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- 10 May 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Consumer Inertia and Market Power
Keywords: by Alexander MacKay and Marc Remer
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs the University’s Center... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
six-story, mixed-use building will soon rise above the dirt and gravel. The ground floor will feature an Afrocentric bookstore-café where customers can peruse books by African authors while sipping hibiscus tea and baobab juice. (Dlodlo,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurs (Co-) Working in Close Proximity: Impacts on Technology Adoption and Startup Performance Outcomes
- 20 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Bright Side of Patents
- 26 Nov 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Demand Estimation in Models of Imperfect Competition
Keywords: by Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds
- December 2020
- Teaching Plan
Scaling Well by Doing Good: Motivating Talent at b.good
By: Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Alexander Rohe
- 04 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
much as they did." Instead, markups—the difference between prices charged at checkout and the marginal costs incurred by a company in order to make a product—climbed about 25 percent between 2006 and 2019, according to research View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes
businesses need to know in 2024. Alexander MacKay: Focus on finding balance Since 2021, as companies faced supply shocks and changes to demand in an inflationary period, executives have increasingly focused on consumer price elasticities.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020; and raised $4.5 million in seed funding three months later. Foodology... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
An Invitation to Market Design
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- 21 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
unpromising situation stepped Alexander Hamilton, an orphaned, illegitimate (and brilliant) native of the West Indies who grew up in St. Croix and in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, along with Swiss-born Albert... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration... View Details