Price - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

that it will require Government subsidy while providing price leadership under a nonprofit cover, will over time drive most if not all health care to the public option (as happened with home mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac),... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

Fast Answer

Historical Research - India

are The Calcutta Overland Prices Current from 1859 to 1864 and Industrial India: official organ of the All-India Manufacturers' Organization beginning in 1957. The unique arrangement of the collection brings... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

getting these organizations to pay for the service at full price or a discount and then provide it to the winning startups as an in-kind prize or investment? Assuming this activity will generate a significant amount of publicity, and as... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2015
News

Case Study: Sneak Peak

well-stocked shelves, especially in the larger stores. I suggest trying to add Trader Joe’s: great locations in affluent zip codes, more value-oriented, and lower price points, but still very focused on healthy foods, so a good fit with... View Details

Keywords: Whole Foods; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

19 Jun 2014
News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

manager in Silicon Valley for a few years before his green impulse kicked in again. In 2001, California was in the middle of a full-blown energy crisis, complete with 800 percent wholesale price spikes and rolling blackouts, so Dawe... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

pollution. However, in late February, South Korea had encountered problems with its mask supply. As the number of confirmed cases increased, many Koreans vigorously sought out face masks. As a result, the price of masks skyrocketed to as... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent with markets failing to properly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

given year. We provide a partial explanation for this statistic: a foreign aid windfall to poor, non-oil producing Muslim countries during the twin oil crises of the 1970s allowed the recipient states to become more repressive and stave off rebellion. When oil View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 15

business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The impact on stock price has been much less significant, and this could be attributed to stock prices not reflecting the impact on employee... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

themselves define the purpose. Share price and profitability may provide indicators of how much value the company is creating for shareholders, but share price and profitability themselves are not purposes... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

price of success; and, more generally, 3. The American business tradition. 1. Lord Acton taught the world that power corrupts. These giants of enterprise teach us also that power deranges. Think of the word giant. It describes someone... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

words of HBS professor emeritus Theodore Levitt. "He said, ŒBe unique, don't compete. If you can get yourself into a dominant position where you have price flexibility, do it, because you'll be a lot happier not having to worry about the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

specialize in different stages of a complex production process. This paper considers the pricing behavior and profitability of these so-called modular clusters. In particular, we investigate a possibility hinted at in prior work: that for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

deeply interests me in this space. But let’s talk about pricing. Snigdha, the price point you chose was about $3.99 a month, correct? SS: Yes, if you’re on the annual plan it’s a little less than $1 a week. BA: And Michael, yours is $5.99... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

consider potential partnerships with, say, Apple Wallet. Price setting. At Uber, a team of economists work on how to design and fine-tune its surge pricing system, which changes fares in real time and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way to not only get what you want,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

April 2011
Teaching Note

Carbon Trading Simulation: Green Cement Inc. (TN)

By: Peter A. Coles

Teaching Note for 911051. View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Trade; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Production; Pollutants; Price; Sales; Profit

Citation

Purchase

January 2010 (Revised October 2011)
Case

The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP investments of 2008, in order to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants. Students... View Details