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Jeanine Barnett
struggled with fiscal discipline, but the ones that got it right struck an elusive yet harmonious balance between art and science. Today as an apparel buyer, with every fabric approval and pricing analysis for my assortment, I do what I... View Details
- 05 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future
one of the largest district heating grids in the world, supplying 97% of residential heating needs in the Odense and Otterup areas. Fjernvarme Fyn site visit. Image Source: Bonnie Chen At Fjernvarme Fyn, we toured the central production facility. One of the key selling... View Details
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
sales, the price piece will be one of many points, most of which they're aligned on." Research Associate Knebel points out that while Tom Muccio's approach to Wal-Mart was pioneering for its time, many... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
responsibility for their choices. But co-pays would be the same inside and outside of the network. Antitrust authorities would scrutinize system participants so that one hospital system or health plan did not unfairly dominate an important market. Transparent Pricing.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
former shoppers receiving more appealing offers than the latter group. This might cause concerns of inequitable treatment from the point of view of your "best" shoppers. Third, as every shopper encounters a set of View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
license their patents. Such patents are known as standard-essential patents (SEPs). And it behooves the patent owners to charge fees to anyone wanting to comply with the standard requirements. “Standards are really important to US competitiveness.” Case in View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
prospects and declining oil price outlook influence the timing and pace of the Fed interest rate normalization? —Tongurai Limpiti (AMP 181, 2011) One of the best things about serving on the board of directors at a regional Reserve Bank is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
demand payments of $10,000 and up. “We’re not talking about demand for potato chips,” Spar added. “This is the kind of demand that becomes an obsession. Price is less of an issue than it is in other markets.” Despite the classic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
to develop the customer, the relationship, and sales, the price piece will be one of many points, most of which they’re aligned on.” Research Associate Knebel points out that while Tom Muccio’s approach to... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
phenomenon. Specifically, we restricted the comparative advantages of each as follows. Content from iTunes is legally sold at positive prices and downloads are immediate; downloads on p2p are illegal and can take many hours (or even days)... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
to the news of a new 13D. As the authors explain in the paper, “activists’ target companies tend to experience significant price changes once the activists’ strategies are released.” In other words, the stock View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
we offer a unique way of using the Internet to maximize efficiency for both the buyers and the sellers," says Priceline cofounder Timothy G. Brier (MBA '75). Brier calls Priceline a pioneer in a technique called "demand collection," in which buyers name the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
that the markets expect strong deregulation, and that impacts every other sector that is highly regulated in the economy. So you saw the rising stock prices of financials, for example, as well as energy stocks. The second effect comes... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up
vacation in Dubai. In some ways, this wasn't a huge problem—Bhojani was born and raised in the United Arab Emirates and had plenty of family and friends in the region. But he still had a lease on an apartment back in Boston—an apartment he most definitely was not... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance.... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
pricing and profitability toolkit guides managers in how to construct a demand curve, how to calculate the price elasticity of demand, and how to use these metrics to inform the process of choosing a price.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
common to both major corporations and mom-and-pop shops, and offered practical solutions based on his research. One case Narayanan used to illustrate his point involved a family-owned video store. Generally in the past, he said, as many... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
billion in disability benefits a year, Eldridge says. Gain Life’s existing wellness market has good prospects, although it’s highly competitive, “almost to the point of commoditization,” he adds, and the sales cycles can last up to a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49883 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? By: Alfaro, Laura, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract—What is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne