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- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Fundación with a first-of-its-kind transaction, allowing to purchase Mexican bonds in the market below face value and then redeem the bonds immediately at face value. The transaction almost doubled the $2.6... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism
informed, to track art transactions and auction results,” Weidner says. Where’s a collector to start, though? We asked him to share a few pieces of advice for burgeoning aesthetes. READ MORE Is the Auction House of the Future Online? 1)... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207077 Framedia Harvard Business School Case 207-057 Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive new media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
and Erik Stafford Periodical:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines institutional price pressure in equity markets using market prices of mutual fund View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
so,” Kempf says. “We see it in views of the economy or views of certain risks, like the risk posed by certain political events or climate change or by the pandemic. There’s even the growing importance of partisanship in determining who works together and who does... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- August 2022
- Case
SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Scott Duke Kominers, and Amy Klopfenstein. "SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO." Harvard Business School Case 823-027, August 2022.
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
have different allocations and distributive effects. Indeed, rising inequality, the weak labor market performance for workers at the lower end of the skill spectrum, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009, the COVID pandemic, wars,... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
terms: "Acquisitions are a macho exercise, not an intellectual one. Think World Wrestling Federation, not a chess tournament." Stephen Alexander adds: "Those promoting an acquisition are often dealmakers whose interest in the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
led to a pervasive problem: Virtually all e-commerce companies are losing money. So when we started working on a case with Zalora—a Southeast Asian fashion e-commerce company led by Paulo Campos (MBA 2010)—we thought about deliberately employing a strategy where we... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
revenue share on transactions and provide curated fulfillment/logistics. —Tony Chao (MBA 2007) Stay the course and focus only on made-to -order, which is the best way to build a sustainable competitive advantage. The made-to-order model... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however, relative to the corresponding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
enterprising companies, the current threats to market capitalism present vital opportunities. Drawing on discussions with business leaders around the world, the authors argue that companies must stop seeing themselves as bystanders and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
review. By sharing my experience, I can reduce risk and increase convenience for other consumers, but would I bother? I may need to book another hotel next month, but hopefully, surgery is a rare occurrence. The frequency of purchase View Details
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
and even the potential to create social good. Covering both public and private markets, the course will present the unprecedented opportunities that have arisen due to energy transition and other trends through rigorous approaches to business model assessment,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
generational difference in the amount of time we spend staring at little screens, exchanging both essential and inane information, and transacting business at a never-before achievable clip. The Gen Z’ers who have lived their entire lives... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
research has focused on various aspects of customer management in B2B contexts, including customer selection and portfolio management; managing a spectrum of customer engagements, from transactions to long-term relationships; developing... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
empirical evidence that multi-homing advertisers are larger than single-homing advertisers. We then link our model to search engine market conditions: we derive comparative statics on consumer choice parameters, presenting relationships... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne