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  • 21 Jun 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology
  • 19 Sep 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies

Keywords: by Emmanuel Farhi & Andrei Hagiu

    Leila Doumi

    Leila Doumi is a PhD Candidate in the Strategy Unit and an affiliate of the Digital Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. She conducts research on technology adoption, corporate strategy, and the future of work with a focus... View Details

    • January 2004 (Revised November 2004)
    • Case

    Rwandan Tea Industry, The: Looking into the Future

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In 2003, the Rwandan government was focused on transforming the nation's tea industry into a world-class competitor. To accomplish this objective and stave off the downward prices that plagued the international tea market, the government believed that the industry... View Details
    Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Privatization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Rwanda
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    • 20 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

    Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker
    • August 2016
    • Case

    Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues

    By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bertrand Moingeon, Guo Bai and Jean-François Harvey
    Can a consortium of 16 organizations, including multinational corporations, local government agencies, and startups, turn a rundown Paris suburb into a “smart” (ecologically viable, high-tech, livable) neighborhood? This case explores how Bouygues Immobilier led such a... View Details
    Keywords: Collaboration; Teaming; Cross-industry Collaboration; Interorganizatonal Relationships; Innovation; Nascent Industries; Smart Cities; Governance; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Construction Industry; Paris; France
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    • 18 Oct 2010
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

    MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services
    • June 2012 (Revised December 2017)
    • Case

    Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Espen Storli
    Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys the historical growth of commodity trading, especially in metals, from the late nineteenth century, and its evolving... View Details
    Keywords: Commodity Market; Natural Resources; Metals and Minerals; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Mining Industry; Africa; Europe; Middle East; North and Central America; Israel; South Africa; Iran
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    • spring 1987
    • Article

    Second-Sourcing and the Experience Curve: Price Competition in Defense Procurement

    By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
    We examine a dynamic model of price competition in defense procurement that incorporates the experience curve, asymmetric cost information, and the availability of a higher cost alternative system. We model acquisition as a two-stage process in which initial production... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Government and Politics; Price; Competition; Mathematical Methods
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    • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
    • Case

    StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)

    By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
    Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
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    • Winter 2019
    • Article

    From the Digital to the Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Abbey Stemler
    Online marketplaces have transformed how we shop, travel, and interact with the world. Yet, their unique innovations also present a panoply of challenges for communities and states. Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that... View Details
    Keywords: Marketplaces; Peer To Peer; Sharing Economy; Decentralized; Regulation; Preemption; Markets; Internet; Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; United States
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    • 16 Sep 2021
    • News

    OpenSea, Amid Insider Trading Controversy, Rolls Out NFT Marketplace App

      SoundCloud: Subscription Streaming?

      Established in 2007, by early 2014 SoundCloud already boasted the second largest number of active music listeners among all streaming services and was recognized as the go-to platform for new artists. Yet, its founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss were... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Mobile web advertising: maximum entropy banner allocation

      The worldwide mobile advertising market, currently $3 billion in size, is expected to grow to $20 billion by 2011.  Online and mobile advertising employs two main pricing models: pay-per-click (CPC) and pay-per-impression (CPM).  To date, most of the... View Details

        Michael A. Wheeler

        Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

        Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government
        • August 2022 (Revised February 2023)
        • Case

        NewLab: Scaling an Innovation Engine

        By: Tarun Khanna and George Gonzalez
        Silicon Valley-veteran Shaun Stewart is the CEO of NewLab, a dynamic technology hub headquartered in the storied Brooklyn Navy Yard. Founded in 2016, NewLab fostered a community of entrepreneurs, corporate and government partners, and investors, all seeking to apply... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social and Collaborative Networks; Global Range; Partners and Partnerships; Networks; Growth and Development Strategy; Opportunities; Brooklyn
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        • 26 Nov 2001
        • Research & Ideas

        Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

        fared financially as a result of the event, stats from the year 2000 are encouraging. Forty percent of the women entrepreneurs in last year's New England forum collectively raised $100 million in equity... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • September 1999
        • Case

        New Zealand: The Wonder Down Under

        By: Willis M. Emmons III and Kevin W. W. Glasgow
        Long regarded as the most extensive welfare state among the world's industrialized nations, New Zealand embarked on a strategy of radical economic reform/liberalization following a severe foreign exchange crisis in 1984. This case examines the initial reform strategy... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy; Development Economics; New Zealand
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        • Article

        The Influence of Ownership on Accounting Information Expenditures

        This paper analyzes the association between ownership, top management incentives, and expenditures on accounting information. We argue that organizations with privately appointed boards of directors such as for-profit and non-governmental nonprofit organizations use... View Details
        Keywords: Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Ownership; Health Industry
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        • 2010
        • Working Paper

        Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

        By: David Moss
        It has been said that deregulation was an important source of the recent financial crisis. It may be more accurate, however, to say that a deregulatory mindset was an important source of the crisis—a mindset that, to a very significant extent, grew out of profound... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States
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