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- May 2014
- Article
Information and Two-Sided Platform Profits
By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda
We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. In contrast, we allow the other side (users) to... View Details
Keywords: Responsive Expectations; Passive Expectations; Wary Expectations; Information; Performance Expectations; Two-Sided Platforms; Monopoly
Hagiu, Andrei, and Hanna Halaburda. "Information and Two-Sided Platform Profits." International Journal of Industrial Organization 34 (May 2014): 25–35.
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
What Roosevelt Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903-29
Keywords: by Noel Maurer & Carlos Yu
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
American retailers are heading into a holiday shopping season unlike any other as the spiraling COVID-pandemic and limp economy threaten consumer spending. We asked Harvard Business School faculty members—in particular, authors of recent retail case studies—what... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
model, poor people give little because they expect donations to come mainly from richer individuals. In others, donations by poor individuals constitute a large fraction of donations, and this raises the incentive for poor people to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
about why they wish to make additional investments in a particular initiative. Managers should be extremely wary if they hear responses such as: "Well, we have put so much money into this already. We don't want to waste all of those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
reasonable profits and reduced Hepatitis C, and rates of which are expected to fall by 86 percent between 2020 and 2030, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health. This real-world example demonstrates how a business model can help Big... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
computer-based recommendation technology to help consumers make decisions. Yeomans' findings shed light on the hurdles that AI technology will need to overcome to win over wary consumers. The team enlisted 75 pairs of people, including... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
and race of its residents. "The more time they expect to spend at a landmark, the more they concentrate other Whites around that landmark." The researchers found that White participants indicated a distinct preference for bringing other... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
moving target, potential customers are wary of costs and implementation complexities, and use cases, while powerful, are still lacking in many areas. Take advantage of uncertainty All this uncertainty is a fertile breeding ground for... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
reminder to shareholders and others of the reasonableness of CEO compensation. We can expect a deluge of stories comparing the compensation ratios for various CEOs. Reporters won't even have to do the math behind the stories. As a former... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://hbr.org/2013/10/fergusons-formula/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Corporate Venturing By: Lerner, Josh Abstract—For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
solution, but they understandably dislike this approach, finding it especially tacky. One first step is for merchants to review the exact text to be shown to consumers. Be wary of vague language: "excludes special offers"... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
growth. While I expected this based on theoretical frameworks, we have come to associate entrepreneurship with novelty so strongly that I was nevertheless surprised to see that mimicry was beneficial even to young firms that typically do... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
have important implications for leaders in three distinct areas. First, he points out, it is inappropriate for managers in developing countries to assume they can simply transfer American concepts and systems to their own economic settings and View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
accountability of financial reporting practice in the broader capital market system, he explains. "We can use some of the insights of these 30 years of research to study this much broader, much more difficult subject, which is accounting for externalities."... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
firms ushered in increasingly accommodating policies to attract and retain staff. Turnover rates steadily decreased, while compensation expectations increased. This has fundamentally challenged the long-standing “up or out” model: As... View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
impression that a private equity firm is unstable. That perception creates a wariness to invest, which means a PE firm often struggles in its attempts to raise the next fund. So in essence, founding partners are damaging their own firms,... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
receive, they are very focused on comparisons. Q: In the discussion of dysfunctional competition you talk about the harm of using tax dollars to build new sports facilities to retain professional sports teams. Doesn't this type of spending bring income to a city? Why... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
Sawyer adds, “Gleason and others argued that their version of fair trade—albeit domestic oriented—offered higher wages, better services, and quality guarantees.” Prior to Gleason entering the scene, fair trade efforts had fallen flat. Americans had long been View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
Consumers are increasingly wary about sharing personal information with firms. Yet when they benefit from providing information in exchange for lower prices or better services, many consumers will gladly make the privacy trade-off. But... View Details