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- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
for their lives and careers. “It’s going to be a really fun evening,” Chen says. “We call this ‘friend-raising.’ Yes, we’re fundraising, but we want people to enjoy their time together . The silent auction has some great beach packages,...
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Margie Kelley
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
can frustrate attempts to restructure out of court," Gilson writes. Companies also increasingly using Chapter 11 to expeditiously sell off assets. Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code allows a bankrupt company to sell assets in a competitive View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
negotiations and auctions are the only two ways in which assets get sold in any market economy. There's a deep literature on each of these mechanisms but very little on the interplay between the two—that messy, murky middle ground where...
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by Julia Hanna
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
more than usual. My professor was really concerned and called an ambulance to take me to triage. It was my first time riding in an ambulance and I was very thankful that Harvard insurance covered it. :) I remember My son was born the day before the charity auction,...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism
interest to your means.” Online auction houses like 1stdibs and Paddle8—founded by Aditya Julka and Osman Khan (both MBA 2009)—offer access to collectors of all levels and have made tracking down rare pieces...
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- 21 May 2016
- News
The Age of Consignment
article highlights the efforts of online fashion resellers Material Wrld, founded by Rie Yano and Jie Zheng (both MBA 2010), and thredUP, founded by Christopher Homer and James Reinhart (both MBA 2009) as well as gadget collector Gazelle, cofounded by Israel Ganot (MBA...
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- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
others to raise their bids, and in such a case, sniping may be a winning strategy. Q: How pervasive is sniping and will it eventually wipe out incremental bidding? Can or should eBay and other online auction View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
information in the boilerplate of interest to an investor." In the end, an investment bank is a sales organization not much different from an auction house that sells used furniture. —D. Quinn Mills In...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience, and struggled to find meaning in...
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- 23 May 2018
- News
Winning Bid
housed more than any other vertical in my mind,” Bright told Black Enterprise. “Where else could I go from sourcing and servicing Elvis’s piano to partnering with [designer] Brad Ford to decorate the most expensive penthouse in New York?”...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
diagnose the problem and treat it. The rescue bill calls for the government to auction banks’ distressed mortgage assets to “try to restore the price discovery process so we can figure out what these things are actually worth.” Light...
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- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
customers and auction houses set for themselves that are influenced by those educators." Those prices anchors will still be in place to a degree because Marina Picasso's collection, after all, still...
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- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
Rich and Famous." As they grew richer, pressure increased on those below to trade up. And, as they traded up, pressure increased in turn on the well-off to buy even more—the second home, the big screen TV, and the latest sport-utility vehicle. Enter the big View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
http://or.journal.informs.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/60/5/1199.full.pdf+html Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics Authors:Cary, Matthew, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
steps and re-calculations. As he finds a sports auction house to consign his collection, he watches the auction market and reports on his findings as well as his strategies and...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet advertising. "The proposed...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
outlook, investors will again turn to Mexico." DeRemate.com, an Internet auction house founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, has operations in eight Latin countries and the United States. Its...
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- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
specialized intermediaries emerges over decades to address these issues. There might be auction houses for the wholesaling of goods, companies that specialize in gathering price data for various commodities,...
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by Tarun Khanna
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then...
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