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- October 1990
- Case
Beauregard Textile Co.
By: Francis Aguilar
The sales manager and controller have to decide on a price for a textile that lost significant market share as a result of a recent price increase. Information on manufacturing costs and on the pricing behavior of Beauregard and its only competitor are available for... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Price; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Inflation and Deflation; Consumer Behavior; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Aguilar, Francis. "Beauregard Textile Co." Harvard Business School Case 191-058, October 1990.
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
With the demise of Circuit City in 2009 one would have reckoned that Best Buy's best days were ahead. Instead, Best Buy is working fiercely to reinvent itself: its comparable store sales have barely kept up with inflation since 2008, and... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
he's wrong.' I did. The rest is history.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “It's hard to be bullish on the U.S. equity market, which continues to go up. We're not going to be in a permanent expansion with little inflation... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
especially given the $783 billion in pump priming provided by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. “I hope these initiatives are successful in both accelerating the green transition and revitalizing the American job market... View Details
- May 2025
- Article
Argentina’s Disinflation: An International and Historical Perspective
By: Rafael Di Tella, Franco Nuñez and Pablo Ottonello
Di Tella, Rafael, Franco Nuñez, and Pablo Ottonello. "Argentina’s Disinflation: An International and Historical Perspective." Quarterly Review - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 45, no. 1 (May 2025).
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
suspect that the economists at the Boston Fed might say that a weaker EU economy suggests somewhat weaker US growth, since many US exporters depend on sales to the EU region. The oil price outlook matters, too, because it affects both the path of View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs
By: Alberto Cavallo, Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez
This paper examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major... View Details
Cavallo, Alberto, Paola Llamas, and Franco Vazquez. "Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs." Working Paper, April 2025.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from U.S. Trade Policy
By: Alberto Cavallo, Gita Gopinath, Brent Neiman and Jenny Tang
We use micro data collected at the border and the store to characterize the price impact of recent US trade policy on importers, exporters, and consumers. At the border, import tariff passthrough is much higher than exchange rate passthrough. Chinese exporters did not... View Details
Keywords: Trade Policy; Tariffs; Exchange Rate Passthrough; Economics; Trade; Policy; Inflation and Deflation; United States; China
Cavallo, Alberto, Gita Gopinath, Brent Neiman, and Jenny Tang. "Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from U.S. Trade Policy." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26396, October 2019. (Revised June 2020. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-041, October 2019)
- Portrait Project
Bismah Rahmat
question – the GDP of Burkina Faso or the science behind cosmic inflation – and unequivocally, he’d know the answer. He did mental math faster than I could punch numbers into a calculator. In my father’s final days, his brain could no... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and financial pain, high View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
What’s next in finance? Is bitcoin an inflation shield? What’s your favorite weightlifting exercise? Lauren Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently answered these and other... View Details
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from US Trade Policy
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
Argentina, multiple business leaders explained how they were obliged to adopt a short-term decision horizon in response to policy fluctuations, macroeconomic instability and high inflation rates. “Volatility,” one business leader noted,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
How the US’s Inflation Reduction Act has opened new business opportunities across multiple sectors Re: Julia Brady (MBA 1997); Christian Weeks (MBA 2010); Matt Arnold (MBA 1995); Heather March Takle (MBA 2006); Monica Varman (MBA 2016);... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world
influence by controlling for those “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies. The findings show that social influence accounts for more than 25 percent of all mobile app adoptions. The research also highlights an important risk: If homophily is not removed as a factor, it can... View Details
- July 1986
- Article
Inflation, Uncertainty and Investment
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and R. S. Ruback
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and R. S. Ruback. "Inflation, Uncertainty and Investment." Journal of Finance 41, no. 3 (July 1986): 657–668.
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.