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  • 25 Mar 2011
  • News

The 'Gentle Evolution' in Finance

  • November 2015
  • Article

Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary markets affects the value appropriated by firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary markets: the "cannibalization" and "option value"... View Details
Keywords: Cannibalization Effect; Option Value Effect; Secondary Markets; Concert Industry; Craigslist; Competition; Distribution Channels; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the US Concert Industry

    We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary markets affects the value appropriated by firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary-market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary markets: the “cannibalization” and “option value”... View Details
    • January 2008
    • Article

    Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
    Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details
    Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry
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    • 13 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

    As chairman and CEO of the leading vaccine producer in the world, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Ken Frazier has one of the highest-profile positions in global business. But Frazier, who is leading one of the firms on a charge to... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy

    By: Mihnea Moldoveanu
    I introduce algorithmic and meta-algorithmic models for the study of strategic problem solving, aimed at illuminating the processes and procedures by which strategic managers and firms deal with complex problems. These models allow us to explore the relationship... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Business Strategy
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    • 07 Mar 2008
    • News

    Art of retaining professionals

    • 28 Oct 2014
    • News

    There’s No Excuse for Avoiding Strategy

    • February 1987 (Revised August 1989)
    • Background Note

    United States Trade Law

    By: David B. Yoffie
    Examines the manner in which U.S. trade law and policy has evolved, with emphasis on trade in manufactured goods and services as well as the relationship between the executive and the legislature. The structure and content of U.S. trade law is discussed including a... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Machinery and Machining; Policy; Law Enforcement; Outcome or Result; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    The Demand for Executive Skills

    By: Stephen Hansen, Raffaella Sadun, Tejas Ramdas and Joseph B. Fuller
    We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting... View Details
    Keywords: C-Suite; Jobs and Positions; Competency and Skills; Management Skills; Job Search; Job Design and Levels
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      Rakesh Khurana

      Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

      Professor... View Details

      Keywords: executive search
      • 22 Apr 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Riitta Katila, Stanford School of Engineering

      • August 1998
      • Case

      Record Masters

      By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
      Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Negotiation Deal; Investment
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      • January–February 2020
      • Article

      Consumer Reactions to Drip Pricing

      By: Shelle Santana, Steven Dallas and Vicki Morwitz
      This research examines how drip pricing—a strategy whereby a firm advertises only part of a product’s price upfront and then reveals additional mandatory or optional fees/surcharges as the consumer proceeds through the buying process—affects consumer choice and... View Details
      Keywords: Drip Pricing; Pricing; Consumer Protection; Hidden Fees; Price; Consumer Behavior; Perception
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      • 15 Nov 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: November 15

      where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 Sep 2007
      • First Look

      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 View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 04 Apr 2016
      • Blog Post

      Meet the Middle East & North Africa Club

      1300 attendees and various panels and events throughout the weekend. How does the MENA Club assist students as they search for summer and full time employment? We have a career rep that fields all career inquiries from View Details
      • 2014
      • Article

      Executive Compensation and Human Capital Investments Through Industry Selection

      By: Boris Groysberg and Eric Lin
      We use proprietary data capturing compensation levels of executives placed by a global search firm to investigate how executives evaluate rewards and risks of human capital investment choices. Our findings suggest that more isolated industries with lower opportunity to... View Details
      Keywords: Executive Compensation; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career
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      • August 2014
      • Article

      Incentives in a Stage-Gate Process

      By: Raul O. Chao, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
      Many large organizations use a stage‐gate process to manage new product development projects. In a typical stage‐gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from research and exert effort in development while senior executives make intervening go/no‐go... View Details
      Keywords: Stage-Gate Process; Production; Operations; Product Development; Innovation and Invention
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      • 19 Sep 2023
      • HBS Case

      How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

      students that we're in a new world. There’s copyrighted and not copyrighted, and then there's also public and private. And so, the issue right now is that you can have copyrighted data that is also public. For instance, any newspaper publisher that allows their news... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology