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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
learn how to support these sorts of shared business models? If you were the CEO of an insurance company, how would you address the conflicts between this model (splitting ownership and usage) and the traditional, well understood, and easily View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
marketing companies to sell it. Consumers, he asserts, have much to gain — be it money, price discounts, better customer service, or products tailored specifically to their needs. In the current system, information that is gathered about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
little data available regarding other variables that would also influence the product’s price. “The company’s president came to us with the idea for a case because he was perplexed about how to price the new pile driver and hammer pads,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
she’s “sold 1” — as in $1 billion in sales. Baum is senior vice president and “Director of the Exclusive Properties Division” at the Corcoran Group, the top-selling residential real estate firm in a city where the average sale price for... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Back in 1985, when Michael Jackson paid what at the time was an eye-popping $47.5 million for ATV Music—and with it the Beatles’s back catalog—he justified the sum by reportedly saying that, just as... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
items, is about $35. Simon’s troops clean more than 100,000 pieces a year,” Heath writes. These higher volumes and higher prices helped Parkway reach almost $4 million in annual revenue before the pandemic hit last March. “Simon said most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and rehearse,” says Yu. “But when they... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
Specialty Coffee Industry,” coauthored by HBS assistant professor Peter Hecht. Tanzania has the climate and altitude to produce specialty coffee that commands premium prices in the world market. Yet, income from coffee exports has... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased options and lower View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
for example. For several years, it was the number one city for real estate investment. You would have expected that to change dramatically after the Brexit vote—and it did. A lot of European and US investors lost interest in London, but Asian investors filled that gap... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
of tent in use on some of the planet’s most dangerous peaks. Priced from $1,100 to $8,750 (for a seven-meter geodesic dome that can serve as a combination dining hall, meeting place, and satellite communication center), the company’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
four-inch-thick volumes of Moody’s financial directories from the early 1900s. And Anderson demonstrated the delicate work of making an almost invisible repair to a torn page in a Dutch commodities price ledger dating from 1719. “If you... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Frese's financial accounting class. I didn't even know what that day's case was but this was a supposed "safe class"—no cold-calling. Suddenly through my haze, I heard Professor Frese say: "Well, Mr. MacKinnon, perhaps you can tell us all how General Motors View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
off the top price of each item sold. Rogers' plan is to also split another 1 percent to 2 percent among key community members who help improve the design. How long did it take to build a game-changing transportation solution? Rogers says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
money. That won't work for the ELR. "The consumer we're targeting is not that price conscious," notes Camargo, adding that it's more of an emotional purchase. "When they drive a vehicle, they want it to be a statement about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Lewis Jr. (MBA 1969), George R. “Bob” Price (MBA 1970), and A. Leroy “Roy” Willis (MBA 1969). In commemoration of this milestone, four of AASU’s founders (Price died in 2012) reflect on their time at the School, the creation of the... View Details