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- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
existent. "Bribery is a global phenomenon, and people engage in this type of behavior all over the world," Serafeim says. "There are different magnitudes and different extents of bribery, but everywhere in the world you can...
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by Carmen Nobel
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
course, please contact us through our Support Portal . Is there a discount offered for completing multiple courses? Yes. If you’re a new HBS Online learner, you’ll pay full price for your first course and then receive a 30-percent past...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
lasting change. Anything short of definitive action will be too little, too late. It is time we rethink incentives to drive desired behaviors and intended outcomes. It is now clear that we must price in...
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- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
resources to developing open source products. That sort of behavior is initially puzzling to economists because the firm is participating in the development of something that is going to be given away for free. Once you begin studying...
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- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
Authentic Leadership. "Everyone inside and outside the company is watching what they do. It is imperative that they stay focused on their True North as it sets a standard internally for principled business behavior and will make...
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by Martha Lagace
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
historical values has been welcome news for savers. While it is tempting to attribute this behavior of interest rates to inflation, which has experienced a similar evolution, this is not by far the whole story. Real interest rates have...
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- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
more than 100,000 online shoppers, they saw dramatic results. Not only did the site not lose customers, it also experienced huge gains in sales, with products’ average selling price increasing by as much as 38 percent and gross margins...
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- 20 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to be a Customer
at all. Here are five behaviors that, in the eyes of vendors, make for a good customer: Be Demanding. Make sure the vendor knows you have other options, that you're going to seek out more than one bid. Ask for references; a good supplier...
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by John Quelch
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
brick-and-mortar shops: Shove your best deals to the back of the store. Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be difficult to execute...
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- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
and behaviors permanently. Their coping mechanisms may become ingrained and define a new normal. In addition, the competitive landscape will have changed. A competitive shakeout along with new product launches may mean consumers are...
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- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
price. ©iStock.com/Rawpixel Ltd Examples of PWYW pricing abound in all industries: Radiohead's self-released its In Rainbows album with "name your price" downloads; the Dallas Theater Center holds "Pay-What-You-Can"...
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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
Source: Greenwood Source: Greenwood Professor Robin Greenwood notes that faculty members across Harvard have long been exploring the behavioral perspective on financial market bubbles and financial crises. Five years ago, a group formed...
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- September 1992
- Article
Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short-Term Speculation
By: Kenneth Froot, David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein
Froot, Kenneth, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy Stein. "Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short-Term Speculation." Journal of Finance 47, no. 4 (September 1992): 1461–1484. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 3250, February 1990.)
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
a new working paper. “We find that routine customers have higher value to the organization, even after controlling for their level of consumption,” Ascarza says. These customers may also tolerate price increases better and even stay loyal...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
1960), former chief economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada The United States has the worst of all worlds: a relatively high marginal tax rate that influences behavior negatively, but a considerably lower average tax rate that precludes...
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- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
more than most. What they own, how they dress, what they do. In other words, their consumption behavior becomes an important signaling device to attract efficiently the right set of new friends and acquaintances. It's not so much a matter...
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by John Quelch
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
of scarcity has not been repealed by the digital Long Tail prices are set by demand, not the constraints of supply." Edward Hare opened an aspect of the debate that several commented on when he said, "The rules of economics have...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
from consumers shopping at the more popular store. Second, the intermediary may have an incentive to degrade the quality of search even further when its design decision influences the prices charged by stores. By altering the composition...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
important for mechanism designers to think more about creating learnable mechanisms, the clamped second price auction mechanism in fact produces slower learning in human subjects than the standard second View Details
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Martha Lagace