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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
hospital association buying groups. For their part, the buying groups try to get as many products and services as they can for whatever fee they've agreed to pay in the contract. Owens & Minor decided to offer its customers the option... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
simulate counterfactuals, and develop tentative implications for pricing policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-034.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (A) Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way to not only get what you want,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
masks also weren’t an option as Vietnam, where Lovepop sources materials, imposed export restrictions on the masks. They eventually settled on full face shields, which could be made using the industrial laser die-cutters at Lovepop’s... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
prices of used ships to fall by as much as 80%. As ship prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307009 LinkedIn (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-406 In the summer of 2005, LinkedIn, a two-year-old start-up, was choosing between two options... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
reserve prices and other parameters that substantially determine prices. Contrary to Google's claims, Google's auction does not fully determine prices; Google's actions and policies importantly influence prices. Google's purchase of... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
it, sell it only online? If not, what is the requisite assortment we should carry? What's the appropriate pricing in the store? They decided on a limited assortment in-store, that is mostly private label and where View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-053.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
visual evidence. Additional areas of collecting interest include documenting women in business and the significance of family business. Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Novel Prize Research of Robert... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
profit than a constant emissions price under an emissions tax, which contradicts popular arguments that the greater uncertainty under cap-and-trade will erode value. We further show that two operational drivers underlie this result: i)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
option leads to a fourteen-fold increase in the ex-post licensing rate. Two additional experimental interventions are designed to reduce search costs for (i) price and (ii) product information. Both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
allow it to offer better (higher) prices to consumers on its buy side and so on in a virtuous cycle." —Associate Professor Andrei Hagiu "[I suggest] a modified TOMS Shoes model. From the customer/end-user side: When they want to sell... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States. I found that there was a huge opportunity to disrupt the intimate apparel space. People are so tired of high prices and... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
Peter Tufano, and Michael Hofmann Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009): 68-75 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the article: http://hbr.org/2009/10/managing-risk-in-the-new-world/ar/1 Behavioral Aspects of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace