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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
rather than what they want? Is it reasonable for employers to be allowed a tax benefit for paying for health insurance benefits, but not their employees, when the insurance is primarily funded through reductions in employee income? Must health insurance View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
pricing in quarters where they have a financial incentive to close a deal, resulting in mispricing that costs the vendor 6%-8% of revenue. Robustness checks demonstrate that price View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Southwest Airlines: In a Different World (TN)
By: James L. Heskett and W. Earl Sasser
Teaching Note for 910419. View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
adopt third-degree price discrimination based on the income of different consumer classes while foreswearing third-degree price discrimination... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
Joel put it, “Though I get the point that their behavior excludes competitors, the consumer would seem to benefit for now. What I wonder is why there is not more aggressive enforcement where the consumer is clearly being hurt, as demonstrated by excessive View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
of intentions. Uniform prices were thought to enable the sick to buy insurance, and uniform benefits would simplify shopping. But the unintended effect was to shackle competition and to make sick enrollees... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Working Paper
The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries
By: Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng
Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through antidumping measures? We argue that the patterning of antidumping actions is best explained in terms of the political economy of economic restructuring in... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Price; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; China
Abrami, Regina, and Yu Zheng. "The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-042, October 2010.
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54599 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract—We use an experiment to show that employers prefer to hire... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of... View Details
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Strategies for Value Creation (SVC) - Course Catalog
illustrate opposing viewpoints. Course Content and Organization Cases typically analyze the value implications of major strategic decisions or analysis of unique business models. It will utilize more strategy concepts (creating and sustaining View Details
- April 2009 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Dot.com: Online Pet Retailing
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
From 1995 to 1999, the U.S. experienced a period of tremendous growth in its information technology (IT) sector. The IT industry, although it accounted for less than 10% of the U.S. economy's total output, contributed disproportionately to economic growth. One market... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Failure; Competitive Strategy; Online Technology; Retail Industry
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Dot.com: Online Pet Retailing." Harvard Business School Case 809-117, April 2009. (Revised December 2015.)
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
anticipated to nudge governments from polite handshakes to cash commitments. One problem: the price. Although originally envisioned as the "$100 PC," OLPC has struggled to bring the price below $175. And now it faces View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
of competition and the quality of management practices adopted in hospitals. LD: There’s also quite a lot of research demonstrating that hospital consolidation causally leads to higher prices without any... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
of their own significant involvement with those programs. Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss: ending racial discrimination in the community is a business imperative. (photograph by Jamie Tanaka) Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss:... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model... View Details
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Jeanine Barnett
I do what I do because I believe that creativity and competitiveness are not mutually exclusive concepts. Daily, as I draw on fond memories of a Caribbean childhood filled with countless moments on theatre stages and tennis courts, I am... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
dampen competition online and enable price discrimination in-store. Its effectiveness in these respects depends on the decision-making stage of consumers and the heterogeneity... View Details
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Harvard Business School
oppression and discrimination were still a reality in many parts of the country." 6 Darden later recounted, "After Dr. King was assassinated, that really had a major impact on me, so much so that I contemplated dropping out of the MBA... View Details