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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
about unused assets,” he says. “Everybody has unused assets sitting in their homes—art they don’t really love. If we can create a marketplace where people feel comfortable selling that piece and then buying something they truly love, then... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Gu, Pu, Benjamin Yost, and Yuan Zou. "Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage." Working Paper, July 2023.
- 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
Klijn, Flip, Joana Pais, and Marc Vorsatz. "Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-093, April 2010.
- 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
- 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
- 19 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
An Invitation to Market Design
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- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
and health insurance marketplaces. Applicants eligible for zero-premium plans could be enrolled by default, with the option to make changes. “There could be smoother, common processes,” Dafny says. “And states can loosen the constraints on View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
different story when it came to describing the personal goals and challenges that drive their individual enterprises. The marketplace today has recognized that without brown people you can't win.—Keith Clinkscales, Vanguarde Media After... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Market Design By: Roth, Alvin E. Abstract—Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces... 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
- 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
Niederle, Muriel, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13529, October 2007.
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
- 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
- 2009
- Working Paper
'I read Playboy for the Articles': Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences
By: Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
Keywords: Job Search; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Relationships; Social and Collaborative Networks
Chance, Zoe, and Michael I. Norton. "'I read Playboy for the Articles': Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-018, September 2009.
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
many online marketplaces of the so-called sharing economy. “To facilitate trust, many online platforms like Airbnb encourage sellers to provide personal profiles and even to post pictures of themselves” says HBS Associate Professor Ben... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
with a vendor to build an online marketplace that will essentially be a Craigslist of hunger, where restaurants or even smaller entities can post food availability—say, 50 pounds of chicken breasts at a local hotel—and a shelter could... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture