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  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

valuations of consumers who have access to vouchers must systematically differ from—and typically be lower than—those of consumers who do not have access to vouchers. Offering vouchers is more profitable for merchants that are patient or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 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
  • 15 May 2019
  • Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

accidently, as sources are written in languages not easily understood. The globalization of the world in the 19th century, as a third speaker discussed, has been written from a Euro-centric perspective. In reality, the bazaars and local View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education
  • 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
  • 12 Oct 2006
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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
  • 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
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 17 Apr 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses. Next Street was a for-profit business that aimed to increase the growth, profitability, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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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
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

reflections of capitalism; the rise of accounting and accountability; the origins of industrial policy in the West; and the ways in which merchants and bankers thought about risk, particularly the deadly risk of international trade. Just... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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