Marketplaces - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

marketplaces. The way marketplaces and intermediaries rank offers from sellers or service-providers can be thought of as an incentive system. Economists are well positioned to analyze issues such as short-term user behavior and the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

01 Sep 2013
News

The New Rules of E-Commerce

customers. The third largest e-commerce marketplace in the world, behind Amazon.com and eBay, Rakuten businesses also include financial services, e-books, travel, and a professional baseball team. As Mikitani details in his recent book,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; e-commerce; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

Juan Leungli

Concerts, a marketplace for live music. He graduated from Boston University with a B.S., summa cum laude, in Business and from Harvard Business School with an MBA where he was a National Society of Hispanic MBAs Scholar and was awarded... View Details

Profile

Jordan Amadio

school—it's the best training for using science to help society." To be most productive, however, Jordan believed he needed to take an additional step. "We need physician researchers who can commercialize lab advances; who can bring them to the View Details

14 Sep 2018
News

Lessons Learned 10 Years After the Financial Crisis

those working to keep our financial system resilient, the enemy is forgetting.” View video at Yahoo Finance Listen on Marketplace Read more at the New York Times View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

daily grind: “Forget the city, forget work, and remember who and what is most important.” Born at the Harvard i-lab, Getaway recently used an online real estate investment marketplace to raise $110,000 in just 45 minutes. The money will... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Feb 2008
News

After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial

marketplace hit that several other publications launched their own over the next several years, including Forbes, the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report, and the Wall Street Journal. For better or worse, the rankings came to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Web

Eligibility | New Venture Competition

(Business Plan Workshop) (HKS) Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Private and Social Sectors (HKS) Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences (HBS) Entrepreneurship in the Education Marketplace (HGSE) Field Course: Business of the Arts (HBS)... View Details

05 Dec 2016
News

How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience

(photo via Twitter) (photo via Twitter) Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) and his fellow HBS cofounders didn’t have any tech experience when they launched the online freelance marketplace HourlyNerd. Three years later the company, now known as... View Details

June 2023
Exercise

Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise Instructions

By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti

Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complimentary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides - consumers and those providing applications or services - need access to the same platform to interact. A... View Details

Keywords: Platform Strategies; Technology Platform; Customer Acquisition; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Strategy

Citation

Purchase

09 Jun 2015
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media

Tate's Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum What happens when the traditional museum-going experience meets the world of digital marketing? WORKING PAPERS Competing with Privacy Personal information is a valuable asset in the View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Advertising

2011
Working Paper

Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis

We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the U.S. In... View Details

Keywords: Fairness; Policy; Health Disorders; Marketplace Matching; Performance Effectiveness; Rank and Position; Health Industry; United States

Citation

Read Now

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Abbey Stemler Abstract—Online marketplaces have transformed how we shop, travel, and interact with the world. Yet,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 PM – 1:15 PM EDT, 14 Apr 2021
Virtual Programming

Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce

Professor?Bill Sahlman?will discuss his new case, Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for Americas Workforce, with CEO and cofounder?Rachel Carlson. Guild connects employers and universities to provide employees with education as a benefit, transforming traditional... View Details

19 Sep 2016
News

A Streamlined Time Inc.

vice president of Time Inc. and president of brands, laid out his vision for a more efficient and innovative future for the 94-year-old media company: “There’s clearly some disruption going on in the marketplace and we’re making some... View Details

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

LifeQube mobile clinic management Asia-Pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Oliver Segovia, MBA '10 Jennifer Kelly, MBA '10 AVA invitation-only shopping platform Canada HBS Club of Toronto Zaheed Poptia, MBA '06 CardSwap online giftcard View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

languages in many countries. We've been building that infrastructure ever since. Since we started, we've added a lot of technology to the marketplace over time and utilized the World Wide Web. And we've changed the pricing model quite a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

01 Mar 2004
News

Liquid and Efficient

focus, Thain observed, “It’s very important that we restore investor confidence, ensure that the reputation of the exchange is built on being a great, liquid, efficient market, and that the marketplace is viewed as having a very high... View Details

Keywords: Finance

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

recently as "technology has made it easier to build marketplaces for services and fine-tune the degree of control exerted over service provider-customer interactions." HourlyNerd allows consultants (typically MBA students) to hire... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

and claim the value of their marketplace identities, and that give producers the incentive to respect them." We asked Deighton to elaborate on his ideas. Working Knowledge: You argue that market forces can do a better job than... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

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