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  • December 2010
  • Article

Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Inflation and Deflation; System Shocks; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Framework; Problems and Challenges; Interest Rates; Cost; Developing Countries and Economies; Service Operations
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  • 10 Sep 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School

    Detecting Routines: Applications to Ridesharing CRM

    Routines shape many aspects of day-to-day consumption. While prior work has established the importance of habits in consumer behavior, little work has been done to understand the implications of routines--which we define as repeated behaviors with recurring, temporal... View Details
    • 25 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...

    that invests in seed and early stage consumer, enterprise and financial services companies. In this role, my main priority is to find ways our firm can help entrepreneurs as they grow and scale their businesses. Right after HBS... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship
    • 30 May 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Market Makers Bid for Success

    of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for industrial parts and suppliers.... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Web Services
    • Program

    Real Estate Management Program

    managers and advisors Real estate industry service providers, such as financial analysts, lawyers, architects, and urban planners While the program is designed primarily for executives with significant real estate industry experience, it... View Details
    Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate
    • Summer 2017
    • Article

    Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior

    By: Jeffrey Prince and Shane Greenstein
    The television industry is undergoing a generational shift in structure; however, many demand-side determinants are still not well understood. We model how consumers choose video content provision among over-the-air (OTA), paid subscription to cable or satellite, and... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Service Delivery; Consumer Behavior; Television Entertainment; Service Industry; Service Industry
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    • July 2006 (Revised March 2010)
    • Case

    Symantec vs. McAfee: Competing in the Consumer Anti-virus Industry

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
    Symantec and McAfee hold 53.6% and 18.8% respectively, of the anti-virus software market as of 2006. While the market is concentrated with five firms controlling over 90%, Microsoft is on the eve of releasing a consumer security subscription packed called OneCare Live.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Software; Information Technology Industry
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    • 06 Oct 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: October 6

    http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/308024-PDF-ENG Competing Through Business Models (D) Harvard Business School Note 710-410 This note was prepared to aid students in the EC course "Competing through Business Models."... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    M.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for MS Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, Chief of Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital Douglas Melton, Ph.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair... View Details
    • Article

    Analyzing Scrip Systems

    By: Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi and Peng Sun
    Scrip systems provide a nonmonetary trade economy for exchange of resources. We model a scrip system as a stochastic game and study system design issues on selection rules to match potential trade partners over time. We show the optimality of one particular rule in... View Details
    Keywords: ＂Repeated Games＂; Stochastic Trust Game; Dynamic Program; P2P Lending; Scrip Systems; Artificial Currency; Non-monetary Trade Economies; Marketplace Matching; Currency; Operations; Game Theory
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    • 17 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 17

    out an Industrial Internet, connecting machines and devices, collecting their data and operations, and providing services to clients based on analytics of this data and information. The case considers the implications of such an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: December 4

    applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 31 Mar 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach

    Keywords: by Akash Chattopadhyay, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services; Financial Services
    • October 1999 (Revised October 2005)
    • Case

    Autobytel.com

    By: Youngme E. Moon
    Autobytel enjoys first-mover advantage in the Internet new car buying space. According to a number of metrics, it is the online leader in this category. However, a number of competitors have sprung up, raising questions about the long-term viability of Autobytel's... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Competition; Business Model; Service Operations; Budgets and Budgeting; Growth and Development; Auto Industry
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    • 27 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Buy big, sell small

    distribution model by providing a digital platform where shop owners can order fast-moving consumer goods online or by phone from local wholesalers who combine their orders with others from nearby kiranas. “We’re like a Costco or Sam’s... View Details
    • March 2023 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Close Concerns: Diabetes Research and Advocacy

    By: Regina Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker
    Diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 18, Kelly Close understood the importance of balancing consistency and iteration. This principle had also informed her professional work, which started with a rapid promotion from financial analyst at Goldman Sachs to an analyst... View Details
    Keywords: Diabetes; Health; Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Industry; Knowledge Dissemination; Outcome or Result; Equality and Inequality; Business Model; Entrepreneurship
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    • August 2006 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    iPod vs. Cell Phone: A Mobile Music Revolution?

    By: David B. Yoffie, Travis D. Merrill and Michael Slind
    In 2006, a nascent market for music-enabled mobile phones was emerging to challenge Apple Computer's dominant position in the digital music industry. Through its iPod line of portable digital music devices and its iTunes Music Store, Apple controlled more than half of... View Details
    Keywords: Music Entertainment; Emerging Markets; Brands and Branding; Sales; Opportunities; Price; Business Model; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Service Delivery; Communications Industry; Music Industry
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    • January 2021
    • Case

    Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Cash Flow; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Brands and Branding; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; United States; California
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