Intermediary - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 May 2014
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The 27 best health and science books to read this summer

16 Oct 2014
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How to fix the broken market for middle-class jobs

01 Mar 2013
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Do You Really Want to Be an eBay?

14 Nov 2014
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High-Frequency Traders Turn to the Online Ad Market

28 Sep 2023
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Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

across and between the 104 clubs, SIGs, and liaisons, so that her team need only serve as intermediary where needed. In addition to Stockwell,Kristina Anderson recently joined the team as the new Assistant Director. She brings nearly 15... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service

01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

anticipate using financial statements to evaluate and pursue opportunities in global commerce and finance. Competing Globally is designed for those who will work as managers, analysts, or consultants to corporations that operate in multiple product and geographic... View Details

Keywords: curriculum

01 Feb 1999
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Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS

increasingly imitated "direct-access" business model. Designed to deal directly with the customer via phone or the Internet, Dell shuns intermediaries such as retailers and distributors and builds computers according to the customer's... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

are putting pressure on intermediaries to do more with the companies that they’ve invested in. That’s in both the public and the private markets. And so at this point I don’t think it’s a question of whether this is niche or mainstream.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

developments. Myth #3: Intermediaries are dead. Intermediaries are a fact of life to some degree, Bezos asserted. The litmus test will be who adds value and who doesn't. Myth #4: There are going to be only a... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Internet Tsunami

Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details

Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

created—or the revolution that will be triggered in the decades to come by genome sequencing, or by the fact that space is now increasingly accessible. In some sense, the information intermediaries that we have taken for granted in the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

06 Nov 2009
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Health Reform Paths Not Taken

Herzlinger points to Switzerland as a model system without a government-run plan. “What I like about it is that it’s got universal coverage, it’s customer driven, and there are no intermediaries shopping on people’s behalf,” she recently... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan

reported. From there on it is only a matter of aligning the money with the causes they care about. Perhaps investment intermediaries will emerge to ease the introductions and connections. There may be some consolidation of nonprofits at... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Mar 2004
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The Business of Babies

involved with the ultimate suppliers. It’s a market suited to intermediaries such as brokers, lawyers, and agents,” she observed. The emphasis in egg and sperm donor profiles on intelligence and physical attributes also raises the specter... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

inherent in online trading. "The online consumer can execute a trade for up to 90 percent less than a traditional broker's fee," Light points out. "Consequently, the intermediaries in the financial services industry-the brokers-are really... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2024
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What is Web3?

over their own digital assets typically secured and facilitated by blockchain technology in a decentralized manner. Unlike in traditional centralized systems where ownership is often determined and managed by intermediaries such as large... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief

(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to understanding the changing role of information and View Details