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July 2010 (Revised December 2011)
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Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery

Pricing is one of the most difficult decisions marketers make and the one with the most direct and immediate impact on the firm's financial position. This toolkit will introduce the fundamental terminology and calculations associated with pricing and profitability... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Profit; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry

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20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

research. Learning and Equilibrium as Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Authors:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, R. Slonim, and Greg Barron Periodical:Economic Theory (forthcoming). Special... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

mean and the distribution around that, and then look at the overall shape of what we get, and determine whether we are actually getting something that looks like a realistic demand curve or not,” Israeli explains. When the GPT prompt... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

complicated—and instructive. Kodak suffered from a technology transition in which it lost the benefits of a learning curve to a general-purpose technology platform where there were no entry barriers. It also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities. Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

15 Feb 2022
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When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

be more rewarding. The book weaves in the stories of high-achieving musicians, philosophers, religious leaders, scientists, and Olympic athletes—some who gracefully jumped to the second curve and others who stumbled, and whose despair... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

suspend the emissions reduction law until the state's unemployment rate falls below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. "The cost curves you see in renewable energy are falling fairly predictably," Lassiter says.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

01 Sep 2009
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forces. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 Repetition of Interaction and Learning: An Experimental Analysis Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract The View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

groceries have expanded to takeout and deliveries, and face-to-face meetings have been replaced by video conferences across many sectors of the economy. In China, which is ahead of the curve both in terms of the outbreak and the... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

contributed to what came to be regarded as a target unemployment rate, with anything less causing excessive inflation. At one time, many economists thought this to be as high as 6 percent. The Phillips curve has taken its lumps over the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Nov 2010
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Why Do We Chase Stars?

the time to learn their new company's management processes." Stephen Basikoti put it this way: "The fact that some transplanted leaders do not succeed does not negate the fact that management performance is portable; it simply... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

the individual's ability to cope with and responsibly manage it (for the sake of both the organization and individual). As a general rule of thumb, the risk is probably too great if it will take more than six months to progress far enough along the View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

or Co-locate? Autonomy versus Learning Effects at the United States Patent Office By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson Abstract—While employees might prefer work arrangements that offer greater autonomy, such as... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader

In this excerpt from Chapter 1 of the their book, Dan Ciampa and HBS Professor Michael D. Watkins describe some of the common traps into which new leaders can fall. Falling Behind The Learning Curve Not... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

became. Male doctors performance also improved when emergency rooms had more female doctors. For Huang, the price of that learning curve seems too high for women. “There's lots of these scenarios where... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

toolkit introduces the fundamental terminology and calculations associated with pricing and profitability analysis. Users will learn how to produce and interpret demand curves and calculate the price... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

very much of their profits in new technologies, instead returning profits to shareholders or holding cash? Or is too much of our innovation devoted to "cool apps" that actually reduce productivity? Yet others still argue for patience. There is a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of Experience and the... View Details