by Marco Bertini - Publications - Faculty & Research

We present a theory of price and quality decisions by managers who are self-serving. In the theory, firms stress the price or quality of their products, but not both. Accounting for this, managers exploit any uncertainty about the cause of market outcomes to credit... View Details

Keywords: Causal Reasoning; Self-serving Bias; Strategic Orientation; Managerial Decision-making; Price; Quality; Decision Making; Theory

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17 Jul 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market

Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla

05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Why IT Matters in Midsized Firms

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti, George Favaloro, James Utzschneider & Greg Richards; Technology; Computer

23 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

Gourville and Ofek teamed up with London Business School professor Marco Bertini (HBS DBA '06) to suss out the best practices for branding next-generation products. "For managers, this is not a trivial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Aug 2020
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The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households

Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao, and Edison Yu

31 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

the relative rank of a group in any given community. A minority group ranked as the largest experiences the most discrimination, followed by the second-largest group, and so on, explains Harvard Business School Assistant Professor View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

25 Oct 2020
News

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

01 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

Systemic racism and discrimination in small communities can undermine a country’s ability to defend itself during conflicts, creating a national security risk, new research says. Marco Tabellini, an assistant professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Stereotypes and Politics

Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment

The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy

The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US

Legislators' Response to Changes in the Electorate: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

Stock Market Returns and Consumption

What it can mean for Morehouse grads to have loans paid off by Robert Smith

Time and the Value of Data

Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales

Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the US

Electronic Hierarchies and Electronic Heterarchies: Relationship-Specific Assets and the Governance of Interfirm IT

Price and Quality Decisions by Self-Serving Managers