Market Concentration - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

at around $450 for months). I don’t expect volatility to go away anytime soon, as it is still highly speculative, highly concentrated and doesn’t have enough liquidity yet. Most people think gold and silver have always been extremely... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

market over the years. While the company continues to make envelopes and printed products, it also produces packaging for pharmacies and other e-commerce mailing needs. With 9 manufacturing facilities and more than 20 sales offices in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2019
News

Making Eco Easy

formulated, concentrated products that consumers reconstitute with water in Blueland’s reusable acrylic spray bottles—tinted pink for bathroom cleaning, yellow for multisurface, and blue for glass or mirrors. The company also recently... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

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

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Curriculum | MBA

key disciplines. Fall Term Finance 1 Financial Reporting & Control (FRC) Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) Marketing Technology & Operations Management (TOM) Strategy Spring Term Data Science & AI for Leaders Business,... View Details

Profile

Orkun Kilic

– and HBS – were already part of Orkun's ambitions. Subsequent private equity work in London, where he concentrated on central and eastern Europe and the Middle East, reinforced his plans. "I'm technically strong and have a master's... View Details

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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket business strategy, the connections between the activities of government entities and those of firms, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural... View Details

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

the United States has changed over the past few decades following several M&A waves. Concern has been raised that the industry has become highly concentrated, dominated by a handful of large holding companies. In the paper "How View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

23 Apr 2008
Op-Ed

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

fit the scale and nature of the firm. Beyond managing risk at the firm level, the FSA is also responsible for systemic risk. Thus, it monitors trends in the financial markets across the individual firms. Consistent with U.S. concerns... View Details

Keywords: by Dwight Crane; Banking; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

markets and ecosystems through their ability to transfer a package of financial, organizational, and cultural assets, skills, and ideologies across national borders. It argues such firms have been shapers of, as well as responders to,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2015
News

Case Study: The Speed of Light

(Photo courtesy of KDC Solar) Launched in 2011, QE solar is an operations and maintenance company focused on servicing large-scale, commercial solar energy structures—the kind typically owned by large utility companies. The company is based in New Jersey, the... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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

01 Dec 2018
News

Trade Off

consequences of distribution. DR: There is no doubt that there is an overall gain. But the question is, who gains? Who loses? The concentrated interests affected negatively by free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources

’95), board committees focused on four areas of interest to both alumni and the School: Brand Perception — offered the alumni perspective on the branding strategy being developed by Brian Kenny, the School’s chief marketing and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and Gujarati-speaking Indians are similarly 108 times more concentrated in managing motels. We develop... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

Shane Greenstein Abstract—We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more View Details