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Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?
By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1)... View Details
Keywords: Market Intermediation; Search; Two-Sided Markets; Platform Design; Demand and Consumers; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien. "Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?" RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 337–362. (2012 Winner for Best Paper on Competition Economics, Association of Competition Economics.)
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
McDonald of Procter & Gamble and the company's shift to more emphasis on digital media as an example, commented that "it is possible to allow experimentation trial and error without the CEO looking foolish because he or she does... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton has to take a hard look at the numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA, smart mobile phone, and digital... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
concentration. We show that these results are largely driven by patents filed by distant collaborators rather than non-collaborative patents or patents by non-distant collaborators, suggesting low cost long-distance digital communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- Web
Collections | Baker Library
rare books, broadsides, photographs, company annual reports, and audiovisual and digital materials, as well as works of art by a diverse range of artists from around the world. Collection Areas Highlights Collecting View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
small, regional employment agencies have existed in the space for decades. But Nomad’s digital marketplace is an innovation, allowing clinicians to advertise their availability and health care institutions to advertise their needs. Once a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
course, it is possible to apply subjects like strategy or marketing to any company that you work for, especially if you are working in the strategy department. However, here are three other examples of what... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
medicines. Hunter plans to use the Blavatnik Fellowship year to refine strategy and business development for the company’s novel drug delivery platform with his co-founders, Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Wayne Lencer and Justin... View Details
- 30 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Big Media, Big Business! Inside scoop on the upcoming Entertainment & Media Club Conference
professional networks to grow. Many recent industry conferences and stories in the press have focused on new entrants to the space: the up-and-coming players across the entertainment and media sectors, particularly in the digital realm.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- Web
Remote Work Extends to Factories and Farmlands | Working Knowledge
Data and Technology Remote Work Extends to Factories and Farmlands By Prithwiraj Choudhury on April 22, 2025 . Digital technology is expanding work-from-anywhere opportunities beyond desk jobs, creating roles in sectors like agriculture... View Details
- May 2013
- Supplement
Studio Moderna—A Venture in Eastern Europe
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Spreadsheet Supplement for Studio Moderna—A Venture in Eastern Europe (HBS Case #808110). Includes Exhibit 3a, Exhibit 3b, Exhibit 5, and Exhibit 6. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Marketing; Entrepreneurial Organizations; International Entrepreneurship; International Expansion; Consumer Marketing; Consumer Goods; Innovation; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Advertising; Internet; Marketing; General Management; Growth; Organizational Development; Television; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Marketing Channels; Media; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Slovenia; Slovakia; Croatia; Macedonia; Bulgaria; Serbia and Montenegro; Poland; Hungary; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Czech Republic; Lithuania; Albania; Romania; Central Asia
- April 2011
- Case
Samsung and Google TV
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Prithvi Raj and Crystal Jean Marrie
This case describes Samsung's decision on how to pursue the growing market opportunity for internet-connected televisions, which enable consumers to access a range of web-based content including basic information (e.g. stock quotes, weather, news headlines, RSS feeds,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
es-says by the cocreator of the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc. Bricklin discusses how people and technologies — cell phones, e-mail, digital cameras, and personal Web sites, among others — affect one another and how the technologies can be... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
levels, will affect structural conditions." 2 Porter integrated the impact of government into strategy development by focusing on how it affected his "five-forces" analysis of rivals, potential entrants, suppliers,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
customer experience and low cost? In this book, strategy and operations experts Siggelkow and Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
technology on the newspaper business with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne in this e-mail interview. An article based on Gilbert's doctoral research in this area received the Robert Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award in the Academy of... View Details
Payal Agrawal Divakaran
Payal is a Partner at .406 Ventures, where she co-leads the healthcare investing practice. .406 Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm with over $1.4B under management. Since its founding in 2005, .406 Ventures has never wavered from its View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital;#43;#Healthcare
- Career Coach
Jon Puz
background spans from small to large companies across most sectors of the industry (particularly health IT / digital health, healthcare services, provider, payor, and some pharma/biotech). Jon also has technology, management consulting... View Details