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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

environments. Highlights How do managers determine demand to inform pricing strategy? Step into the shoes of Jim Holtzman, CEO of Ace Ticket, and learn about pricing strategy for super bowl tickets. Show Hide Details Modules Customer... View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
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  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Gable, and J.B. Schramm. Building The On Demand Workforce , Report, Harvard Business School and BCG, November 2020. With Manjari Raman, James Palano, Allison Bailey, Nithya Vaduganathan, Elizabeth Kaufman, Renée Laverdière, and Sibley... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

large scale helps distribute the fixed costs, reducing per-transaction cost. Narayana Hrudalaya, for instance, has installed cutting-edge expensive equipment for heart procedures, but the high volume of its operations drives down per-procedure cost. View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

commercially available version of GPT-3 to elicit thousands of simulated customer responses and found that AI can produce demand patterns that resemble those of human studies. “Utilizing this tool, which is in some ways a consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 26 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

restaurants, causing consumers to avoid those with bad ratings. Restaurants, in turn, often respond by cleaning up their act, according to an analysis of Yelp reviews, OpenTable reservations, and data from the New York City Department of... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

behavioral ethics is better suited than traditional approaches to address the increasing demand from society for a deeper understanding of what causes even good people to cross ethical boundaries. Schumpeterian Competition and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

By: Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova
Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when goods designated for a foreign market are resold domestically. One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices... View Details
Keywords: Price; Multinational Firms and Management; Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Business and Government Relations; Sales; Competitive Strategy
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  • 21 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

strategy is built around the value proposition, which is the demand side of the equation. But a robust strategy requires a tailored value chain—it's about the supply side as well, the unique configuration of activities that delivers... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

power. Their findings suggest that there is significant heterogeneity in banks’ ability to capture value by manufacturing safe assets. See Mark’s other research here , Stefan’s other research here , and Adi’s other research here . More Info Rate-amplifying View Details
  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

of analysis afterward. “These debates are often great moments of television,” Pons says. “We all remember the gaffes that candidates make as well as the memorable comebacks. Debates are entertaining.” Who could forget Trump calling... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

(the online application is available beginning April 1, 2024) Note that demand for the program (i.e., the size of the applicant pool and availability of funds) will determine the number of GO Africa Fellowships the School is able to grant... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

components of traditional newspaper companies—print subscription, print advertising, digital subscription, and digital advertising—finds that for companies with high circulations and large amounts of exclusive content, paywalls can increase overall sales, often by... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

regulate the industry. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52032 Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • March–April 2023
  • Article

Market Segmentation Trees

By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis
Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market... View Details
Keywords: Decision Trees; Computational Advertising; Market Segmentation; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Marketplace Matching; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing
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  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

response organizations to adopt very different leadership strategies if they are effectively to cope with the differential demands of these events. In this paper, we develop further ideas about leadership under crisis conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2019
  • Case

Understanding the Brand Equity of Nestlé Crunch Bar: A Market Research Case

By: Jill Avery and Gerald Zaltman
In early 2018, Nestlé announced the sale of its U.S. candy-making division and a select collection of 20 of its confectionery brands, including the Nestlé Crunch Bar, to Ferrero SpA for $2.8 billion. Under the terms of the Nestlé acquisition, each of the purchased... View Details
Keywords: Brand Equity; Marketing; Market Research; Qualitative Research; Marketing Communication; Customer Satisfaction; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; North America; Italy
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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg