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- winter 2009
- Journal Article
Interactivity's Unanticipated Consequences for Markets and Marketing
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as some thought it would, on the model of direct marketing. That model anticipated that marketing, empowered by digital media using rich profiling data, would intrude ever more deeply and more... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interactive Communication; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
Deighton, John A., and Leora Kornfeld. "Interactivity's Unanticipated Consequences for Markets and Marketing." Journal of Interactive Marketing 23, no. 1 (winter 2009): 2–12. (First Runner-up and Winner of an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing in 2009.)
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
some long-term growth for the sake of the short-term interests of some stakeholders, so be it.” Are free trade notions repeatedly victim to short-term thinking? What do you think? Original Column Free trade as a component of a free View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- January 2018 (Revised February 2018)
- Technical Note
Making Markets
Explains how to identify and capitalize on marketplace design opportunities. Defines markets and marketplaces and describes the basic functions of each. Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that... View Details
Keywords: Marketplaces; Two-Sided Markets; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Auctions
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Making Markets." Harvard Business School Technical Note 818-096, January 2018. (Revised February 2018.)
- March–April 1987
- Article
Ideas for Action: The Product Management Audit
By: J. Quelch, P. Farris and J. Olver
- February 2004
- Article
Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: Requiem for the Public Corporation
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: Requiem for the Public Corporation." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 2 (February 2004): 22.
- November 2020
- Article
Taxation in Matching Markets
By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,... View Details
Dupuy, Arnaud, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Taxation in Matching Markets." International Economic Review 61, no. 4 (November 2020): 1591–1634.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Using LLMs for Market Research
By: James Brand, Ayelet Israeli and Donald Ngwe
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly gained popularity as labor-augmenting
tools for programming, writing, and many other processes that benefit from quick text
generation. In this paper we explore the uses and benefits of LLMs for researchers and
practitioners... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; Research; AI and Machine Learning; Analysis; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Brand, James, Ayelet Israeli, and Donald Ngwe. "Using LLMs for Market Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-062, April 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- September 2016 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Casper Sleep Inc.: Marketing the 'One Perfect Mattress for Everyone'
By: Robert J. Dolan
“A Warby Parker of mattresses? Somebody is going to do it. Why not us?”
This was the topic of a conversation begun in spring 2013 among Gabe Flateman, Philip Krim, Neil Parikh, and T. Luke Sherwin. The four met as members of a New York City venture accelerator... View Details
Keywords: Mattress; Sleep; Marketing; Business Model; Marketing Channels; Adoption; Sales; Consumer Products Industry
Dolan, Robert J. "Casper Sleep Inc.: Marketing the 'One Perfect Mattress for Everyone'." Harvard Business School Case 517-042, September 2016. (Revised November 2017.)
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
because, unlike venture capital or seed money, Kickstarter funds aren’t distributed unless a set fundraising goal is met. It also means promises like delivery times are made publicly and tracked by investors, many of whom are not shy about commenting. The View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- February 2012 (Revised June 2012)
- Background Note
The Market for Consumer Finance
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
This note describes the market for consumer finance products in the United States. The note focuses on the changes in supply and demand that have occurred since the mid-20th century, and highlights recent approaches to finance for low-credit rated borrowers. View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets
Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Norris. "The Market for Consumer Finance." Harvard Business School Background Note 312-041, February 2012. (Revised June 2012.)
- 2014
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Marketing Reading: Segmentation and Targeting
By: Sunil Gupta
This Reading introduces two of the integral parts of any marketing strategy: segmentation and targeting. It covers, first, all of the methods, techniques, and variables with which a business first uncovers the full range of its potential customers and then... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Segmentation; Conjoint Analysis; Demographic Segmentation; Geographic Segmentation; Market Opportunities; Market Segmentation; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Psychographic Segmentation; Unethical Marketing Practices; United States
Gupta, Sunil. "Marketing Reading: Segmentation and Targeting." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8219, 2014.
- June 2017 (Revised July 2020)
- Teaching Note
Casper Sleep Inc.: Marketing the 'One Perfect Mattress for Everyone'
By: Robert J. Dolan
Teaching Note for HBS No. 517-042. View Details
- October 2006
- Article
Strategies for Two-Sided Markets
By: T. R. Eisenmann, G. Parker and M. van Alstyne
Eisenmann, T. R., G. Parker, and M. van Alstyne. "Strategies for Two-Sided Markets." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2006).
- June 2020
- Article
U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles
By: Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina
Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle,... View Details
Keywords: Global Business Cycle; Monetary Policy; Reaching For Yield; Money; Policy; Credit; Emerging Markets
Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina. "U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles." Journal of Monetary Economics 112 (June 2020): 57–76.
- December 2013
- Course Overview Note
Digital Marketing Strategy
By: Thales Teixeira
Digital Marketing Strategy is the process by which firms employ, either partially or exclusively, digital tools, techniques, and tactics to create value for customers. View Details
Teixeira, Thales. "Digital Marketing Strategy." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 514-087, December 2013.
- May 1984 (Revised September 1986)
- Background Note
Basic Quantitative Analysis for Marketing
By: Robert J. Dolan
Shows how to calculate and use the break-even volume in marketing decision making. View Details
Dolan, Robert J. "Basic Quantitative Analysis for Marketing." Harvard Business School Background Note 584-149, May 1984. (Revised September 1986.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Farsighted Stability for Roommate Markets
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus, Flip Klijn and Markus Walzl
Using a bi-choice graph technique (Klaus and Klijn, 2009), we show that a matching for a roommate market indirectly dominates another matching if and only if no blocking pair of the former is matched in the latter (Proposition 1). Using this characterization of... View Details
Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, Flip Klijn, and Markus Walzl. "Farsighted Stability for Roommate Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-135, May 2009.
- Teaching Interest
Marketing Strategies for Profitable Growth—China
By: John A. Deighton
Maintaining quality standards and sustaining profitable growth in China's rapidly evolving marketplace requires powerful marketing strategies that enable organizations to build and nurture long-term customer relationships. To help... View Details
- December 2009
- Teaching Note
TruEarth Healthy Foods: Market Research for a New Product Introduction (Brief Case)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sunru Yong
Teaching Note for 4065. View Details
- Article
The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms... View Details
Coles, Peter A., John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried. "The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective." Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, no. 4 (Fall 2010): 187–206.