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- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor concessions. Manufacturers pit dealers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
we find significant price differences between institutional investors' tranches and banks' tranches on the same loans, even though they share the same underlying fundamentals. Increasing demand pressure causes the interest rate on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
data, is computationally light and allows for flexible substitution patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing browsing and purchase information from a retailer stocking over 500 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and solve for optimal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
challenges and opportunities facing small businesses, the rise of fintech innovation, and the policy implications for regulation. Martha Lagace: How do you define small business? Karen Mills: Small businesses are all different, of course.... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
distributors, although important and useful for a certain portfolio of products, are no longer appropriate for a different subset. How can you overcome resistance from a powerful channel partner, such as a brand-name manufacturer or a strong intermediary, over issues... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
why managers may respond to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results are consistent with the notion that the investor base affects corporate policy choices. Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711037-PDF-ENG Government Policy and Clean-Energy Finance Ramana Nanda, Sanjay Aggarwal, and Nilam GanenthiranHarvard Business School Note 811-026 What leads to market failures in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). We estimate with a panel analysis that pay-as-you-throw (PAYT)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
consulted with government officials about national fiscal policy. As a statesman and as a business leader, Odutola worked tirelessly to improve the infrastructure of his country. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407027... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
unfavorable expectations face an additional constraint: their prices and first-party content investment need to be such that low (zero) participation equilibria are eliminated. This additional constraint typically leads them to invest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
disclosure policy should focus not only on what information to disclose, but also on how and where to design disclosure Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.041 August 2013 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy By: Nanda, Ramana, Ken Younge, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
objective was "to gain insight into hospital problems in order to serve them better," in a market where service would make the difference since price disparities were rapidly vanishing due to increasing competition. The candid... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
School Note 706-492 Describes the basics of how to break down costs into productivity and input prices and then compare those cost drivers between competitors. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
revenues. Those are generally backward-looking measures. Then there are share prices and market capitalization, which are forward-looking measures that anticipate the value of a firm. There may be some debate over what is important at a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna