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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Those selecting earlier settlement options pay higher fees and interest, therefore revealing the level of credit constraints or impatience. We find that more credit constrained or impatient individuals spend their monies more quickly. The mix of cash and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
always been alternative forms of loan capital available, including credit unions, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), merchant cash advances, equipment leasing and factoring products. “Alternative players have the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
Internet," when he and his partner launched Rakuten in 1997, Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) said. The 9,331 merchants who do a brisk business over the Rakuten site, which Mikitani describes as a cross between eBay and Amazon, are now proving... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
Jaffe of the Harvard University Department of Economics. Key concepts include: For retailers, discount vouchers provide price discrimination, letting merchants reach customers who know about the business, but wouldn't ordinarily go there... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
quickly. The mix of cash and merchant transactions is similar between more and less constrained groups. Finally, the primary merchant uses of refunds are to pay for necessities (grocery stores, gas stations,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
media to intensify linkages not only with cardholders, but also with Mastercard’s direct bank and merchant stakeholders. Building on its influential but dated “Priceless” advertising campaign, Raja refocused Mastercard on four “Priceless... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
developing countries are remarkable for their lack of sophistication. Apart from a few stock exchanges and government-appointed regulators, there aren't many reliable intermediaries like credit-rating agencies, investment analysts, View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
in capabilities of their ecosystem. Such firms are woven into the fabric of the business ecosystem just as surely as the textile craftsmen and merchants and traders were woven into the textile business ecosystem in Datini's time. View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
nation. He was probably the greatest merchant in history. Walton had a secret weapon. Humility. He had a natural respect for those 430,000 people who worked for him. This was exhibited not merely through words but more subtly as well.... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Periodical:Harvard Business Review (October 2006) Abstract "Two-sided markets" are platform-mediated markets that exhibit network effects between two distinct groups of users, for example, card holders and merchants in credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
"We got into the investing side of the business primarily because the opportunity was there to buy nonperforming loan portfolios from the RTC," recalls Slaughter. From a merchant banking standpoint, Wall Street barely paid... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
by national policy than they were by informal, local business deals. As Lurtz writes in her research summary, "Here coffee emerged in the hands of a diverse body of participants. Alongside foreign merchants and migrant planters, local... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
for market intermediation: the "merchant" mode, in which the intermediary buys from sellers and resells to buyers; and the "two-sided platform" mode, under which the intermediary enables affiliated sellers to sell directly to affiliated buyers. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
between venture capital and leveraged buyout funds. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807073 PublicationsAccounting: Text and Cases Authors:Robert N. Anthony, David F. Hawkins, and Kenneth View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
MyTime Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book appointments with local View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
design be guided too much by customers’ wants and needs, using off-price distribution channels, and partnering with a mass merchant on a shared collection (e.g., Target and H&M collaborations). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Estée Lauder in 1930. Photograph courtesy of Estée Lauder Companies. The daughter of immigrant merchants in Queens, New York, Estée Lauder, born Josephine Esther Mentzer, began selling skin cream to women in New York City beauty parlors... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
School Case 811-029 Bling Nation, a Palo Alto, California startup, was founded in 2007 as a mobile payment service provider that bypassed industry participants such as Visa and MasterCard. Bling Nation partnered with local community banks and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne