Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (854) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (854) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (854)
    • News  (220)
    • Research  (549)
    • Events  (7)
    • Multimedia  (10)
  • Faculty Publications  (363)

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (854)
    • News  (220)
    • Research  (549)
    • Events  (7)
    • Multimedia  (10)
  • Faculty Publications  (363)
← Page 2 of 854 Results →
  • 20 Jan 2014
  • News

Online marketplaces may encourage bias

  • January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Teaching Note

Ureed.com: The Marketplace for Language

By: Ashley V. Whillans
This case explores the growth of Ureed, an online marketplace for translation services that is powered by a workforce consisting of remote freelancers who are based in the United Arab Emirates. Nour Al Hassan, the founder and CEO faced the challenge of how best to... View Details
Keywords: Language Translation; Freelancers; Remote Work; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Job Design and Levels
Citation
Purchase
Related
Whillans, Ashley V. "Ureed.com: The Marketplace for Language." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-028, January 2021. (Revised March 2022.)
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Marketplace of Perceptions

    Flipkart: Transitioning to a Marketplace Model

    Founded in 2007 as an online book retailer, Flipkart rapidly became the largest e-commerce player in India, valued at almost $15 billion.  However, it faced intense competition from other e-commerce players like Amazon and Snapdeal. Over the years Flipkart was slowly... View Details
    • September 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Investing in Online Marketplaces

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Hermes Alvarez
    Citation
    Purchase
    Related
    Hagiu, Andrei, and Hermes Alvarez. "Investing in Online Marketplaces." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 715-415, September 2014.
    • March 2021
    • Exercise

    Marketplace Analysis Exercise

    By: Scott Duke Kominers
    Citation
    Purchase
    Related
    Kominers, Scott Duke. "Marketplace Analysis Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 821-118, March 2021.
    • 20 Nov 2018
    • News

    Building a Nonprofit Marketplace to Feed America

    • March 2022 (Revised August 2022)
    • Case

    LooksRare: The Decentralized, Tokenized, NFT Marketplace

    By: Scott Duke Kominers, Shai Bernstein and George Gonzalez
    LooksRare launched a decentralized and anonymous organization to compete against NFT marketplace leader OpenSea. By launching its own cryptocurrency, LooksRare attempted to lure users with a digital rewards program. The nature of the organization and its business... View Details
    Keywords: NFTs; Alternative Assets; Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Customer Relationship Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business Model; Marketing
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Kominers, Scott Duke, Shai Bernstein, and George Gonzalez. "LooksRare: The Decentralized, Tokenized, NFT Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 822-119, March 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
    • November, 2016
    • Article

    Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

    By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca
    Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender
    Citation
    Find at Harvard
    Register to Read
    Related
    Fisman, Ray, and Michael Luca. "Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 12 (November, 2016): 88–95.
    • 26 Jan 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment

    Keywords: by Jin Li, Gary P. Pisano, and Feng Zhu
    • August 2001 (Revised September 2005)
    • Case

    eBay (A): The Customer Marketplace

    By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
    eBay, the popular Internet-based consumer-to-consumer marketplace, has recently become attractive to corporate customers. According to a vocal subset of eBay customers, the company has lost its way and is set to forsake its traditional business. Told from the... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Trust; Internet; Web Services Industry
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Frei, Frances X., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "eBay (A): The Customer Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 602-071, August 2001. (Revised September 2005.)

      Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

      In the late 1980s, law professors Ian Ayres and Peter Siegelman set out to learn whether blacks and women got the same deals as white men when buying a new car. They trained 38 people—some white and some black, some male and some female—to negotiate a purchase using a... View Details
      • 31 Aug 2011
      • News

      The Nuances of Marketplaces

      • 08 Nov 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

      work and how the parts fit together. We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with." In short, Roth has determined that successful marketplaces require three key elements. "They must be thick,... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
      • October 2000 (Revised March 2001)
      • Case

      eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kristin Kohler
      Launched as an eBay for services, eLance promises to leverage the capabilities of the Internet to not only change the way services are bought and sold, but change the fundamental dynamics of the global economy. Building on theories posited in the HBR article by Tim... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Job Search; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Web Sites; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Related
      Applegate, Lynda M., and Kristin Kohler. "eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 801-224, October 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
      • June 2010
      • Article

      The Pathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces

      By: Benjamin Edelman
      Display advertising marketplaces place "banner" ads on all manner of popular sites. While these services are widely used, they suffer significant challenges, including weak user response and low accountability for both advertisers and web site publishers. I survey a... View Details
      Keywords: Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Online Advertising; Cost; Corporate Accountability; Information Publishing; Consumer Behavior; Relationships; Web Sites
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Read Now
      Related
      Edelman, Benjamin. "The Pathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces." Art. 2. ACM SIGecom Exchanges (June 2010).
      • May 2019 (Revised May 2020)
      • Case

      fidentiaX: The Tradable Insurance Marketplace on Blockchain

      By: Alexander Braun, Lauren H. Cohen and Jiahua Xu
      Three years ago, Alvin Ang and his partner founded fidentiaX in Singapore, with the ambition to create the world’s first marketplace for tradable insurance policies on blockchain. With a 26-page white paper, the start-up closed a successful fundraising round through an... View Details
      Keywords: Blockchain; Insurance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Insurance Industry; Technology Industry; Singapore
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Braun, Alexander, Lauren H. Cohen, and Jiahua Xu. "fidentiaX: The Tradable Insurance Marketplace on Blockchain." Harvard Business School Case 219-116, May 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

      By: Alvin E. Roth
      This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by large law firms and for gastroenterology fellows, and the market for post-season college football bowls. Together these will illustrate... View Details
      Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Market Timing; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Competitive Strategy
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Roth, Alvin E. "Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16556, November 2010.
      • July 2023
      • Article

      Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment

      By: Jin Li, Gary Pisano, Richard Xu and Feng Zhu
      The scalability of a marketplace depends on the operations of the marketplace platform as well as its sellers’ capacities. In this study, we explore one strategy that a marketplace platform can use to enhance its scalability: providing an ancillary service to sellers.... View Details
      Keywords: Two-sided Platforms; Services; Digital Platforms
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Read Now
      Purchase
      Related
      Li, Jin, Gary Pisano, Richard Xu, and Feng Zhu. "Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment." Management Science 69, no. 7 (July 2023): 3958–3975.
      • June 2022
      • Case

      Worten Portugal: Becoming a Digital Marketplace

      By: Antonio Moreno, Pedro Amorim and Tonia Labruyere
      With Amazon's entry into Portugal, Miguel Mota Freitas, CEO of Portuguese electronics chain Worten, is reflecting on their strategy of building a competitive marketplace. View Details
      Keywords: Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Logistics; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry; Portugal; Spain
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Moreno, Antonio, Pedro Amorim, and Tonia Labruyere. "Worten Portugal: Becoming a Digital Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 622-062, June 2022.
      • ←
      • 2
      • 3
      • …
      • 42
      • 43
      • →
      ǁ
      Campus Map
      Harvard Business School
      Soldiers Field
      Boston, MA 02163
      →Map & Directions
      →More Contact Information
      • Make a Gift
      • Site Map
      • Jobs
      • Harvard University
      • Trademarks
      • Policies
      • Accessibility
      • Digital Accessibility
      Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.