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- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
When a company sets a price for a product, shoppers typically have no idea what it costs to produce that item. But it turns out that consumers reward efforts to lay out these figures—to deconstruct the price tag. In fact, new research... View Details
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Jeremy Andrus
about. That’s because last year he was named president and CEO of Skullcandy, an edgily hip global company that does business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
The price tag is evolving. It wasn't long ago that potential buyers had only to contemplate a single figure on a price tag—Mattress $799. But increasingly consumers are being presented with "partitioned" prices. Look at your monthly cable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
discuss the spread of mutual funds to Asia, Europe, and Latin America; compare them with other investment vehicles like hedge funds; and show how to sort mutual funds by categories and subcategories based on security type and investment objective. Moving Forward: The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
years, including health care and consumer goods," he says. "If we don't think of new ways to finance and save for school today, we're going to be in a world of hurt 15 years from now." —Julia Hanna View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A veteran of several high-level... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Illustration by James Steinberg Illustration by James Steinberg Picture today’s conscious consumer pulling on a fresh organic cotton tee shirt, then driving their hybrid or electric vehicle to the grocery store to pack reusable shopping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention,... View Details
Philip Lehman
Lehman was responsible for forming a profitable alliance with Goldman, Sachs that marked the beginning of a new type of investment house. Together they managed 114 negotiated offerings for 56 issuers. Their premiere interest was on the View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Households' Willingness to Pay for 'Green' Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic Cotton Sportswear
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Michael Crooke, Forest L. Reinhardt and Vishal Vasishth
To shed light on individuals' willingness to pay for "green" goods (i.e., goods that are supposed to have lower adverse environmental impacts either in production or in use), we study data from the introduction by Patagonia, Inc., of organic cotton sportswear in the... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Michael Crooke, Forest L. Reinhardt, and Vishal Vasishth. "Households' Willingness to Pay for 'Green' Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic Cotton Sportswear." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 203–233.
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
in a digitally-transformed economy. “All of these decisions would be easy to make if I knew what consumer demand will be. The problem is that I have a lot of uncertainty in demand” All retailers face tricky tactical decisions related to... View Details
Andrzej Baraniak
Andrzej is a cofounder of Albert, a direct to consumer financial technology company started in 2015. Albert has raised over $200 million to date, has over 1 million active subscribers and a team of over 100 employees. Before Albert,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
the time the go-go ’90s rolled around, Apax was poised for spectacular growth. The firm’s European funds, which focused on telecommunications, IT, retail and consumer goods, media, health care, and financial/business services, returned an... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
for-profit. She began to make her mark as vice president of business development at Novica, in Los Angeles, an e-commerce company that connects artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in the US. "It's an innovative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
to adapt it to an online environment,” says Ngwe. Their study gauges the effect of so-called search frictions that make it harder to find discounted items or require additional clicks by consumers to find bargains. “We want to see how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate of their favorite products: Whither the price and the quality?... View Details