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- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest self-service technology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207077 Framedia Harvard Business School Case 207-057 Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive new media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
of the "long tail" principle argue that lower transaction and search costs will lead to a shift away from hit content and cause more fragmentation in consumers' choices. This perspective is in sharp contrast with the more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
in 2015, Sounouvou had recently launched Exportunity, a secure digital marketplace that connects African suppliers with buyers around the world. Through the company’s platform, farmers in Benin can sell their produce to a manufacturer in South Africa, managing the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
vital at all levels of the organization. Valley explained that in addition to the negotiations around a transaction — the exchange of goods or services — the flattening of organizations means people must negotiate the terms of their... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's daily transaction information)... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
consequences of corporate indifference, individual end consumers are striking out on their own to blaze new trails in a new approach that we call the individuation of consumption. They want to be treated as individuals, not as anonymous View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
revenue share on transactions and provide curated fulfillment/logistics. —Tony Chao (MBA 2007) Stay the course and focus only on made-to -order, which is the best way to build a sustainable competitive advantage. The made-to-order model... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
and Erik Stafford Periodical:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines institutional price pressure in equity markets using market prices of mutual fund transactions caused by capital flows from 1980 to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for participants to discriminate. But as listings began to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
than how well capitalized they are, said Constantini. He said he walked away from a seven-figure transaction after realizing the ethics of the other parties involved were not compatible with his. "There's always the next deal,"... View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
raised $30,000 and reopened later that year, but shut down its operations for a final time in 1877. 43 The British firm Jardine, Matheson & Co., whose business transactions Heard & Co. had overseen during the First Opium War, took over... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
and fellow faculty member John J. Sviokla coined a term to describe the nonphysical arena in which business transactions were increasingly taking place - the marketspace. The Managing in the Marketspace course the pair developed and... View Details
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
negotiating with an athlete can be expected to be guided by the club's interests, while the player's agent is looking out for the client's demands. When independent buyers and sellers hammer out a transaction this way, the market's... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Fundación with a first-of-its-kind transaction, allowing to purchase Mexican bonds in the market below face value and then redeem the bonds immediately at face value. The transaction almost doubled the $2.6 million endowment the Fundación... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
and showrooms for the brands that really need them to sell their goods. Rajiv Lal: You could really reimagine a story where there would be manufacturers, showrooms, and fulfillment—Amazon. There would be no transactions in the store and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
considerable experience but in other industries. The increase in investment rates does not affect the success of these transactions adversely to a significant extent. These findings are consistent with the view that venture capitalists... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
like an empty gesture or a mere financial transaction and may not act as a strong motivator to work hard, Whillans says. It’s best to avoid merely adding a cash bonus to a worker’s paycheck; a separate bonus check stands out more as a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Moreover, CDVC is likely to be in earlier-stage investments and in industries outside the venture capital mainstream that have lower probabilities of successful exit. Even after we control for this unattractive transaction mix,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel