View Details

02 Feb 2022
News

AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say

recruiters. “I love humans,” Polli, told The Journal. ”I don’t think we should be, you know, disintermediating humans anytime soon. [But] there’s no research that supports the idea that humans are unbiased.” Polli previously shared the... View Details

Web

Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

by changing its network clustering structures Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it might generate strong network effects to scale Module Capstone: Picabuu 6 hrs Module 3 Scaling and Sustaining a Platform (Part 2) Understand the chicken-or-egg problem and View Details

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516092-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-004 Disintermediation in Two-Sided Marketplaces Two-sided marketplaces often risk disintermediation: users... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

trust, the two sides may circumvent the intermediary to avoid the intermediary’s fees. We investigate the relationship between increased trust and disintermediation by leveraging a randomized control trial on a major online freelance... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

concerns about the unobservable consequences of policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51704 Harvard Business School Case 217-007 Disintermediating the Banks: ThinCats and the Peer-to-Peer Lending... View Details

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199694945.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199694945-e-026 September 2014 Journal of Financial Economics The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity By:... View Details