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  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
  • 26 May 2013
  • News

An Auction? Most EBay Users Don't Have Time for That

  • October 2001
  • Supplement

Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
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  • 13 Jul 2021
  • News

Strategies for Underdogs: How Alibaba’s Taobao Beat eBay in China

  • 01 Oct 2014
  • News

Why EBay Decided to Follow Carl Icahn’s Advice on PayPal

  • October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
  • Case

Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
A week after becoming country manager of eBay's recently acquired German auction site, Philipp Justus must steer the company through a massive technical integration with eBay's Web site. Throughout the seven-month project, Justus and his team must master the challenge... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Auctions; Retail Industry; Information Technology Industry; Germany
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  • May 2017 (Revised October 2017)
  • Teaching Note

eBay vs. Carl Icahn, 2014, and A Note on Activist Investors and the Tech Sector

By: David B. Yoffie and Eric Baldwin
Teaching note to accompany eBay vs. Carl Icahn, 2014, HBS Case #717-417; eBay vs. Carl Icahn, 2014: Interview with John Donahoe, eBay CEO 2008-2015; A Note on Activist Investors and the Tech Section HBS Case #716-462 View Details
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  • January 2010 (Revised February 2015)
  • Teaching Note

eBay Partner Network (A), (B), (C), and (D)

By: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin
Teaching Note for [910008], [910009], [910012], and [914016]. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Networks; Information Technology Industry
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  • 13 Jul 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

Strategies for Underdogs: How Alibaba’s Taobao Beat eBay in China

Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Retail; Technology
  • 31 May 2013
  • News

Meg Whitman Jolts HP as Its Reluctant Savior

Keywords: HP, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, eBay; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • September 2002
  • Article

Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet

By: Alvin E. Roth and Axel Ockenfels
Keywords: Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Internet and the Web
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  • June 2016 (Revised March 2017)
  • Technical Note

Disintermediation in Two-Sided Marketplaces

By: Benjamin Edelman and Philip Hu
Two-sided marketplaces often risk disintermediation: users may rely on the marketplace to find each other but then perform related future transactions—or even the current transaction—without the platform’s involvement and without paying any fees the platform may... View Details
Keywords: Disintermediation; Strategic Behavior; Circumvention; Undercutting; Uber; Airbnb; Handy; Upwork; Etsy; eBay; Monster.com; Google; Competitive Strategy; Multi-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Transportation Industry; Accommodations Industry; Service Industry; Advertising Industry
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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Books: Brand New

by Nancy F. Koehn (Harvard Business School Press) The creation of a powerful, widely recognized brand is the ultimate goal that every entrepreneur dreams of but few achieve. In her new book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell,... View Details
Keywords: Startbucks; HP, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, eBay; Estee Lauder; John Heinz (MBA 1963); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Winter 2014
  • Article

Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms

By: Andrei Hagiu
Multisided platforms such as eBay and Facebook create value by enabling interactions between two or more customer groups. But building and managing a winning platform isn’t easy. View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Multi-Sided Platforms; Business Strategy
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Empirical Tests of Information Aggregation

Keywords: by Pai-Ling Yin; Technology; Web Services
  • News

How Carl Icahn Met His Match in eBay’s Donahoe

  • 24 Apr 2015
  • Video

StreetShares wins Best Investment in HBS Alumni New Venture Competition

  • 09 Mar 2016
  • News

Time for a shake-up at United Airlines

  • 07 Feb 2014
  • News

Why The Success Of Startups Hinges On Who Owns The Inventory

  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the development of technical standards your... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien