Market Concentration - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

market reaction to attempts to enforce sovereign debt contracts via U.S. "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America in the pre-World War II period and by legal action in the 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that dollar diplomacy created... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Thus far, strategy scholars have emphasized the importance of industry and firm-specific characteristics in... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

the 20-30% commission charged by its competition, would help differentiate it and gain the necessary traction in an ostensibly concentrated market between Uber and Lyft. Despite both Uber’s and Lyft’s... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Hayling Price

sector "that would enable economic opportunity and mobility in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty." But while his career experiences in the nonprofit sector were rewarding, they were also limiting. "I found that... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

03 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Business of Animal Protection Club

limited concentration at Harvard Business School? That issue is animal protection. The change in attitude towards animals is undeniable. Animal welfare ballot initiatives receive bipartisan support across red and blue states. Roughly... View Details

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

because their market power allows them to charge higher service fees than domestic banks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-025.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Armstrong Investigation Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Sep 2021
News

Green House

issues and help us get to the US goal of zero-carbon emissions by 2050,” she says. In the early 2000s, Harper moved into nonprofit consulting, working for clients such as the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Charles River Conservancy, and then into roles that View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

be learned from execution, experiment, and actual experience. Finally, going step by step provides people inside an organization and all the parties in the multiple markets around it with clear, immediate objectives and even metrics. This... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

payroll monthly gave me a new appreciation for sales and selling,” he says. “As [Samuel] Johnson said, the prospect of hanging in the morning concentrates the mind.” He put much of what he learned in his 2014 book, Aligning Strategy and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

MBA '69), cofounder and chairman of Apax Partners & Co. Ltd., and vice chairman of EASDAQ—the pan-European stock market for growth companies which he helped establish in 1996; Gerard Montanus, a general partner in Atlas Venture, a... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

01 Mar 2019
News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

when researchers excluded applicants from California and Massachusetts, two geographic areas with a higher concentration of tech and health tech startups than the rest of the nation. In fact, more experienced job seekers pivoted their job... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

organization. Is it possible that I have that sequence wrong? Or that it might be wrong to even think of it as a sequence of priorities? What if initial efforts instead concentrated on inclusion? What if we tried to engage the employees... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

privatization have created unprecedented opportunities for firms of all sizes and varieties to compete in larger markets than ever before. In the process, a handful of global organizations have risen to replace formerly state-owned... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive form game and show that standard intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: collusion may become easier as View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

more likely to use equity in the transaction, and buy companies in a related industry. The market tends to react more negatively to the announcement of the acquisition of a venture capital-backed company, but the long-run stock View Details