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    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso
    We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Trust; Perception; Business and Government Relations
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    • 12 Aug 2008
    • Op-Ed

    Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

    many advertisers that currently buy ads from Yahoo. The proposed deal would substantially reduce Yahoo's ability to offer competitive payments to Web site publishers seeking to show pay-per-click ads. Without Yahoo View Details
    Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
    • 06 May 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: May 6, 2008

    an examination of companies such as Boston Scientific and Paramount, and through research on auctions, the authors identified three principal drivers of competitive arousal: intense rivalry, especially in the form of one-on-one... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 05 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 5, 2008

      Working PapersOn Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions Authors:Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz Abstract How should players View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • April 2010
    • Supplement

    The Auction for Travelport (B)

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
    This short case presents the epilogue of The Auction for Travelport (A). Blackstone decided to bid on its own, acquired Travelport for $4.3 billion and subsequently went on to acquire another GDS, Travelspan, for $1.4 billion. It then merged the two GDSs and partially... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Industry Structures; Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Market Transactions; Change; Auctions; Travel Industry
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    • 14 Mar 2007
    • Op-Ed

    Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

    capital." Now modern-day trustbusters have again launched an investigation into collusion in financial services, this time focusing on private-equity firms. The Justice Department is concerned that private-equity firms are teaming up to View Details
    Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
    • June 2010 (Revised December 2013)
    • Supplement

    Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (B)

    By: John D. Macomber, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
    Second phase of auction for a prime retail development parcel in Chengdu, China. Competition forces the firm to revisit all of its land purchase criteria. Hang Lung Properties is known for rigorous due diligence, for discipline in buying property, and for good... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Chengdu
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    • July 2005
    • Article

    Price Improvement in Dealership Markets

    By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    Price improvement refers to the practice whereby dealers order executions that improve on quoted prices. Why are these improvements given? Standard thinking is that competition causes dealers to give better prices to customers with less information. This paper... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Markets; Competition; Information; Customers; Negotiation; Mission and Purpose; Practice; Theory; Performance Improvement; Bids and Bidding; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • 16 Nov 2021
    • HBS Case

    How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

    have deeply downsized their staffs. “There’s a lot that happened in the situation that should sound alarm bells for others,” Montgomery says. “The cases point to risks that can arise when firms facing severe competitive threats adopt a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 23 Dec 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: December 23, 2008

    StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost Harvard Business School Case 209-067 The case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    (19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior (75) Bids and View Details
    • 09 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

    Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
    Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology
    • 30 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

    make competitive bids as necessary to protect his company's strategic position. Without a doubt, this announcement is a veiled threat directed squarely at you. Unfortunately, the CEO's announcement has... View Details
    Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
    • 17 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

    Digital Agility: The Impact of Software Portfolio Architecture on IT System Evolution By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerström, Martin Mocker, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—The modern industrial firm increasingly relies on software to support its View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp. By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer January 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader... View Details
    • 04 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

    decision making. These barriers are: Do no harm. Their gain is our loss. Competition is always good. Support our group. Live for the moment. No pain for us, no gain for them. The antidote? An approach used in the business schools, whereby... View Details
    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
    • 28 Nov 2023
    • Book

    Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

    competition and do not commit to protecting fundamental rights. I find that, sometimes, businesspeople seem attracted to one-party regimes because they seem efficient or lack political conflict. But political conflict is always present in... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

    company. The Bridges Fund Management Recruiting Process A key way Bridges connects with prospective MBA interns is through the Turner MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT) Competition. The competition is a collaboration between... View Details
    • Web

    Skydeck - Alumni

    Golden (PMD 59, 1990) on the promise of the new longevity economy Wired to be Inspired Professor Ranjay Gulati on the messy but transformational pursuit of purpose Bidding Up 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Wilson (MBA 1961,... View Details