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- April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)
By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust...
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Keywords:
Markets;
Auctions;
Bids and Bidding;
Demand and Consumers;
Consumer Behavior;
Analytics and Data Science;
Market Design;
Digital Platforms;
Market Transactions;
Marketplace Matching;
Supply and Industry;
Analysis;
Price;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
Michigan;
Detroit
Farronato, Chiara, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb, and Julia Kelley. "StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 621-107, April 2021. (Revised July 2021.)
- March 2009
- Teaching Note
Dogus Group: Weighing Partners for Garanti Bank (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu
Teaching Note for [709401].
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- April 1991 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry (B)
By: David J. Collis
Describes the contest for the takeover of Anderson Clayton as industry players compete for one of the seven major dog food makers.
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Business or Company Management;
Bids and Bidding;
Competition;
Corporate Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry
Collis, David J. "Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 391-195, April 1991. (Revised August 1995.)
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809052 PepsiCo's Bid for Quaker Oats (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 209-078 Second in a series on PepsiCo's bid for...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
outlast its pandemic peers when the New York Times makes an unexpected bid to acquire it. Come dissect the journey of one entrepreneur and his viral product as he debates a 7-figure exit before earning his...
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- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708480 Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (A) Harvard Business School Case 708-453 In late 2002, global confectionery and beverage maker Cadbury Schweppes needed to...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
When the case opens, a fictitious developer, Rance Hollen, is at a critical juncture: Weighing the cost of capital, construction, and expected market prices for developed units, should Hollen meet the government's minimum View Details
- June 2001
- Case
ESL Golf (B)
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Christopher R Gordon
Supplements the (A) case.
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- July 2005
- Article
Price Improvement in Dealership Markets
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Price improvement refers to the practice whereby dealers order executions that improve on quoted prices. Why are these improvements given? Standard thinking is that competition causes dealers to give better prices to customers with less information. This paper...
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Keywords:
Price;
Markets;
Competition;
Information;
Customers;
Negotiation;
Mission and Purpose;
Practice;
Theory;
Performance Improvement;
Bids and Bidding;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew. "Price Improvement in Dealership Markets." Journal of Business 78, no. 4 (July 2005): 1137–1172.
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
The Results Are (Mostly) In
veterans are uniquely qualified for bipartisan work. State Senate First elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 2014 and a state representative for five years before that, Jason Lewis (MBA 1995) succeeded in his View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
Internet Auctions" currently in press in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Malhotra says the research carries lessons for business people who bid on everything from...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up for Grabs
WHITMAN: After a successful career at eBay, going for the gold in California. Making her biggest bid in a career built on bids, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) threw her hat into the ring in September View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608080 Bidding on Martha's Vineyard (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-044 To buy a desirable Martha's Vineyard property, Robert and Sally...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
solo. He found it in a unique set of data: leases for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Firms competing to drill in the region have historically bid on 5,000-acre tracts, submitting sealed View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
problem for the consortium is how much to raise its previous bid. A reasonable bid must be based upon how much value the private equity consortium can create through improvements in Hertz's global operations on the one hand, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 2009
- Simulation
Finance Simulation: Blackstone/Celanese (Facilitator's Guide)
By: Nabil N. El-Hage, Timothy A. Luehrman and Heide Diener Abelli
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
Few student exploits over the summer could match the power lunch enjoyed by Reginald Sanders (HBS '02), who broke bread and talked business with Jack Welch, the legendary force behind General Electric. Sanders earned the honor of dining...
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- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog." Literary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
America Harvard Business School Case 908-004 Describes the auction of Cable & Wireless America (CWA), a bankrupt subsidiary of the British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. While an initial "stalking-horse" View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-021 Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business Shortly after submitting their best and final...
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by Sean Silverthorne