Price - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 30

involved marketing tactic (Experiment 4). Further experiments explore boundary conditions and suggest that the benefit of cost transparency weakens as firms increase price relative to costs and when markups are made salient (Experiments... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

also—and crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

(diamonds) and have managed this resource extremely well. Working with De Beers, the government has consistently and strategically limited its sales of diamonds, striving to keep prices steady over the long run rather than maximizing... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

10 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to product management by the broad range of creative and strategic activities. I felt that product design and pricing were important determinants of success. It was a function that... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 May 2019
Blog Post

Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics

passive: the opportunity came and I took it.” But as oil prices plummeted from $110/barrel to just $40, advancement opportunities dried up and Kenya’s career pathway became much less certain. Meanwhile, she embraced a new hobby to occupy... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Apr 2025
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami

Memorably opened by Coldplay, the arena incorporates numerous sustainable features and even includes public transportation in the ticket price – eliminating a significant source of emissions associated with large events while creating a... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Venture: A Welcome Assist

40 percent of issues. For the other 60 percent, either you work with us, you work with your own team, or you hire consultants to help you get there,” Bervell says. “If we can’t get you compliant within the first month, then you get your money back.” The View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; photo courtesy Michael Bervell; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Books

implicit in the book’s title, the authors interviewed more than forty CEOs from both industry and the nonprofit sector, studied what successful managers do right, and drew on their own years of experience at Bain. They came up with four principles: costs and View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Dec 2010
News

Do Good: Eat Chocolate

of what explains Endline’s role today as mastermind and chief rioter at sweetriot, a socially conscious chocolate company founded in 2005. Working directly with cacao farmers in Latin America to ensure a fair price for their labor,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

like product attributes, pricing, and distribution. My vision of the future changed to product management in the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to product management by the broad range of creative and strategic activities. I felt that product design and... View Details

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Product is Worth the Price (37,030) Are consumers more likely to buy if they see the price before viewing the product? Uma Karmarkar and colleagues scan the brains of shoppers to find out. How Hormones... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

Markets don't just determine prices, they also determine who gets what. For commodities, the price does most of the work, but many markets, like labor markets, don't clear by price alone. You don't hire just... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

first refusal, but only a four-month window to raise the capital needed to head off Temasek's bid. Hilmi and Arifin Panigoro are considering a two-stage plan: a Leveraged Buy-Out (LBO) to be followed by a secondary equity offering at a share View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

little about why this sale surprised the auction community? Deepak Malhotra: Auctioneers are often able to predict selling prices pretty accurately. In this particular auction, actual prices were... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

planning by judgments about the fit between creative strategy and different types of media. Not surprisingly, we found price sensitivity to be relatively weak at this stage." The second step, however, which involves choosing specific... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

Alexander, Tatyana Deryugina, and Julian Reif Abstract—Economic theory suggests that demand is more elastic in the long run relative to the short run, but evidence on the empirical relevance of this phenomenon is scarce. We study the dynamics of residential electricity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

at around $450 for months). I don’t expect volatility to go away anytime soon, as it is still highly speculative, highly concentrated and doesn’t have enough liquidity yet. Most people think gold and silver have always been extremely stable; but looking back between... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

25 Mar 2019
News

Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club

woman’s need for wanting access—not necessarily ownership—to designer apparel, accessories and now home products,” she tells the magazine. What’s behind RTR’s rapid rise? The article quotes a T. Rowe Price analyst, who notes that a key... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Hayman Capital Management

By: Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina and Jared Dourdeville

In late December 2011, Hayman Capital founder and portfolio manager Kyle Bass was reviewing Japanese government budget projections for 2012. The projections appeared contrary to Hayman Capital's views on Japan, where the fund had built a bearish position. Japan had the... View Details