Publications

Educators

August 2015
Article

Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

By: Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz

We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the... View Details

Keywords: Externalities; Intermediaries; Market Design; Internet; Web Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry

Find at Harvard

Fast Answer

Options: Basics for finding price data

common stock was $57.74 and on that date the price of a call option to buy a share of JPM for $57.50 on January 18, 2014 was $0.48. That is, on January 14 you’d pay $0.48 for the right to buy the stock... View Details

Editorial

Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

By: Christina Rehnberg, George Serafeim and Brian Tomlinson

Rather than requiring less short-term information, the key to combating short-termism is to encourage companies to share more information about their long-term plans. Analysis of companies that have done so suggests that long-term plans are not mere marketing... View Details

Keywords: CEO; Investor Relations; Disclosure; Long-term Growth; Investing; Business and Shareholder Relations; Strategy; Corporate Disclosure

Register to Read

Article

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane

We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing where all... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Distribution; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategy; Profit; Price; Performance Efficiency

Find at Harvard

29 Jun 2022
News

As Prices Skyrocket, Coupons Are Harder to Find Than Ever

June 2014
Article

The Price of Wall Street's Power

By: Gautam Mukunda

Over and over again, executives make decisions that aren't in their companies' best interests, in response to pressure from Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

learn how to support these sorts of shared business models? If you were the CEO of an insurance company, how would you address the conflicts between this model (splitting ownership and usage) and the traditional, well understood, and... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the stock View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

to address,” Ely says. “I think it can be done. Do I think it actually will be done or when? I don’t know.” About the Author Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Image: skynesher What do you think of this research? View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

worker shared a trick for keeping track of information customers share at the beginning of calls, reducing a source of stress. Another advised a colleague not to “unbundle” the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jun 2019
News

Low online prices are great for shoppers. But they're killing small businesses

2009
Working Paper

Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu

We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations,... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Asset Pricing; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks; Technology Adoption

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

Stores? Research Paper: Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products Deconstructing the Price Tag What do you think of this research? Share your insights below. View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

February 2016
Supplement

Alibaba Goes Public (B)

By: Krishna Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan, Charles C. Y. Wang and David Lane

Update on Alibaba Group's share price performance and related events in the year following its September 2014 IPO. View Details

Keywords: Dual-class Share Structure; Alibaba; IPOs; VIE; Initial Public Offering; Corporate Governance; Performance; Stock Shares; United States

Article

Market Structure, Oligopoly and the Stability of Market Shares

By: R. E. Caves and M. E. Porter

Keywords: Markets; Price; Economics

Find at Harvard

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

are already seeing higher prices at the pump, for one thing—and in some areas, those prices could spike even higher, says Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal. Abdelal, HBS’s Herbert F. Johnson... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

November 2015 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Uber: Changing the Way the World Moves

By: Youngme Moon

In 2015, Uber is building what may be the largest point-to-point transportation network of its kind; it is literally changing the way the world moves. But unlike traditional transportation logistics companies like FedEx, Uber has an incredibly lightweight... View Details

Keywords: Service; Innovation; Pricing; Customer Loyalty; Uber; Taxi; Sharing Economy; On-demand Economy; Marketing; Operations; Strategy; Disruption; Customer Satisfaction; Transportation; Consumer Behavior

Educators

2022
Working Paper

House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda

During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that... View Details

Keywords: House Prices; Collateral Channel; Entry; Demography; Mortgages; Entrepreneurship

SSRN