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Matchmakers
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Matchmakers

by David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee
May 2016
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 20m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Chapter 13
Slower and Faster Than You Think
What History Teaches Us about the Future of Matchmakers
More than thirty thousand people will run the Boston Marathon on April 18, 2016. Many runners will come from out of town and will bring their families along for support. They will need places to stay. Getting a hotel room in the city isn’t easy when the town is packed. Not to mention that hotel rooms are particularly expensive then.
That was a problem in the past for people who didn’t plan far ahead. They’d have to resort to putting ads on Craigslist to find somebody’s spare room or to stay at a hotel far away from the starting and finish lines. As one runner put it in 2014, “I’m ready to roll; I’m in shape; I just don’t know where I’m ...
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ISBN: 9781633691735