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- February 1991
- Background Note
Note on Sealed Bid Auctions
By: David E. Bell
Describes a simple approach to determining an appropriate bid for a sealed bid auction. View Details
Keywords: History; Management Style; Financial Management; Consumer Behavior; Accounting; Bids and Bidding; Decisions; Market Transactions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Negotiation Style; Auctions
Bell, David E. "Note on Sealed Bid Auctions." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-140, February 1991.
- August 2004
- Article
Auctions of Homogeneous Goods with Increasing Returns: Experimental Comparison of Alternative "Dutch" Auctions
By: Elena Katok and A. E. Roth
Katok, Elena, and A. E. Roth. "Auctions of Homogeneous Goods with Increasing Returns: Experimental Comparison of Alternative "Dutch" Auctions." Management Science 50, no. 8 (August 2004): 1044–1063.
- Article
Participation Constraints in the Vickrey Auction
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Economic agents are characterized by two privately observable parameters: their willingness to pay for an item being auctioned, and their reservation utility level which must be exceeded, in expectation, to induce them to participate in this auction. This creates a... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Participation Constraints in the Vickrey Auction." Economics Letters 16, nos. 1-2 (1984): 31–36.
- April 1987 (Revised April 1994)
- Background Note
Auctions and Competitive Bidding: An Introduction
Krishna, Vijay. "Auctions and Competitive Bidding: An Introduction." Harvard Business School Background Note 187-161, April 1987. (Revised April 1994.)
- Article
Course Allocation by Proxy Auction
By: Scott Duke Kominers, Mike Ruberry and Jonathan Ullman
Kominers, Scott Duke, Mike Ruberry, and Jonathan Ullman. "Course Allocation by Proxy Auction." Proceedings of the International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics 6th (2010): 551–558. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6484.)
- March 2009 (Revised April 2010)
- Supplement
UBS and Auction Rate Securities (C)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Shawn A. Cole and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai
Supplement to 209119 and 209131 View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities
Bergstresser, Daniel Baird, Shawn A. Cole, and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai. "UBS and Auction Rate Securities (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 209-135, March 2009. (Revised April 2010.)
- March 2009 (Revised October 2011)
- Supplement
UBS and Auction Rate Securities (B)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Shawn A. Cole and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai
Supplement to 209119 View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities
Bergstresser, Daniel Baird, Shawn A. Cole, and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai. "UBS and Auction Rate Securities (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 209-131, March 2009. (Revised October 2011.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction
By: Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Lee
We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement metrics—paying either for each click on its ads (CPC), or for each purchase that follows an ad-click (CPA). Our analysis extends classic auction results by... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Measurement and Metrics; Quality; Mathematical Methods; Web Sites
Edelman, Benjamin, and Hoan Lee. "CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-074, December 2008.
- October 1977
- Exercise
Maxco-Gambit Variation with an Open, Ascending Auction
By: Howard Raiffa
Keywords: Auctions
Raiffa, Howard. "Maxco-Gambit Variation with an Open, Ascending Auction." Harvard Business School Exercise 178-037, October 1977.
- February 2011 (Revised February 2011)
- Supplement
The Auction for Burger King (A) (CW)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
The courseware contains information on comparable firms and transactions as well as a forecasting model using the case data. View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- News
To Improve Wireless Networks, Auction the Airwaves
- June 1996 (Revised June 1996)
- Teaching Note
Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction TN
By: Lynn S. Paine and Charles A Nichols III
Teaching Note for (9-292-114). View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
- November 2005
- Supplement
The Auction for Burger King (B)
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and James Quinn
Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and James Quinn. "The Auction for Burger King (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 906-013, November 2005.
- March 2008
- Article
The Consequences of Information Revealed in Auctions
By: Brett E. Katzman and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper considers the ramifications of post-auction competition on bidding behavior under different bid announcement policies. In equilibrium, the auctioneer's announcement policy has two distinct effects. First, announcement entices players to signal information to... View Details
Katzman, Brett E., and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "The Consequences of Information Revealed in Auctions." Special Issue on Theoretical, Empirical and Experimental Research on Auctions. Applied Economics Research Bulletin 2 (March 2008): 53–87.
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
auction house Paddle8 to handle the high-profile sale. They “understand the concept of the new form of art,” said Wu-Tang chief producer RZA of the four-year-old company, cofounded by a team including Aditya Julka and Osman Khan (both MBA... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Happy Campers: HBS Student Auction Helps Local Kids
At a "Christmas in July" auction held last summer, the January Cohort of the Class of 2001 raised just over $15,000 to benefit the Cambridge Camping Association (CCA), a 106-year-old organization dedicated to helping low-income, minority,... View Details
- January 2002
- Case
DeRemate.com: Building a Latin American Internet Auction Site
Analyzes the strategic decision-making process in terms of market forces and short-term growth for an online trading community site in Latin America. A major competitor to E-bay, DeRemate.com is contemplating expansion throughout Latin America. View Details
Rukstad, Michael G., and David Collis. "DeRemate.com: Building a Latin American Internet Auction Site." Harvard Business School Case 702-454, January 2002.
- 05 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction
Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Hoan Soo Lee