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Visual Uniqueness in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces: Machine Learning Model Development, Validation, and Application
By: Flora Feng, Charis Li and Shunyuan Zhang
Peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces have seen exponential growth in recent years featured by unique offerings from individual providers. Despite the perceived value of uniqueness, scalable quantification of visual uniqueness in P2P platforms like Airbnb has been largely... View Details
Keywords: Peer-to-peer Markets; Marketplace Matching; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Marketing
Feng, Flora, Charis Li, and Shunyuan Zhang. "Visual Uniqueness in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces: Machine Learning Model Development, Validation, and Application." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4665286, February 2024.
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
the worldwide drug market. But today, the U.S. share has climbed to about 50 percent while the European slice has dwindled to 21 percent. What's more, many drug makers in Europe have moved their R&D... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
Harvard University Admissions Event in Sao Paulo
This event is designed to give prospective candidates an opportunity to learn more about Harvard Business School. In addition, representatives from seven other Harvard Graduate Schools will be attendance to View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
credit: Kunle Ogunfuyi/GPA Professor Tsedal Neeley spoke about the global digital leader during the HBS Fung Global Research Symposium in Lagos. Photo credit: Kunle Ogunfuyi/GPA Another important aspect of the faculty members’ time View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI
By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua L. Krieger, and Abhishek Nagaraj. "Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 7442, May 2024.
- October 2024
- Case
Reed Group and Succession in a Family Business: An Impossible Job to Fill?
By: Lauren H. Cohen and Tonia Labruyere
James Reed had taken over Reed Group, the recruitment and career services company his father had founded and built, in 1994. He was now reflecting on succession planning and other challenges that lay ahead: with no obvious choice among his family members, he needed to... View Details
Keywords: Charity; Succession Planning; Family Business; Values and Beliefs; Management Succession; Mission and Purpose; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Family and Family Relationships; Recruitment; AI and Machine Learning; Employment Industry; United Kingdom; London
Cohen, Lauren H., and Tonia Labruyere. "Reed Group and Succession in a Family Business: An Impossible Job to Fill?" Harvard Business School Case 825-084, October 2024.
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the CEOs of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also served as a director... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
combined into one “industry” in which those teams compete, independent from the other industry groupings. With each round, teams can see how they’re faring and how their rivals... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
dwarfs basketball revenue, but money triggered by Division I basketball teams is hardly chump change, ranging from $123,000 to $44 million a year, Chung found. The boost from winning was very linear for both types of schools. A 3 point... View Details
Shunyuan Zhang
Shunyuan Zhang is an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first-year Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Zhang studies the sharing economy and the marketing problems that the dynamics of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
usually don't get to participate in a third," Ruettgers said. "A team can't be successful unless the whole team is producing." Despite increasing competition, the future looks... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
understand what your customers really buy and how. In many B2B selling situations, for example, there is an organizational boundary between customer personnel who see the value and those who see the price (for example, procurement).... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
such as eBay, YouTube, and Facebook to gather information and share opinions on how they spend their money, an entirely new marketing philosophy is called for, one in which the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Black Excellence: AASU’s 2019 Fall Retreat in Review
Co-Presidents Kim Foster (MBA ’20) and Melcolm Ruffin (MBA ’20) mobilized a team to organize the club's annual fall retreat. In addition to commemorating a landmark AASU moment, the purpose of the retreat... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs, published last year in Management Science, Zhu and coauthor Sun, of Boston University, bring an empirical approach to a question that has had many anecdotal responses but no firm results:... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. Employee orientation programs ought... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
Collaboration. You are not going to know all the answers; no one expects you to. This is a time for you to call on the resources, the capabilities of all of your employees, all of your team members, and bring them together View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
Nurture a workforce that values ideas and contributions
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
the second?" Johnson shared this and other tales of "active patience" with an audience of some six hundred HBS alumni at the 1998 HBS Global Alumni Conference held in Chicago June 16-19. A lifelong... View Details