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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors. ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
http://hbr.org/product/what-makes-analysts-say-buy/an/F1211B-PDF-ENG The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic firms respond by issuing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
less, but you still have to get people to your site. There is no price that will cause people to allocate between different choices, which makes this unlike any other market activity.” The bursty nature of online attention also helps... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
services for free, but engages in disclosure by profiling consumers and charging advertisers to target them. In contrast, Microsoft charges a subscription price for Office 365 but does not disclose consumer... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
levels." Others cited evidence that Walmart's model has some practical limitations. Evidence of possible friction was presented by Clark Phippen, who cited symptoms that suggest that Walmart is becoming "arthritic."(1) Employees, he wrote, consider... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
price you can. As you walk out of the shop, you can’t shake the feeling that you just got fleeced—forced to pay just slightly more than a local would pay. The fact is, you are probably right. No matter how vigilant you are, it’s hard to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
ramp-up production as quickly as possible. While Whitacre and Mulally maximize current sales, taking advantage of this opportunity in the near term is not a long-term strategy. All too often, both GM and Ford have squandered similar opportunities by simply raising... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
Zillow created a new feature—immediately copied by competitors—involving selling advertising to agents. It created many more customer contacts than before, and allowed the consumer to contact the agent directly. Zillow also introduced a... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
industries in its preferred direction. We find that exogenous price shocks proved particularly helpful in this regard. The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose Authors:Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
.com sites, and we crawl more than 285,000 of these domains to analyze their revenue sources. We find that 80% are supported by pay-per-click ads, often advertising the correctly spelled domain and its competitors. Another 20% include... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
promotion and advertising had long-run consequences on consumers' buying behavior in two ways: by influencing the brand equity and by affecting the consumers' price sensitivity. Jedidi and colleagues then... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
hypothetical fires. A garment factory in a Third World country with minimal governmental regulatory oversight burns down, killing half of the three hundred women and children employed there; it subsequently becomes clear that the factory's owner failed repeatedly to... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
acquisitions and the price paid per employee are once again fueling headlines. (A better yardstick might be price per user, which in the case of WhatsApp was about $40 for a service with no View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
away from anything but a majority position, Rodriguez said. Illiquid markets are also a turn-off for institutional investors. Only thirty-three companies in Latin America meet the minimum $5 million in daily trading volume most fund... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
competitive vigilance that ultimately pushes them down a path of conformity. They will notice, for example, that competitor A has decided to offer a couple of new features in this market, or that competitor B has raised its prices in that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert