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Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results

By: Benjamin Edelman and Zhenyu Lai
The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its... View Details
Keywords: Search Engine; Organic Search; Sponsored Search Advertising; User Interface; Channel Substitution; Search Technology; Consumer Behavior; Online Advertising
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Uniform Rate Setting and the Deposit Channel

By: Juliane Begenau and Erik Stafford
U.S. banks predominantly use uniform deposit rate setting policies, particularly the largest banks. Uniform rate setting ignores local market concentration, and is therefore inconsistent with the identification strategy used to provide cross-sectional evidence of the... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Financial Markets; Interest Rates; Banking Industry
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The Cost Structure, Customer Profitability, and Retention Implications of Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel

By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
This paper uses the context of online banking to investigate the consequences of employing self-service distribution channels to alter customer interactions with the firm. Using a sample of retail banking customers observed over a 30-month period at a large U.S. bank,... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Service Operations; Distribution Channels; Consumer Behavior; Internet and the Web; Banks and Banking; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Market Transactions; Market Participation; Profit; Retail Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Comprehensive Effects of a Digital Paywall Sales Strategy

By: Doug J. Chung, Ho Kim and Reo Song
This paper explores the multiple and comprehensive effects of a digital paywall sales strategy, an increasingly common means of go-to-market for media firms. Specifically, we examine the effects of a digital paywall on a media firm’s two sources of income—subscription... View Details
Keywords: Digital Paywall; Demand Substitution; Spillover Effect; Synthetic Control; Sales; Strategy; Media; Newspapers; Publishing Industry
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  • 18 Sep 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Steven Tadelis, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business

  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

When TV Nova launched in 1992 as the first new television channel in post-communist Czechoslovakia, few might have imagined the joint-venture drama unfolding behind the scenes. Distinguished for bringing Baywatch, soccer matches, and sexy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 22 Feb 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy

Keywords: by Timothy Derdenger & Vineet Kumar; Video Game
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

research here , and Jeffrey’s other research here . More Info Loan types and the bank lending channel By: Victoria Ivashina , Luc Laeven & Enrique Moral-Benito MAR 2022 There are four main types of commercial credit: asset-based loans,... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

essentially "raffle off" the interest pot each period. Savers give up a large chance of a small return for a small chance of a large, life-changing return. I have studied these programs in England, where they have been run for over 50 years, as well as in South Africa.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 21 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

top-down, generic approaches to communicating their plans with their employees. Although mass emails and newsletters are not problematic in and of themselves, they are no substitute for the kind of communication this moment calls... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

Beset by changes on several fronts, the media industry, traditionally comprising the familiar print and broadcast channels of mass communication, has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years, change that appears certain to... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell

example helped Cassell consider becoming a teacher himself. "It was fascinating to observe how Steve's channeling of the children's excitement about their ideas led students to 'discover' things such as drawing to scale and abstract... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
  • 16 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

Several best practices, as explained by past and current masters of judo strategy, can help you reach the top of your game. While there are no substitutes for mastering the concepts of judo strategy and carefully studying your industry... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Innovation, Inc.

remarks. “But if you mention a folding bicycle, most people conjure up an image of a small-wheeled, oddly shaped vehicle that they wouldn’t categorize as a ‘real’ bicycle. The challenge is to change the beliefs and behaviors of both consumers and the distribution View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1865878 The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments Authors:Qiang Liu, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Sachin Gupta Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

find that customer adoption of online banking is associated with (1) substitution primarily from incrementally more costly self-service delivery channels (ATM and voice response unit); (2) augmentation of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

banks understand the tradeoffs that the public is willing to accept in terms of unemployment for inflation, at least in terms of keeping the average level of one particular emotion (contentment) constant. An alternative use of these data is to study the particular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

this product was so superior to other channels of financing. We also started hearing the phrase, 'These structures create yield out of thin air.' It implies magic, or a violation of a very standard notion in finance, a Modigliani-Miller... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

  PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

customization to the online environment and credible monitoring and punishments. I analyze the pricing, enforcement, and channel management policies of a manufacturer over several years. During this period, new View Details