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- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
the cost of processing large quantities of small customer orders. Customized pricing policies should be at the heart of any strategy to manage customer profitability. The company can set a base View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
cheeses won’t resonate with tech entrepreneurs. Enduring. Building a brand around renewable energy might not stick if oil prices fall for a sustained period or a pro-coal leader takes power, but the unique essence of a city never fades... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
These platforms provide notable benefits including reducing transaction costs, improving allocation of resources, and creating information and pricing efficiencies. Yet they also raise questions of regulation, including how regulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
extent to influence how policies were interpreted, in part because of the respect in which the company was held. The corporate reputation for integrity and competence was a major competitive advantage in this respect. A part of the reason... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51759 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization By: Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
perfectly—he got heatstroke, they missed a tour of the Vatican, and it rained for two days straight—the couple fought so much over whether the trip was worth the high price tag that the husband threatened to take the next flight home. But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
and the title of a second-year course he teaches at HBS. "At the foundation of finance is the idea that investors and managers act rationally, so that capital market prices reflect fundamentals and managers respond to incentives in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the structure of access prices of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2023
- Article
Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation
By: Jan B. Brönneke, Annika Herr, Simon Reif and Ariel D. Stern
Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the health care delivery system. Key among these was the creation of a reimbursement pathway for patient-centered digital... View Details
Keywords: Digital Transformation; Applications and Software; Product Development; Insurance; Policy; Health Industry; Germany
Brönneke, Jan B., Annika Herr, Simon Reif, and Ariel D. Stern. "Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 39, no. 1 (2023).
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
Stream insisted that their projects were aimed at fulfilling goals of the EU's energy policy (reducing the use of fossil fuels to combat climate change and guaranteed physical availability and affordability of imported fossil fuels). But,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
at least in the U.S. the average consumer is pretty unaware of these programs. Companies that want to differentiate themselves in this way need to figure out how to do so. If it involves a cost premium, how can that be translated into a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
connection between the present and the future. Current decisions are affected by what people expect the future to bring. For example, business managers set the prices of their products—at least in part—based on expectations. More broadly,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
110, a higher-end camera, and in 1954 the "Highlander" Model 80A, a smaller, more moderately priced camera. 73 Polaroid instructional literature offered clear and precise illustrations that showed customers how to "drop load" the negative... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
pay a price because their premiums have to incorporate the risk of getting into an accident with an uncovered driver. Uninsured drivers increase premiums for drivers with insurance by $27 billion annually and $6 billion in California... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of a range of micro estimates. We find industrial policy subsidizing either the R&D or the continued operation of incumbents reduces growth and welfare. For example, a subsidy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
against inflated home prices and requiring minimal evidence of ability to repay from borrowers. Politicians on both sides have been equally culpable in defining the American Dream in material terms, in encouraging Americans to live beyond... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
door for conglomerate business model Influence: Medium-High 70 1970 s 19 Deregulation of oil and airline industries New energy policies and programs Stagflation cripples economy Environmental protection weakened View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
the world's largest company, primarily focused on its treatment of workers. The recent spate of books on the company is no exception. Some are overtly critical, for example Anthony Bianco's The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Wal-Mart's Everyday Low View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Learning and Pricing for Varying Assortments." Shane M. Greenstein : Winner of the 2021 Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award from the Industry Studies Association for "Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in... View Details