Marketplace - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa

Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their own environment by actually going... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; UNICEF; Educational Services

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

often had little choice before, and markedly reduced the uninsured rate. However, consumers in some states found that their new plans had narrower networks and their physicians weren’t always included. In 2016, some of the largest insurers pulled out of the state View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

createdwealth in their lifetime. "They look at how they created value in thefor-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach withphilanthropy," Emerson says. Joining this group are baby boomers, who will be recipients... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-055.pdf Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

such period on record. Significant financial failures returned to the marketplace in the late 1980s with the savings and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

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Harvard Business School

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

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

If Marketing Experts Ran Elections

Maybe they have to register in advance, wait in line at the polling station, and use an out-of-date polling machine to do so. The commercial marketplace is much more convenient. Consumers can cast their votes at millions of... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

24 Mar 2017
News

Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

their children, and yours. Alumna: Meghana Narayan, MBA 2007 Region: Southeast Asia & Middle East Werk: Werk is a job platform on a mission: keeping women in the leadership pipeline. We are a new type of job marketplace that allows... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Over 50 and Job Hunting?

inventory their professional skills, attend relevant professional conferences and seminars, and study marketplace trends. “You can’t do anything about getting older,” she notes, “but you can stay in touch with the forces that drive your... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; job hunting

01 Dec 2005
News

Back to School

how you position the school in the marketplace or how you help students figure out whether this is the right place for them, it’s problem-solving, and I love that,” she says. Now that she’s found her own niche, Whitney has long-term plans... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

2016
Article

Peer-to-Peer Markets

By: Liran Einav, Chiara Farronato and Jonathan Levin

Peer-to-peer markets such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb allow small suppliers to compete with traditional providers of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy... View Details

Keywords: Peer-to-peer; Online Platforms; Matching; Innovation; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Market Design; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit

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01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years, the country experienced no major financial crises, the longest such period on record (see chart above). Significant financial failures returned to the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2003
News

DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers

primarily for public schools serving low-income families. It has created an online marketplace connecting teachers with “citizen philanthropists,” who buy supplies or services the schools can’t afford. At www.DonorsChoose.org, teachers... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

says. “We wanted to see if just making the notion salient that your donation could be better would be sufficient to trigger an excuse not to give at all.” Using the online marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk, Exley and Kessler set up an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

marketplace hence our nomenclature refers to "virtuous mice." And there are a lot of large companies attracted to these successful social icons, but not all "wealthy elephants" are capable of entering into a successful... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

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

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

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