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- 20 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Stock Market Returns and Consumption
- January 2019 (Revised December 2020)
- Module Note
Market Attractiveness
By: Ashish Nanda
As a strategist, you must understand and calibrate the environment in which your organization operates. How generous or challenging is the environment? What forces drive the munificence or sparseness of your environment? How are those forces changing, and what is their...
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Nanda, Ashish. "Market Attractiveness." Harvard Business School Module Note 719-467, January 2019. (Revised December 2020.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s
By: Grace Ballor
Many products—from consumer electronics to machinery to children’s toys—bear the CE Mark, the symbol of conformity to the ‘essential requirements’ of European standards governed by the process of CE Marking. This working paper traces the development of the system of...
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Keywords:
Business And Government;
Market Liberalization;
Standards;
Markets;
Trade;
Integration;
Business History;
Globalization;
Business and Government Relations;
Europe;
European Union
Ballor, Grace. "The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-142, June 2021.
- February 2010
- Supplement
Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis (CW)
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
This Excel worksheet contains sample problems, prebuilt Excel models to run market sizing and market share analyses, and charts and graphs which help visualize the results. It is designed to accompany Marketing Analysis Tookit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis....
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- February 2015
- Article
Risk, Information, and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing
By: Benjamin Edelman and Wesley Brandi
We examine online affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to...
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Keywords:
Affiliate Marketing;
Incentives;
Fraud;
Advertising;
Internet and the Web;
Marketing Communications;
Ethics;
Digital Marketing
Edelman, Benjamin, and Wesley Brandi. "Risk, Information, and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 52, no. 1 (February 2015): 1–12. (Lead Article.)
- Research Summary
Marketing and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets
In his research on pharmaceutical markets, Professor King explores how marketing and product differentiation affect competition among firms in the prescription market for anti-ulcer drugs. Four main results emerge from an analysis of antiulcer drug sales from 1977 to...
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- 10 May 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Consumer Inertia and Market Power
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by Alexander MacKay and Marc Remer
- Clubs
German-Speaking Society
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
(2) technologies capable of addressing the demands of the new markets, and (3) a new enterprise logic that can link employees, technologies, and markets in new ways. Today's...
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by Martha Lagace
- Clubs
Salsa Society
- November 2020
- Article
Taxation in Matching Markets
By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,...
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Dupuy, Arnaud, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Taxation in Matching Markets." International Economic Review 61, no. 4 (November 2020): 1591–1634.
- March 1997
- Background Note
Asymmetric Information: Market Failures, Market Distortions, and Market Solutions
Presents a conceptual framework for thinking about markets characterized by asymmetric information. Presents the standard economic analysis of "the lemons problem," and demonstrates how asymmetric information may lead to market inefficiencies and alter the distribution...
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Keywords:
Competitive Strategy
Corts, Kenneth S. "Asymmetric Information: Market Failures, Market Distortions, and Market Solutions." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-100, March 1997.
- October 1995
- Article
New Trading Practices and Short-Run Market Efficiency
By: Kenneth A. Froot and André Perold
Keywords:
Institutional Investing;
Market Efficiency;
Behavioral Finance;
Equities;
Stock Market;
Indexing;
Financial Markets;
Asset Pricing
Froot, Kenneth A., and André Perold. "New Trading Practices and Short-Run Market Efficiency." Journal of Futures Markets 15, no. 7 (October 1995): 731–766. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 3498, October 1990.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Heterogeneous Investors and Stock Market Fluctuations
By: Odhrain McCarthy and Sebastian Hillenbrand
We introduce a heterogeneous agent model which features extrapolative beliefs and time-varying risk aversion. The model leads to an empirical framework which we estimate with stock prices, survey data and risk aversion measures. We find that extrapolative beliefs and...
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McCarthy, Odhrain, and Sebastian Hillenbrand. "Heterogeneous Investors and Stock Market Fluctuations." Working Paper, January 2022.
- November 1996 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Stephanie L. Woerner
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) runs one of the nation's most important research libraries and a museum focusing on colonial history. Financial analysis shows that the society has absorbed increased costs of operation over the past decade through slow but...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Cost;
Human Resources;
Leadership Style;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Managerial Roles;
Mission and Purpose;
Corporate Strategy;
Pennsylvania
Greyser, Stephen A., and Stephanie L. Woerner. "Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The." Harvard Business School Case 597-062, November 1996. (Revised February 1997.)
- 09 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet The HBS Sound Society
entertainment powerhouse on campus. It all starts with the students. One of the goals of the club has been to showcase the amazing talent that HBS students possess. We’ve hosted Pub Night and Spangler Night Live events featuring...
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Keywords:
Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 30 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
initiative’s faculty chair, who is also the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for culture and community. “One of our main goals is to ground discussions about...
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- summer 1993
- Article
Market Research and Marketing Dialects
Cespedes, Frank V. "Market Research and Marketing Dialects." Marketing Research 10 (summer 1993): 26–34.
- January 2011 (Revised November 2015)
- Case
The National Geographic Society (A)
By: David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Information Publishing;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Internet;
Publishing Industry
Garvin, David A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "The National Geographic Society (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-002, January 2011. (Revised November 2015.)