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- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
shareholders," says Quelch. "Meaning they'll be able to manipulate prices in order to control the speed with which tobacco users migrate to e-cigarette brands." That means that electronic cigarettes, which are now... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
also take an integrated approach. And even in the discipline-based foundations courses, we often look at issues from a general management perspective, which requires some integration.” The new curriculum comes with a hefty price tag. To... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
and new antibiotics—which are priced higher than their older counterparts to recoup development costs—have to compete for a share of that finite budget. In recent years, many large pharma companies have stopped their antibiotic research... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
phenomenon that retailers have also seen in categories such as home and fashion, but beauty’s more accessible price point makes it a natural space for retailers to experiment with the hybrid shopping model.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
well as to large community groups and their members. In his role, McClain will design capital products, and identify and negotiate agreements with capital partners who provide fairly priced funds for BrightUp’s users. He will also manage... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
alongside money from mainstream business malpractice. One common technique for moving large sums of illict money, Baker asserts, is falsified pricing in international trade. Invoices can be written to reflect one price, while still... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that I think nobody I know really understood," Light said. To illustrate his point about the interlocking nature of housing and the U.S. financial system, Light said that for decades... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
striking thing is the level to which new business models become possible once we price carbon. A lot of the most fascinating models that came up through the podcast have a core piece of the model that works, right now, when there's some... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
million, though the price may be negotiable. The other site, a former apple orchard of about one hundred acres, was acquired by a local bank through a foreclosure. The bank is preparing to list the property but has yet to set an asking... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 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
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
that merchandise would no longer carry individual price tags and that shoppers might be overcharged at the register. More recently, customers have expressed concern that electronic shelf labels could be used to raise View Details
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best” Think of the Bugatti Veyron, for example, a car with 1,000 horsepower that goes 252 miles an hour. "The $1 million View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the solution and one agent's maximum point increases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
supply expenses are provided. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55343 Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds By: Baker, Malcolm, Daniel Bergstresser, George... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
worked for Goldman Sachs for two years, took a six-month backpacking sabbatical, and in 2009 landed an associate’s position with Bain Capital in London. Although he hadn’t really thought about getting an MBA, colleagues at Bain pointed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the spark plug behind the School’s recent push into entrepreneurship. And behind Stevenson was Dean John McArthur, quietly determined to steer the School into the tempting but elusive field of new ventures, and willing to back people who were brave enough to serve as... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
of the nonprofit developer Hello Housing, points out that these people are critical to healthy communities: “Some portion of the housing market has to be free from speculation to ensure there’s a place for the people who are supporting... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
of scarcity has not been repealed by the digital Long Tail prices are set by demand, not the constraints of supply." Edward Hare opened an aspect of the debate that several commented on when he said, "The rules of economics have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategy and Business, and Business Horizons, in the past two decades. Topics covered include marketing and business strategy, managing product lines, pricing, managing the point of sales,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace