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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies

By: Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu
Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic complements or substitutes as for one-sided firms, but also -and crucially so- on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in... View Details
Keywords: Two-Sided Markets; Strategic Complements; Strategic Substitutes; Cost; Investment; Profit; One-Sided Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Advantage
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    Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

    This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course 'The Moral Leader', an MBA elective taken by... View Details

    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    The Invention of Corporate Governance

    By: Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer
    The analysis of corporate governance begins with a central feature of modern capitalism—the separation of ownership and control in large corporations—first empirically documented by Berle and Means (1932). Such separation entails several agency problems reflecting... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Law; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • March 2002 (Revised June 2005)
    • Case

    AOL Time Warner, Inc.

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Erin Sullivan
    AOL Time Warner, which has been billed as the "first fully integrated media and communications company of the Internet Century," raises the fundamental question of how value will be created and captured by the merger of AOL and Time Warner. This case describes just how... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; Organizational Culture; Consolidation; Change Management; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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    • 27 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in Industry Sectors

    Keywords: by Jianxi Luo, Daniel E. Whitney, Carliss Y. Baldwin & Christopher L. Magee; Auto

      An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals

      U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S.  MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007–2009,... View Details

      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Accounting Scholarship that Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has studied the interface among accounting information, capital markets, standard setters, and... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Business Education; Information; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Performance Improvement; Practice
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      • March 2011
      • Article

      Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has studied the interface among accounting information, capital markets, standard setters, and... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Asset Pricing; Risk Management; Surveys; Capital Markets; Measurement and Metrics; Valuation; Fair Value Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Financial Reporting
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      • 19 Nov 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Search for Benchmarks: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom?

      Keywords: by Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma & Charles C.Y. Wang
      • 06 Dec 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

      payouts-to-price, and earnings-to-price. That approach would tell an investor whether a stock is cheap or expensive with more confidence. Go beyond ratios. Consider doing a discounted cash flow analysis to estimate the intrinsic value of... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
      • Exercise

      Travelogo: Understanding Customer Journeys

      By: Eva Ascarza, Nicolas Padilla and Oded Netzer
      In late May 2023, Sarah Merino, the newly appointed manager of the Customer Insights group at Travelogo—an online travel booking platform—initiates a comprehensive analysis of clickstream data to understand the varied behaviors and needs of their users. In preparation... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Analysis; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing Strategy; Segmentation; Consumer Behavior; Travel Industry; United States
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      • December 2005
      • Article

      Up to Code: Does Your Company's Conduct Meet World-Class Standards?

      By: Lynn Paine, Rohit Deshpandé, Joshua D. Margolis and Kim Eric Bettcher
      Codes of conduct have long been a feature of corporate life. Today, they are arguably a legal necessity—at least for public companies with a presence in the United States. But the issue goes beyond U.S. legal and regulatory requirements. Sparked by corruption and... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ethics; Standards Of Conduct; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance
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      • June 2010 (Revised August 2021)
      • Case

      Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert Sheen
      After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing prices... View Details
      Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Capital Markets; Financial Liquidity; International Finance; Globalized Markets and Industries; Valuation; Banking Industry; Shipping Industry; Germany
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      • 22 Nov 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions

      Keywords: by David F. Drake; Manufacturing
      • 31 Jul 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

      Keywords: by Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart & Michael L. Tushman
      • 2010
      • Report

      State of the Region Report 2010: The Top of Europe Recovering—Regional Lessons from a Global Crisis

      By: Christian H.M. Ketels
      The 2010 State of the Region Report, the seventh in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, takes the Region's economic temperature in the first year after the full onslaught of the global crisis. The focus of... View Details
      Keywords: Trends; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Policy; Performance Effectiveness; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Baltic Countries
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      • July 2010 (Revised August 2021)
      • Supplement

      Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships (CW)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
      After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing prices... View Details
      Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital Markets; Cash Flow; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Price; Price Bubble; Contracts; Crisis Management; Market Transactions; Valuation; Shipping Industry
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      • 2009
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Singapore Competitiveness Report

      By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

      The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

      Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
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      • 21 Jun 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?

      Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology

        Janice H. Hammond

        Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

        Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation