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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
receive lower prices in return but also because, in some cases,firms provide better service. A: There are many examples of how firms exploit consumer personal information to improve online services.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Paul Baier | Baker Library
Paul Baier MBA 1994, PurchasingCenter.com, Excara Play Video duration: 57:53 Paul Baier, HBS 1994. Interview conducted in June 2002 Paul Baier, HBS 1994, launched several entrepreneurial ventures. His first, Compare.com, enabled customers to compare View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Authors:Liu Yunchuan, Sunil Gupta, and John Zhang Periodical:Management Science 52, no. 11 (November 2006): 1799-1809 Abstract We develop a game-theoretical model to show that in the markets where price consistency across channels is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
Retailers routinely swap out the products they display to customers. It’s called assortment rotation, and it’s a popular business strategy for many brick-and-mortar and online stores alike. Retailing trends such as “fast fashion” (think... View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
insight can help calibrate the optimal level of price promotion offers. Experience also reveals proxies: in tough times, some marketers use research results from Sweden as a proxy for Scandinavia, rather than conducting the same research... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
deep statistical analysis, just good data and reporting approaches. It is often encountered in online businesses, where customer clickstreams provide plenty of data-often too much-for analysis. One expert practitioner of the CSI story... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
the Boutique Online Shoptiques founder Olga Vidisheva (MBA 2011) offers all the technical tools and support a small shop needs to get started in the e-commerce world and a one-stop boutique shopping portal for customers. Thinking Inside... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
even seven figures because their expertise is just so valuable.” What does a digitization/tech economist do every day? Problems they work on include: Online advertising design. Advertising inventory on search engines is often sold via... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
Scott Cook (MBA 1976) wants to change lives through initiatives he created as cofounder of Intuit. These include the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, which provides free online tax preparation services for Americans who cannot afford to pay,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Transparency, the concept if not the reality, is all the rage in business circles. If you knew why a company charged a certain price for a product, would you be more willing to pay it? If your boss confessed her managerial screw-ups,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
The next time you need to do Career Planning or business research, Baker Library can help. With the click of a mouse, its eBaker online service delivers a trove of brand-name resources at little or no cost to HBS alumni. Career planning... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
explored whether bargain prices would counterbalance the negative effects of a high pay ratio—and the mandated disclosure thereof. Source: "Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios." The team... View Details
- 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 09 Oct 2018
HBX Economics for Managers
Gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy, whether you are an aspiring marketing professional, strategy consultant, or entrepreneur, preparing for an MBA, or just looking to contribute more to business decision making. Program Dates: October... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118087-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-010 Shindigz Shindigz provides party and celebratory items for various occasions and events through its branded online channel, through... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
view of the bubble phenomenon in markets suggests a question for further consideration. Is "collateral" damage from tech bubbles inevitable, necessary, and useful? What do you think? Original Article The recent purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook for a reported... View Details
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Adam Kanner
live events without cannibalizing full price tickets or hurting the brand, he could fill a huge market niche. In 2009, Kanner, MBA ‘98, started ScoreBig, an online ticketing service with a... View Details