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- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
price remains a primary determinant of whether a consumer will buy a product, free shipping provides an added enhancement for online merchants to consider. Shoppers are only one-tenth as sensitive to increases in shipping fees as they are... View Details
Frank A. Munsey
Frank Munsey revolutionized the publishing industry by bringing financial rigor to the business. Munsey was a pioneer in connecting advertising prices to circulation volume making large-scale magazine... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Broadband: Remaking the View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
in a recent working paper, Market Solutions to Privacy Problems? And what would consumers get in return for their personal information? Money perhaps, or price discounts, better customer service, maybe products tailored specifically to... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
forecasting processes, while also trying to prepare for unexpected urgent orders and natural disasters. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107018 Google Advertising Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
universal measurement and public reporting Link reimbursement to clinical performance using outcome reporting Set accounting standards for meaningful cost reporting in health care Accelerate the bundled pricing rollout schedule in CMS... View Details
- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
making group sales easier, the new company will allow for dynamic pricing for movie tickets: Theaters set ticket prices, though studios typically set the minimum revenue they will accept per ticket sold,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
across multiple industries. There are at least five kinds of control that could belong to either company or worker, depending on the business model: Price charged to the customer. Equipment used by the worker, Method of service delivery.... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
problems like advertising auctions and market design. The accelerating phenomenon has given rise to a new field within economics called the economics of digitization. Research from the field is quickly finding its way into practice,... View Details
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
capable of producing 40 million gallons a year can be built for an initial cost of between $55 million and $60 million. In 2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
power of unions, competition based on lower prices and costs, the failure of governments to take action—inequality appears to have increased over the past three decades in many parts of the world. A strong economic case can be made that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
Benetton Brain Trust: After learning at the knee of his father, Luciano, Alessandro is taking the family business forward. Working for his family’s company, whose colorful sportswear and controversial advertising made it a brand of... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
rates; no loan origination or guarantee fees; guaranteed approval for all HBS MBA students; availability to any HBS MBA student, without a cosigner, regardless of the student's citizenship; no minimum loan; maximum loan equal to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
from buying stocks, he notes. Minimum prices for shares, for example, put equities out of the reach of many. But by convincing the government to liberalize regulations, Saeki hopes to win public confidence... View Details
- 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
- 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