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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
flaws, antitrust policy over the years has had powerful effects in controlling collusion, stopping cartels, preventing anticompetitive mergers, eliminating resale price maintenance, and encouraging... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
framework for sovereign capital structure analysis. It is useful for assessing vulnerability, policy analysis, risk management, investment analysis, and design of risk control strategies. Both public and private sector participants can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
balance of power between stores and vendors who provide them with merchandise. "I think obviously the power should be shifting to the retailer," Petsch answered. He believes that with the pricing leverage already being exercised... View Details
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
last summer. In this real Greek American tragedy, two branches of the Demoulas family warred for 30 years, in and out of court, over legitimate grievances involving a lot of money and, of course, over control of the company. They nearly... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
of your own work that would be familiar to the average noneconomist? Merton: In 1973, when the late Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and I published the research recognized by this prize, option pricing was considered a fairly esoteric area.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
market. There are no national furniture retail chains, making market penetration easier. IKEA's location selection expertise and their established global supply chains enable them to offer exceptional category-killer prices that are... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
those voices and is going off in his own way. And I think Facebook grew too fast. A little bit like Frankenstein's monster grew out of control I think he feels trapped, but I don't think he's really listening. It's been said by board... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
consumer collaboration, in which consumers use digital media that lie beyond the control of marketers to communicate among one another, responding to marketing's intrusions by disseminating counterargument, information sharing, rebuttal,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
problems from (in)convenience to price to congestion, he says. “Robust computer control is at the core of a successful PRT.” The concept is well known—you have likely encountered automated, driverless people... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
through either internal or external growth," he predicts. The hope, of course, is that consolidation will heighten efficiency and increase a company's ability to locate new sources of oil, resulting in more control over oil supply and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
responsibility for their choices. But co-pays would be the same inside and outside of the network. Antitrust authorities would scrutinize system participants so that one hospital system or health plan did not unfairly dominate an important market. Transparent Pricing.... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
multiplied by a marginal Federal borrowing cost of 3 percent), eliminating any price advantage of Medicare. The comparison between the administrative expenses of private insurers and Medicare also ignores the fact that Medicare pays no... View Details
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
minimum wage increases in local communities, as well as subsequent restaurant closure rates. In addition to the results on restaurants closures, the research showed that minimum wage increases can stifle new businesses thinking about entering the market. These effects... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the exchange relationship and the dispute, the choice of contracting structure has important strategic implications. The Globe: The China Rules: A Practical Guide for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
Protection in a Converging World," the expropriation and its aftermath "illustrate the interaction of property and contract rights in a global setting, how corporate control is shaped by geography, and how multinational firms... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett