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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy discounters lowered View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
importance. The paper explores how this heuristic can produce erroneous inferences and influence broader beliefs about decision-makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54771 forthcoming RAND Journal of Economics The View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
put flesh on the bones of independence, the USA and USSR were eager to offer aid and advice to promote their own models. The PRC, suffering the consequences of a century-long tangle with imperialism and decades of war coupled with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
television brings people together and lets advertisers build giant brands and promote broad cultural trends, the Web segments the audience into small pockets of interest. Mass marketers have a whole new game to learn if they aspire to... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
facing a venture with an historically premium-priced strategy in an ecommerce environment where promotions and discounts have become the norm. The case concerns the interaction of branding, channel, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
and square," was a central component of the new strategy. The scheme initially had three pricing tiers and eliminated typical sales promotions in an attempt to simplify the shopping experience for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
were being purchased, with each factory having its own suppliers and price points. While this revelation was itself startling, the manager maximized its impact by inviting the company's division presidents into a boardroom where samples... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Kirin 970 chipset, which boasted having the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) mobile processor. They had to decide how to position, communicate, and price the new phones. Yet beyond these near-term decisions, a major challenge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
options should be rethought in many organizations. First, there is the issue of whether options are the best means of promoting shareholders' best interests in established companies. While making an exception for "cash-poor start-up... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
Robots, the local basketball team. The Ibaraki Robots have now, in five years, grown its revenues eight times, grown attendance five times, and been promoted to a top category league just like the NBA in the US . The second thing we did... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-099.pdf Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Community-based initiatives that work to empower the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
percent) that President Nixon (that laissez-faire Republican) imposed wage and price controls, to a world where each of our kids has more computing power on his or her desk, and each of us on his or her lap, than all of Harvard had in its... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
said yes and immediately asked to also build an energy practice. “Oil prices were soaring, silicon prices were fluctuating, and solar and wind were huge topics at that time. I saw that as an opportunity,”... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract—We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne