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- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
relationships. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/01/blame-me/ar/1 Working Papers Price Coherence and Adverse Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit to buyers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
Two days ago, the first buyers of Apple's iPad began putting it through its paces, playing games, navigating the Internet, and downloading electronic books. That groan you heard was from dozens of book publishers across the United States,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
selling them at a charity auction, where the artists and buyers can meet. The money raised goes to scholarship funds for people studying the arts. “It helps support the artists, while at the same time expanding the art appreciation of... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
United States—which is comparable to the number of fatalities resulting from car accidents. Current gun-purchase laws in most states allow the buyer to take home a firearm immediately after completion of an instant background check, which... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
application process is open, and qualified buyers are selected on the basis of lotteries and other methods. Our projects attract and retain people in the neighborhood, which contributes to stability, further investment, and a broader tax... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Bonnie (MBA '90), CEO of CNET, whose Web sites—not to mention a radio station and several print magazines—provide a wealth of information to technology buffs and buyers alike. Founded in 1992, CNET has fared so well in the marketplace... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
borrowers are defaulting less.” Before recent interest rate hikes, American homeowners had been reaping the benefits of record home prices, cashing out amid a buying frenzy. However, data from the National Association of Realtors showed that these transactions involved... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
decided she wanted to slow down and began looking-belatedly, she adds-for a buyer for her company. "Your business centers around you, but at some point you're not going to be there," she says. "Does your company die a slow death, or is... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract The strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable vs. unfavorable)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
labor-intensive industries, contractual arrangements with foreign buyers are technically feasible and might provide the same business benefits as FDI. (As a form of equity financing, FDI is typically prominent elsewhere in the world in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
business performance. Even with these advances, marketers still do a surprisingly poor job of marketing Marketing. They do not appreciate, let alone articulate, the economic and social benefits of marketing. Marketplace exchanges are based on mutual trust between View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
company had performed well and was gaining momentum. Interline was a rare asset in terms of the scale it had reached. However, there were still unknowns. Would buyers reward Interline with a high valuation multiple that reflected its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
buyers would like to take advantage of interest rates that are "too low" and avoid borrowing when interest rates are "too high" they are impacted differently by the errors—and are willing to pay relatively more or less... View Details
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
any economy: Ownership shapes the exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers, grants access and control over capital and resources, and mediates the governance of economic enterprises. Despite its centrality, the topic of... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
buyer characteristics. Consider the experiences of condo developers targeting retirees who wanted to downsize their homes. Sales were weak until the developers realized their business was not construction but transitioning lives. Instead... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
is and also the fact that other people might have another mindset." Students also learn not to get snowed by certain tactics that are used by the other party. For instance, the class works on a case in which a banker is selling a business and the student is the... View Details