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- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
awareness of cybersecurity issues. Combined with the ability to block ads, the growing costs of acquiring customers online, the experience of “Zoombombing,” and controls on consumer data by EU regulators and... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
structured loans usually carry a few years of guaranteed low interest, which allows local governments to reduce the cost of their debt quickly and obviously. But after the honeymoon period, these loans end up carrying highly variable... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
Unfortunately, that tendency turns out to be bad for business. “At the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other.” In the paper The Cost of Friendship, three Harvard researchers show that the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract more hosts, and vice versa—and because hosts will confront... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
services — they want control of their lives and are willing to pay for it. Addressing these needs, the authors say, could spark the next leap forward in wealth creation. This new business model envisioned by Zuboff and Maxmin is based on... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
the legal inconsistencies that arise in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy. In addition, they must determine if Butters has sufficient information about, and control over, operations at Navigator to be confident engaging in a lengthy set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and popular sport events, reveal that the observed difference... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
designed as modular systems. Finally, it analyzes in detail the strategy of capturing value by maintaining exclusive control of an essential module in an open system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-040.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
growing concern that such regulation may simply shift production to unregulated regions, potentially increasing overall carbon emissions in the process. Carbon tariffs have emerged as a possible mechanism to address this concern by imposing carbon View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier, the costs of some of the most... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
is changing at an astounding pace in this region. Although tempting, the US response should be less focused on addressing the "current" state of affairs and more attuned to the various potential trajectories of change. For example, instead of trying to View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the relation between corporate ownership structure and bank loan syndicate structure using a novel, hand-collected data set on corporate ownership and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
wants. When information is not contractible, typically for cost reasons, a firm's ability to offset the distortions caused by career concerns is limited. Q: What unique insight does the model you propose in these papers offer in terms of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
An expert on competition in telecommunications and new technologies, Patrick S. Moreton (MBA ’91) takes the long view. Despite congressional efforts to tighten controls over media ownership and the current public outcry against media... View Details