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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
and several years away from the Entrepreneurial Finance classrooms—launched an online version of the course through HBX, attracting students from around the globe. The experiment, as it turned out, was well worth running. He was, by his... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
management ideas that incorporate these principles. Book link: http://www.tobinproject.org/twobooks/pdf/New_Perspectives_Full_Text.pdf Priced and Unpriced Online Markets Author:Benjamin Edelman... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
similar to long-maturity fixed-rate debt. If the pension fund enters into an equity asset swap in which it pays the total return on a standard index of the stock market (e.g., S&P 500) and receives in return a fixed rate of interest,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to take notice, prices for pieces... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
on-demand programming. Priced at $39.99 per month, Hulu Live TV offered consumers a tremendous savings over traditional cable program packages and allowed subscribers to watch programs on Internet-connected televisions and a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007
Business School Case 707-474 In 2006, newspaper firms in developed markets were severely threatened on three fronts: the growth of online news, online classified advertising, and free newspapers. Schibsted,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
of employees. We show that employees rely on this information to increase access to credit for borrowers, provide more favorable pricing terms, and reduce the ex-post risk of their lending decisions. These effects remain even when this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
indexes between 1980 and 2002, according to industry research. Firms with median returns lagged indexes by several percentage points, and those in the bottom quarter actually lost money. While demand for top... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
online auctions). By contrast, consumption decisions about items purchased frequently via simple transactions (e.g., cereal) are easier to make on a trial-and-error basis and can be easily improved. Because these decisions are routine and... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
case asks students to evaluate the pricing of preferred stock relative to common stock at this time. As the case takes place during a period of considerable uncertainty in global capital markets, and conventional sources of arbitrage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
prior to coming to Gap. She said that when the company launched walmart.com, the first thought was to literally replicate the store online. The company quickly learned that customers weren't willing to pay shipping costs on, say, toilet paper. However, she said the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
into favoring their own products by adding a carefully crafted short text sequence to online product descriptions. The study explores whether marketers “can game these models to get the answers that they are seeking to advantage their own... View Details
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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
product or service over time, and in satisfying customer needs more precisely and blocking competitive advances. Cases include Evernote, an online notetaking app. We will discuss the company’s reconfiguration of its product line and View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
year, one of several new electives will be the course Distribution Channels, which Professor Rangan is currently developing. Technology The School's first paperless CD-ROM case, on an Intel TV marketing strategy for the United Kingdom, as well as videoconferencing,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
competitive marketplace with many different price points, including zero, the brand becomes absolutely critical.” Besides, he observes, those seeking to make money from yoga need to weigh the pluses and minuses of that authenticity.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
Strategies of Multichannel Retailers Authors:Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona, and Miklos Sarvary Publication:Marketing Science 30, no. 1 (January-February 2011) Abstract The Internet has increased the flexibility of retailers, allowing them to operate an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
"Clicks and Mortar." [Image: iStock] Related Reading How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? Research Paper Where Should We... View Details