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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Lehman Brothers Timeline Sept-Oct 2008 Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) Lehman Brothers Archives Lehman Brothers Deal Books Search Exhibition Lehman Brothers - Introduction 1840s – 1880s General... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
Xbox, make their profits from game developers through royalties and incur losses on the sale of consoles to users by pricing them below cost. The key reason is that two-sided platforms must solve a chicken-and-egg problem. For example,... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
after transitioning from cushier industry positions—has really prompted me to think carefully about what it takes to advance the talent pool in govtech spaces. These experiences have deeply motivated my search for more meaningful and... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been analyzed in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset Pricing Studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30
and supports R&D by high-type incumbents and entry. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/AABK_130412.pdf Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
creating." Requests made from profiles with African American-sounding names were about 16 percent less likely to be accepted. According to the study, discrimination was pervasive across price points and in a variety of neighborhoods,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
equivalent of the entire sales force must be replaced at many firms every four years or so. And the time frame shrinks if and when companies increase revenue targets. So while strategy should drive search and selection, the exigencies of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
that a 10% increase in the average price of in-state tuition is associated with a 13.9% decrease in new business starts of parents with college-age children in the CPS, relative to both non-parents and parents of younger children. A one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new orphan drugs appears to be greater today... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
a role: Communication costs, transportation costs, and search costs. Communication costs are lower on the internet because it is inexpensive to communicate with others, whether they are in the same building or across the world.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
A simple view of negotiation presents a cold transaction between what one person has and what the other person is willing to pay for it. If the price is right, the deal gets done. As anyone who has recently bought a car or sold a house... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Health helps doctors select the healthiest embryo(s) for assisted reproductive therapy. Darza Yazan Halwani, MBA 2020 Business Track Runner-Up DARZA is a new e-commerce fashion brand that provides the best online shopping fashion experience at the lowest View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Publication:Information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
recent TNS study reported the leading activities of Internet users as: used a search engine to find information (81 percent); looked up the news (76 percent); used online banking (74 percent); looked up the weather (65 percent);... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
they can take strategic advantage of those opportunities. What can AI help with? Everything from reading X-rays and setting prices to forecasting demand and maintaining jet engines. Almost every traditional process can be transformed with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman