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03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2014
News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

Bookalokal can capture many midsized markets where it will confront fewer rivals, it will be in a strong position to eventually partner with big-city victors to create a shared platform that allows travelers... View Details

21 May 2019
Cold Call Podcast

If the Key to Business Success Is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail

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Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

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A comprehensive platform used to screen M&A transactions, analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and... View Details

August 2019 (Revised October 2019)
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Preserving Trust at Care.com (B)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Julia Kelley

The (B) case describes the company’s response and subsequent developments. View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Governance; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Emerging Markets; Trust; Technology Industry; United States

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22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

percent for loans of up to $250,000 that can stretch for three years. P2P platforms offer amortizing loans with fixed interest rates and three to five year maturities. A third emerging online player in small business lending are... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

performance of hotels versus Airbnb, the researchers used hotel data from STR, which tracks more than 161,000 hotels, as well as proprietary data provided by Airbnb, creating "the perfect setup to study market competition between new... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

19 Apr 2018
News

One Last Pitch

open, her father standing outside. “There has to be a better way to support recovery,” he said. Gastfriend partnered with his own father, Dr. David Gastfriend, an expert in addiction psychiatry, to create DynamiCare Health, a digital View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. Note: Follow the instruction on the page to set up individual account. For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our Learn with Baker Library Capital IQ Introduction.... View Details

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

obtains excessive market share, consumers who prefer a different approach will have no viable choice. The Effect Of Market Concentration On Payments To Publishers The future viability of Yahoo's ad View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. Specifically, we model competitive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Resources for Harvard Economics Students

check out our Learn with Baker Library Capital IQ Introduction. FactSet Individual account required. A comprehensive platform used... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Eyes in the Skies

placed two more satellites into orbit in April of this year, bringing the total constellation to 14. Now that BlackSky’s analytics and constellation platform are largely in place, Minnick is focused on refining and View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Jun 2023
News

The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

were to decide you’re comfortable sharing data with US government authorities, how comfortable are you sharing the data with the government in China? That’s a huge market for you. How can you say yes to the United States and no to China?... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

money to or not have funded at all” Crowdfunding platforms represent a major shift in the way art projects seek support and find success. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has raised more than $1.5 billion for over 80,000 art... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

surveys at one office of the firm. They discovered four keys to building a help-friendly organization that leaders of other organizations could learn and apply to similar effect. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/01/ideos-culture-of-helping/ar/1 January 2014... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2013
News

Embracing Chaos

Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to dominate their... View Details

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

01 Jun 2024
News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

has not had any defaults on $7.2 million in loans—large for a budding market like Singapore. At Austin-based online lending platform Able, founders Evan Baehr and Will Davis (both MBA 2011) have devised... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

22 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Five Steps to Jump Start Your MBA Recruiting at HBS

to our recruiting options, including details on recruiting events, interviews and job postings. 3. Create / Update Your Recruiting Account – Recruiters utilize our online recruiting platform to post jobs, sign-up for recruiting events and... View Details

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