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  • 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
  • 01 Nov 2013
  • News

Selling Crafts with a Story

turned into Brika.com, an online marketplace featuring everything from handmade tea towels and dishes to tote bags and "Mr. T" onesies for baby. Brika, which takes its name from the Spanish word for factory, fabricá (they just loved the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon; crafts; hobbies; ecommerce; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Arts, Entertainment
  • 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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  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516092-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-004 Disintermediation in Two-Sided Marketplaces Two-sided marketplaces often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2024
  • Article

An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization

By: Mohammad Akbarpour, Eric Budish, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers
We propose an economic framework for determining the optimal allocation of a scarce supply of vaccines that become gradually available during a public health crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Agents differ in observable and unobservable characteristics, and the... View Details
Keywords: Vaccine; Fairness; Public Finance; Public Goods; Allocation Problems; Allocative Efficiency; Allocation Rules; Social Welfare; Pandemics; Inequality; COVID-19; COVID-19 Pandemic; Public Sector; Resource Allocation; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Public Administration Industry
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top... View Details
Keywords: Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Design
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  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty food and... View Details

    Marty Blue

    2019 Marty was engaged as an SVP of Business Development at CarGurus. CarGurus is the largest Automotive Digital Marketplace in the United States based on unique monthly visitors. At CarGurus she was an integral part of the management... View Details
    Keywords: Fitness & Sports;#68;#Transportation & Logistics;#20;#Ecommerce
    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

    on hand at this year's event to offer some words of wisdom to those following in their footsteps. Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu (both MBA '99) have raised $48 million in venture capital to fund their online marketplace for industrial... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2002
    • News

    Church on Sunday, Work on Monday

    marketplace on people's lives. The authors believe there are deep differences of worldview and language that need to be addressed before church and business professionals can truly communicate on this problem. "The church could be one of... View Details
    Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 28 Mar 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

    iPhoto Marketplace lending platforms such as LendingClub and Prosper have made significant competitive inroads against traditional banks in recent years by bringing together people who want to borrow with investors ready to bankroll them.... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
    • July 1996
    • Case

    Edmund's--www.edmunds.com

    Edmund's publishes an automobile price guide in books (600,000 units per year) and over the Internet (16,000 users a day and growing). The site can be visited at www.edmunds.com. In the marketplace, it makes money selling books. In the marketspace, they make their... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Information Publishing; Information Industry; Auto Industry
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    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    Picture This

    from wall art to puzzles to pillows. And its acquisition, last August, of Spoonflower—an artist marketplace for custom-designed fabric, wallpaper, and other home-decor items—puts Shutterfly in a prime position to leverage consumer... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; leadership; manufacturing; acquisitions; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 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 Jun 2018
    • News

    Disrupting India’s Dental Market

    Amar Singh (MBA 1998) traces his curiosity about the Indian dental marketplace to the type of experience that might scare most people away for good. Lured in by the $20 price—roughly equal to Singh’s insurance copay when he lived in San... View Details
    Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
    • 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
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    Show Me The Money — Or Not

    course, winning the contest is no guarantee of success. Conversely, a number of plans that failed to make the semifinals found success in the marketplace. Contest judges panned Stig Leschly’s (MBA 1997/JD 1998) plan for Exchange.com, an online View Details
    • 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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    • 27 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

    forthcoming Harvard Journal on Legislation From the Digital to the Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Abbey Stemler Abstract—Online marketplaces have... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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