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Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell
We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP) and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an underfunded second mover in... View Details
Keywords: Platform Design; Betting; Complements; Competing Business Models; Co-opetition; Entry; Multi-Sided Platforms; Design; Network Effects; Business Model; Competition; Cooperation
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Neil Campbell. "Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting." Special Issue on Platforms. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 28, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 29–40.
- December 2024
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Respect for Improvements and Comparative Statics in Matching Markets
One of the oldest results in the theory of two-sided matching is the entry comparative static, which shows that under the Gale–Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm, adding a new agent to one side of the market makes all the agents on the other side weakly... View Details
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Respect for Improvements and Comparative Statics in Matching Markets." Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design 9, no. 1 (December 2024): 83–104.
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Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Oral History; Corruption; Business History; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Asia; Africa; Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets." Enterprise & Society 20, no. 1 (March 2019): 19–32.
- July–August 1995
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Seeing the Voice of the Customer: Metaphor-based Advertising Research
By: Gerald Zaltman and R. Coulter
Zaltman, Gerald, and R. Coulter. "Seeing the Voice of the Customer: Metaphor-based Advertising Research." Journal of Advertising Research 35, no. 4 (July–August 1995): 35–51.
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
Assistant Professor of marketing Doug J. Chung. Oddly, little academic research has been done on the subject. And even some BC administrators would rather credit educational excellence than a gridiron... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Business School marketing professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan in his new book, Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy. The auto industry, he says, is a stark example of why go-to-market strategies need high-level attention and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
that influences billions of people globally. Although the health and environmental costs of air pollution are well known, the present research investigates its ethical costs. We propose that air pollution can increase criminal and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 1991
- Background Note
Industrial Market Research: Beta Test Site Management
By: Robert J. Dolan
Describes the role of BETA tests in the new product development process and presents guidelines for effective test program development. View Details
Dolan, Robert J. "Industrial Market Research: Beta Test Site Management." Harvard Business School Background Note 592-010, August 1991.
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Making Private Data Accessible in an Opaque Industry: The Experience of the Private Capital Research Institute
By: Josh Lerner and Leslie Jeng
Private markets are becoming an increasingly important way of financing rapidly growing and mature firms, and private investors are reputed to have far-reaching economic impacts. These important markets, however, are uniquely difficult to study. This paper explores... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Leslie Jeng. "Making Private Data Accessible in an Opaque Industry: The Experience of the Private Capital Research Institute." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 157–160.
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
hyper-rational equilibrium play and would have consequential properties that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting behavior under other procedures, including one... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2022
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Cratering Markets Blowing a Bigger Hole in Consumer Psychology
- July–August 2016
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Minimum Advertised Pricing: Patterns of Violation in Competitive Retail Markets
By: Ayelet Israeli, Eric Anderson and Anne Coughlan
Manufacturers in many industries frequently use vertical price policies, such as minimum advertised price (MAP), to influence prices set by downstream retailers. Although manufacturers expect retail partners to comply with MAP policies, violations of MAP are common in... View Details
Keywords: Pricing Policies; Pricing; Channel Management; Legal Aspects Of Business; Price; Governance Compliance; Marketing Channels; Retail Industry
Israeli, Ayelet, Eric Anderson, and Anne Coughlan. "Minimum Advertised Pricing: Patterns of Violation in Competitive Retail Markets." Marketing Science 35, no. 4 (July–August 2016): 539–564. (Lead article.)
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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design
reports. For a multimedia learning module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Industry / Market Analysis BCC Research It provides View Details
- 1985
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Differential Information, the Market and Incentive Compatibility
By: Jerry Green
Green, Jerry. "Differential Information, the Market and Incentive Compatibility." Chap. 3 in Frontiers of Economics, by Kenneth J. Arrow and Seppo Honkapohja, 178–226. Basil Blackwell, 1985.
- 01 Feb 2001
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book with the title Can Japan Compete?" It was some nine years ago, at a time when Japan's economic success was overwhelmingly credited to its government's involvement with industry, that Porter and his team began an in-depth study of the Japanese economy. This View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Quantitative Marketing and Economics Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract—Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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