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Evelyne White
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
They posit, for example, that the war, by creating uncertainty in oil futures markets, has added $35 per barrel to the price of oil, an assertion they made long before the recent run-up in oil prices. Finances aside, the United States has... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
consumer inertia is a big deal in your market, it could be the case that you are not pricing appropriately,” MacKay says. “You may want to reduce prices to attract repeat customers down the line.” Companies... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
Laureate Eugene Fama that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles. Greenwood and his colleagues used stock return data gathered from a variety of US industries and a gamut of international stock market... View Details
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Gail Chang
into all facets of finance through a leadership rotational program. Then she worked as a consultant under the risk management & pricing function of the company. During her RC summer, Gail interned at an... View Details
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Aluminum industry: overview & statistics
Where can I find information on the aluminum industry? You may begin with the following market research databases: BCC Research IBISWorld Frost & Sullivan Technavio For quick statistics, please use Statista. Additional resources: View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
in space is the fundamental transformation of how it’s being organized. For a long time, when most people thought about what we do in space as humans, they thought of it as primarily a government-led activity. They thought of the James Webb telescope, the View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
A Summer Reflection
to leadership. In my previous job as a consultant, I was of the mindset that, if I left consulting for corporate America, I would never get to interact with senior leadership until I was much further along in my career. This was most definitely not true at Walmart.... View Details
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Cost of doing business
U.S. Energy Information Administration. International Energy Statistics: Prices and costs for energy, including electricity, petroleum, natural gas and more. U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service. Current World... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care
Innovation in health care is a national and international priority driven by demand for quality and universal access, yet it has proved very difficult to achieve. Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
information about fundamentals on the part of international investors, or to price pressure. Price pressure is a potential explanation because flows have positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49883 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? By: Alfaro, Laura, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract—What is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
arise when cross-price elasticities are estimated for a set of brands expected to be substitutes. These anomalies are the occurrence of: (a) negatively signed cross-elasticities; and (b) sign asymmetries in pairs of cross price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Frank W. Woolworth
Woolworth’s stores eventually raised their price limits as they accommodated increasingly diverse goods. Through both domestic and international expansion efforts, his stores came to number about 1,250 by... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
for positions of international leadership in research and education. Bargains-then-ripoffs: Innovation, Pricing and Lock-in in Enterprise Software Author:Ian Larkin Periodical:Best Paper Proceedings of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Robert C. Stanley
A talented engineer, Stanley spearheaded numerous technological innovations in the production and refining of metals at International Nickel (Inco) and continued to grow the company through expansion, taking advantage of low asset View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
That’s not helpful to companies, consumers, or economies. Related Reading: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership? The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications