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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog
mechanics of setting prices, and pushes students to think critically about a company’s customer advantage in the marketplace and what monetization approach can most effectively capitalize on this advantage, thus helping the firm achieve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
necessary e-commerce infrastructure does not exist in Mexico? The Answers: Bingo—you’re in (or should be in) the logistics business! You’ve stumbled on an unmet need in the marketplace that eclipses just the furniture niche. Yeah, it’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
the shortage of skills isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link Central and Eastern Europe’s software houses with global enterprises in... View Details
- 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
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
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
- 2007
- Working Paper
The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices
By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990's, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match, by observing the differences in the outcomes and... View Details
Keywords: Health; Employment; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Job Offer; Compensation and Benefits; Health Industry
Niederle, Muriel, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13529, October 2007.
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
the Bowl Championship Series helps to delay bowl matchups until the completion of all the games in the regular season, so that the top teams can more often be matched with each other in a championship game. For doctors, the marketplace... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
in a marketplace that you have a good chance to dominate. Bottom line: higher margins and more revenues for you. These sorts of assumptions may still prevail in, say, pharmaceuticals, but all bets are off as far as the IT sector is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
some of the tasks a marketplace needs to accomplish to perform well. In particular, marketplaces work well when they provide thickness to the market, help it deal with the congestion that thickness can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Square, set out to answer this question after she started to wonder about her own complicated feelings concerning the changing Square. Diving into Harvard Square’s past and present, Turco explores why we love our local marketplaces and... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
months of the pandemic writing about marketplace design tactics that could provide support—for example, by leveraging delivery marketplaces to bring food to the elderly or by distributing hand sanitizer more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White
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of Four Innovative, New Institutions Cheryl E. Owens-Howard (DBA) 1983 A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Views of the Relationship Between Consumers and Advertising in the Marketplace Donna B. Stoddard (DBA) 1991 Information... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
a campus conference earlier this month to focus on four issues: forging effective business- educator partnerships, creating a better marketplace for middle skills, developing entrepreneurial ecosystems, and defining success in... View Details
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In the News - Entrepreneurship
Scaling a Family Business While Maintaining Founding Values Re: Henry McGee 17 Dec 2024 Marketplace In Many Cities, a Century-Old Dinner Model Is Getting New Life Re: Michael Kaufman 10 Dec 2024 Family Capital The FamCap25 – Women, Boston... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
impact our service and quality. How do we grow without diluting our main value proposition?” The Answers: What do you want to be when you grow up? A successful regional player in the New Jersey marketplace or a successful nationwide... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
'I read Playboy for the Articles': Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences
By: Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
Keywords: Job Search; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Relationships; Social and Collaborative Networks
Chance, Zoe, and Michael I. Norton. "'I read Playboy for the Articles': Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-018, September 2009.
- 2023
- Working Paper
The International Price of Remote Work
By: Agostina Brinatti, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino and Andres Drenik
We study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market using data from a large web-based job platform, where workers from around the world compete for remote jobs. Despite the global nature of the platform, we find that remote wages are higher... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Exchange Rates; Purchasing Power Parity; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Macroeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Wages; Trade; Globalization; Marketplace Matching; Currency Exchange Rate; Service Industry; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry
Brinatti, Agostina, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik. "The International Price of Remote Work." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29437, October 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
health care marketplace and make competing on value central to their strategy. All stakeholders in the health care industry—regulators, providers, insurers, employers, and patients themselves—have roles to play in creating real... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel