Two Sided Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

verge of extraordinary economic growth. And with GDP growth, people will start to travel. Except back then, there was no market segmentation, whatever-- when you talk about traveling to China, everybody had the same itinerary, the same... View Details

17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight

thought you all cared about me." Now I realized that I have failed Bob in six really important ways. I have failed, first of all, to solicit feedback. I've failed to solicit both praise and criticism from Bob. So those are the first two... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

also some sticks and penalties in it. The most important one is probably the first-of-its-kind fee on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, which is boosting the developing market for equipment to detect and measure methane... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown

market research. But first—coffee. “Nothing happens without coffee,” Foalea says. They break into two teams: Foalea, Behrens, and Lymperopoulos go in one direction, Shin and Iubel in the other direction... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

development and realized two things: First, without industry involvement there can’t be a treatment for ALS, because developing a single drug costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Second, that drug companies can invest billions of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2018
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Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

of male HBS grads to the executive office was not easy, but for women still unwelcomed above the glass ceiling in the ’70s, getting there was especially difficult. “She was one smart, sharp cookie,” says a classmate of Ellen Marram (MBA 1970), a View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

Last year, Echoing Green, which invests in social entrepreneurs, chose SHE as one of the most innovative social change organizations worldwide, providing it with seed money and technical support. It has been a fast-paced two years since... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies

Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over View Details

Keywords: April White; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Printing and Related Support Activities; Manufacturing

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977

Co-Chairman, Loews Corporation Download Tisch profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1949 Born, Asbury Park, New Jersey 1971 Earns BS, Hotel Administration, Cornell University 1971 Joins Loews as Marketing... View Details

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Ukraine will likely intensify, roiling energy markets further and raising questions about the future of globalization, says HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal. Putin’s iron fist vs. Zelensky’s moral clarity Historian and HBS professor Nancy... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

KOR), a group of Polish intellectuals banded together in support of workers across the country, the first time the two groups had formed such an alliance. In the fall of 1976 one of Waldemar’s classmates heard about KOR through the static... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

profitability. McGahan currently teaches the elective Strategy, Commitment, and Choice, which focuses on strategy at the business-unit level. Assistant Professor Kenneth S. Corts studies competition in segmented markets and the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

resilience while changing your relationship to stress, and shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) Page Two This is... View Details

11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain

weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

with the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. “We are approaching a cliff,” says Anna Diaz Triola (MBA 2000), vice president of marketing at Summit Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of a cohort of small pharma... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working in an emerging View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because we want to have a positive... View Details