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- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
connections can be a source of information about the FDA approval process and offer insights as to how to market and sell the young firm's products. They can also provide resources and contacts to facilitate these tasks. Another... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia’s impending bankruptcy, the FDIC intervened again, voting on Monday, September 29, to sell Wachovia’s retail bank to Citigroup for $1 a share. Three days later, Wells Fargo offered $7 a share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
develop a supply model to predict product development responses to changes in store locations. Through policy simulations, I discover that the firm uses outlet stores to serve lower-value consumers who self-select by traveling to outlet stores from central shopping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
In today's world, we are each on our own. We must each be vigilant to protect our right to privacy. We have to worry about protecting ourselves from the people who sell us things as well as those who employ us. But in the world of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at least 50 basis points over ten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
influences scientists' hazards of transitioning to for-profit science. With Friends Like These: The Art of Managing Complementors Authors:David B Yoffie and Mary Kwak Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 9 (September 2006) Abstract Intel and Microsoft neither buy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
shoppers, these online sellers might actually be losing out by being so generous with this, given that our estimates imply that frequent shoppers might be more, rather than less, willing to pay a shipping fee," Ngwe says. Instead of free shipping, retailers like... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
months. Marketing for the program was also eliminated. While all banks sell bonds, the $.50 to $.85 they earn for each transaction gives them little financial incentive to make the process easy for consumers. Finally, the Treasury's... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
accounts for their staying power, and where do you fault them? A: Those two classics were published within a few months of each other almost twenty-five years ago. They continue to sell thousands of copies a week. On the surface, they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Philippines, the U.S., and most recently, China. Aspiring Minds had seen success as a business-to-business (B2B) entity, creating and selling technology products geared towards industry verticals. By 2015 the business-to-consumer (B2C)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
contemporary apparel and home furnishings that STFC then helps to market and sell around the world. Organized as a producers' cooperative, STFC is owned by its artisan members. STFC is thinking of changing to for-profit status because it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
long espoused a “doing well by doing good” philosophy going back to founding figure William Lever. In the late nineteenth century, Lever had built a business by making and selling household soap that he hoped would improve hygiene and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
providing new free housing to tens of thousands of slum dwellers, which is anticipated to be paid for from the revenues from developing and selling market-rate housing. While the primary concerns are cost of construction, cost of capital,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
discourage IP owners from selling and trading it in ways that may provide short-term business benefits but damage long-term international competition. For example, companies wishing access to China’s huge markets often have to enter into... View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
from the "innovation game" comes from the kind of entrepreneurial behavior that adapts and combines high-level ideas and know-how, adjusts them to the needs of particular markets, and actually sells them to willing buyers.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
the authors of Built to Last (creating the impression that "built to last" is Twentieth Century management thinking) may help sell books, there are perhaps fewer contrasts in the conclusions of the two books than one might... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
"day-traders"-do-it-yourselfers who buy and sell individual stocks daily, often holding them for just minutes at a time. Notes Bruce Johnstone, "Online traders have become a potent force and one that I believe is having an... View Details