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- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of...
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by John Quelch
- 2007
- Working Paper
What Have We Learned From Market Design?
By: Alvin E. Roth
This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in...
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Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned From Market Design?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13530, October 2007.
- 15 Feb 2013
- News
A New Matching Market for Dog Buyers
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources...
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- July 2012
- Article
The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation
By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
We study the real effects of market segmentation due to credit ratings using a matched sample of firms just above and just below the investment-grade cutoff. These firms have similar observables, including average investment rates. However, flows into high-yield mutual...
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Segmentation;
Credit;
Investment;
Investment Funds;
Quality;
Markets;
Measurement and Metrics;
Business Ventures
Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam. "The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation." Review of Financial Studies 25, no. 7 (July 2012): 2041–2069. (Winner of the RFS Young Researcher Prize 2012.)
- March 2008
- Article
What Have We Learned from Market Design?
By: Alvin E. Roth
This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in...
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Risk Management;
Market Design;
Market Participation;
Market Transactions;
Failure;
Safety
Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned from Market Design?" Economic Journal 118, no. 527 (March 2008): 285–310. (Hahn Lecture.)
- April 2007 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
John Mackey and Whole Foods Market
By: Nancy F. Koehn and Katherine Miller
Traces the history of organic agriculture from its pre-industrial roots to the present day, and examines the growth of Whole Foods Market in the context of the broader growth of the organic industry. Also investigates John Mackey's role as a founder and leader of the...
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Leadership;
Food;
Entrepreneurship;
Agribusiness;
Retail Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Koehn, Nancy F., and Katherine Miller. "John Mackey and Whole Foods Market." Harvard Business School Case 807-111, April 2007. (Revised May 2007.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
Fractionalization and the Municipal Bond Market
We study the impact of ethnic and religious fractionalization on the U.S. municipal debt market and find that issuers from more ethnically and religiously fractionalized counties pay higher yields on their municipal debt. A two standard deviation increase in religious...
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Ethnicity Characteristics;
Bonds;
Financial Markets;
Investment Return;
Geographic Location;
City;
Religion;
United States
Bergstresser, Daniel, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai. "Fractionalization and the Municipal Bond Market." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-128, June 2011.
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
Emerging markets such as the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—entice and intimidate. When managers are asked what is special about emerging markets, they typically point to rapid economic growth, potential competitors, and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing
- 1985
- Working Paper
Sequential Innovation and Market Structure
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
This paper concerns the introduction of a sequence of new, higher-quality durable products in a market in which there already exists a lower-quality substitute. The product has the further attribute that a real resource cost is incurred at the time a higher-quality...
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Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Sequential Innovation and Market Structure." Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper, No. 1185, October 1985.
- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Last month,...
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- June 2009
- Supplement
Mary Kay Inc.: Asian Market Entry (B)
By: John A. Quelch
By 2008, over half of Mary Kay Cosmetics' $2.8 billion sales were from outside the U.S. Sales from China exceeded $500 million in 2008 through over 450,000 beauty consultants. China was Mary Kay Cosmetics' second most important national market with revenues growing at...
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Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Emerging Markets;
Market Entry and Exit;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Asia;
China
Quelch, John A. "Mary Kay Inc.: Asian Market Entry (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 509-067, June 2009.
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Normally, the...
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- February 2023
- Supplement
Nexus Market (B): After the Ultimatum
By: Tsedal Neeley and Jeff Huizinga
This case reveals how the situation with Nexus Market and its Ukrainian and Russian subcontractors was resolved. The conclusion to the story of a Silicon Valley start-up executive facing an ultimatum from a team of Ukrainian subcontractors to cut ties with a separate...
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Keywords:
International Relations;
Conflict and Resolution;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Technology Industry;
United States;
Ukraine;
Russia;
Europe
Neeley, Tsedal, and Jeff Huizinga. "Nexus Market (B): After the Ultimatum." Harvard Business School Supplement 423-065, February 2023.
- May 2019
- Article
The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets
By: Sugata Roychowdhury and Suraj Srinivasan
Gatekeepers in financial markets have the power to provide the institutional stability, fortitude and direction necessary for the development and the smooth functioning of capital markets. At the same time, they are often motivated by their own private incentives....
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Gatekeepers;
Capital Markets;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Performance Effectiveness
Roychowdhury, Sugata, and Suraj Srinivasan. "The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets." Journal of Accounting Research 57, no. 2 (May 2019): 295–322.
- 10 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets
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by Zacharias Sautner & Belén Villalonga
- 05 Sep 2018
- Video
James Mwangi Creating Emerging Markets Full Interview
- 30 May 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets
- 2017
- Working Paper
Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
By: John Horton, William R. Kerr and Christopher Stanton
Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and...
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Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton. "Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-096, May 2017.