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  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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 industrial parts and suppliers.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, primarily in developing countries, both colonial and independent. In the domestic economy, large single product firms became the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

challenging Chinese macroeconomic environment, SOHO China, the largest owner and developer of Class-A real estate in Beijing and Shanghai, was struggling to convince analysts of the merits of its new “build-to-hold” strategy. Founded as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

deliver manpower and supplies overseas, Kaiser, who had never built a ship before, rose to the challenge and successfully directed the construction of thousands of Liberty ships. These merchant vessels gave the U.S. Navy the overwhelming... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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