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  • 09 Feb 2016
  • News

Providing the Care That Seniors Need

and raising a family, and becoming a caregiver to an aged parent. “Through that process I began to look at what was available in the marketplace for the aged who had cognitive disorders like dementia, but also the aged in general, and I... View Details
  • 08 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

can do x,’” says Cheney. “I had an ‘aha’ moment that there was a lack of a marketplace to connect the supply and demand on that.” A New Recruiting Solution is Born Cheney built out the concept for Prokanga while on maternity leave with... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • News

Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation

own, willingness is not enough; leaders also must foster specific capabilities—the ability to generate a marketplace of ideas through discourse and debate, to test and refine ideas through quick experiments, and to make decisions that... View Details
  • September 2010 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg

By: Hanna Halaburda and Aldo Sesia
The case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Auctions; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Strategy; Education Industry; Sports Industry; United States
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Hidden Substitutes

By: John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
In this paper, we show that preferences exhibiting some forms of complementarity in fact have an underlying substitutable structure. Specifically, we show that some preferences that are not substitutable in the setting of many-to-one matching with contracts become... View Details
Keywords: Many-to-One Matching; Many-to-Many Matching; Stability; Substitutes; Matching With Contracts; Slot-Specific Priorities; Sherlock; Market Design; Contracts; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage

By: Pu Gu, Benjamin Yost and Yuan Zou
This study investigates whether social media coverage influences a firm’s likelihood of being acquired. Specifically, we hypothesize that coverage of a firm on the Seeking Alpha platform raises its visibility to potential acquirers and M&A advisers (i.e., investment... View Details
Keywords: Social Media; Mergers and Acquisitions; Marketplace Matching; Investment Banking
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment

By: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Education; Marketplace Matching; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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    Richard M. Schulze

    Schulze transformed his small Sound of Music electronic store into an electronics retailing giant – Best Buy. Schulze introduced mass-merchandising techniques to the electronics marketplace and helped to transform the shopping process... View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • Article

    A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations

    By: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani
    We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by... View Details
    Keywords: Search Costs; Cost; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Science; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 01 Apr 1997
    • News

    HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

    idea for "Public and Private." "The standing joke around my office," she quipped, "was that if I had one more kid, I'd come back as managing editor!" "An executive who has a personal life and urges her employess to do the same will be beloved and better at... View Details
    • 21 Jul 2009
    • Research Event

    Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges

    Investments in early childhood development are investments in a society's future human capital. The glass ceiling not only holds back women, it holds back business competitiveness. A sound diversity strategy is a talent strategy and a View Details
    Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas
    • 29 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

    by Desai in mid-2017. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-096 Making Markets Explains how to identify and capitalize on marketplace design opportunities. Defines markets and... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Dec 1998
    • News

    New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership

    One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details
    • 26 Nov 2019
    • News

    Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

    person can make to the organization, no matter what level that person is at. In fact, she says, many of the best ideas percolate from the bottom up. According to Hill, there are three interconnected capabilities necessary for innovation: Creative abrasion—encouraging a... View Details

      Joseph I. Miller

      Under Miller’s direction, Cummins Engine was transformed from a small domestic engine producer to the largest provider of diesel truck engines in the world. He dramatically expanded the company’s presence in the international marketplace... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • 19 Oct 2023
      • Blog Post

      New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

      manufacturing approach. Concentro - Inigo Rengifo Melia (MBA 2023) - Concentro aims to become a tech-enabled marketplace for tax credits (starting with renewables' ITCs), providing the technology to allow tax credits' transfers and a... View Details
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

      By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
      New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990's, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match, by observing the differences in the outcomes and... View Details
      Keywords: Health; Employment; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Job Offer; Compensation and Benefits; Health Industry
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      • 25 Feb 2020
      • News

      Case Study: The Credit Bureau

      —Simon Pellas (MBA 2019) I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the B2B2C model in this industry. There are many stakeholders: Brokers will only adopt tech that will change the listing price or their fee structure. A free SaaS tool with View Details
      Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
      • 2011
      • Working Paper

      Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange

      By: Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth
      As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Market Participation; Marketplace Matching; Organizations; Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry
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      • 01 Dec 1996
      • News

      25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference

      opportunities of operating as general managers in the emerging global marketplace and to examine the continuing obstacles we face as a group in gaining access to capital for startup endeavors. "The AASU annual career conferences are... View Details