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  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712402-PDF-ENG Language and Globalization: 'Englishnization' at Rakuten Tsedal NeeleyHarvard Business School Case 412-002 Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten (Japan's largest online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

economically more valuable, in keeping with the values of fine art more generally. Q: Why did you use the Indian art market as the basis for your study on how categories evolve? A: Our interest began when we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Real Property Negotiation Game. Porus Bank must decide to which buyers they must learn and at what terms. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209031 Real Property Negotiation Game: Seller Case,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

CarOrder.com, an online auto seller that began in Trilogy Software's corporate incubator. According to CarOrder.com founder Brian Stafford, the critical benefit that Trilogy provided was rapid access to... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

Note 607-074 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607074 Tickle Harvard Business School Case 807-100 Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of a rapidly growing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/challenges.pdf Information Risk and Fair Values: An Examination of Equity Betas Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Private Equity Finance Vignettes: 2016 This case contains four vignettes that provide an introduction to the issues covered in the course, Private Equity Finance. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream product was coming online from other parts of the world, including Russia. As a result, Alcoa had lost its historical market dominance and stock premium. Belda was convinced that for Alcoa to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

sellers face a fundamental strategy decision: Should they be resellers (like supermarkets), acquiring and then reselling products or services? Should they operate as multisided platforms (like eBay), connecting buyers and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t By: Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti Abstract— In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

for sure. Second, being able to pick the most likely winners is incredibly valuable—this probably is both an art and a science. An ability to analyze information on market trends and past winners and losers is very helpful, but in the end... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

audience. Even though the climate can be hot and humid, few Chinese residents have air conditioners; they are too expensive. So even a crummy but inexpensive air conditioner that could service a 10-foot-by-10-foot room could be a big View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

express inconsistent beliefs about the product suitable from them, and mention they have received advice from another seller of insurance, they are more likely to receive suitable advice. Agents provide better advice to more sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Bonnie (MBA '90), CEO of CNET, whose Web sites—not to mention a radio station and several print magazines—provide a wealth of information to technology buffs and buyers alike. Founded in 1992, CNET has fared so well in the marketplace that last summer it bought the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

announcement, served as a credible commitment to the government's privatization agenda. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13427 Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

first-party content and third-party seller participation are complements (substitutes) then 1) a monopoly platform facing favorable expectations invests more (less) in first-party content than a platform facing unfavorable expectations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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