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01 Mar 2011
News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

develop listening, communication, and feedback skills, Moon explained. While the Required Curriculum reflects an institutional philosophy that all first-year students need a common knowledge base, the Elective Curriculum presents students with “an incredible View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

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

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2025 Family Capital Family Dynasties Increasingly Drive M&A Deals Re: Christina R Wing 24 Dec 2024 Cold Call Scaling a Family Business While Maintaining Founding Values Re: Henry McGee 17 Dec 2024 Marketplace In Many Cities, a Century-Old... View Details

2013
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Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

By: Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth

Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. This article's main... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability; Jobs and Positions; Family and Family Relationships; Health Care and Treatment; Employment Industry; Health Industry

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22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55493 Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment By: Li, Jin, Gary P. Pisano, and Feng Zhu Abstract— The scalability of a View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/files/vale/print/No_96_-_Wells_-_FINAL.pdf Working Papers Marketplace or Reseller? By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—Intermediaries can choose between functioning as a View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Jun 2017
News

Ask the Expert: On the Fly

free-market competition. While market liberalization internationally is still evolving, the consumer benefits of the competitive marketplace are pretty compelling. Putting any one carrier in charge of the infrastructure that forms the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1996
News

On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong

featuring Asian business leaders. Westerners entering the Asian marketplace also need to know something about business relationships based on what the Chinese call guanxi, or "connection." The role of guanxi will be discussed in a session... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Sep 2008
News

Negative Ad Power

believe the charges. It’s unheard of for consumer marketers to run ads that name their competitor but not themselves. What accounts for the difference? The primary reason we see more negative advertising in politics than in the commercial View Details

Keywords: John A. Quelch;Katherine E. Jocz; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Jan 2019
Blog Post

"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets

Carolina and Charlie believe that the key to balancing marriage and the marketplace is to not feel obligated to evenly balance everything, all the time. "Over the course of a marriage," Carolina says, "one partner can... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

is not ideas or even talent, it is attention. This groundbreaking book argues that unless companies learn to capture, manage, and keep it — both internally and out in the marketplace — they will fall hopelessly behind. Drawing from an... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

decisions confronting the founding management team of a new online financial services company. Prosper Marketplace is an internet-based market for individuals to borrow money from other individuals who wish to invest in such loans.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
News

The Future of Books

much a reader-centric company. Will bookstores survive in this changing industry? MA: Yes. Our goal is to maintain the most diversified marketplace possible and to strengthen the physical bookstore channel of distribution. Now, you can... View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2015
News

Euro Vision

million valuation, he might have missed his investment in auxmoney, an online marketplace for peer-to-peer loans. 3 Get comfortable on planes Rimer still lives in Geneva but is in London a few days a week. He is in Berlin regularly and in... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

01 Mar 2009
News

HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

centers. The intellectual capital generated by this research is transformed into programs and products offered in a competitive marketplace by Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). The income generated by these twin... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

Founded in 2004 in California, oDesk operates an online marketplace that matches Employers with Contractors. oDesk provides fact-based information on Contractors, including experience, skills, and certifications, to Employers who use this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2001
News

In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs

near-failure. Other keynotes included David P. Perry's "The Ups and Downs of the Modern Entrepreneur." Perry (MBA '97) is the founder of the B2B marketplace Chemdex (which recently closed its doors) and CEO of its parent company, Ventro... View Details

Keywords: Information

23 Aug 2016
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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