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  • July 1991 (Revised June 1992)
  • Case

Retail Promotional Pricing: When Is a Sale Really a Sale? (A)

Addresses the controversy that surrounds highly promotional retail pricing referred to as "high-low pricing" by the trade. High-low pricing involves setting prices at an initially high level for a brief period of time, then discounting off the so-called "regular" or... View Details
Keywords: Courts and Trials; Price; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Product Marketing; Retail Industry; Colorado
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Ortmeyer, Gwendolyn K. "Retail Promotional Pricing: When Is a Sale Really a Sale? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 591-111, July 1991. (Revised June 1992.)
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

sector may be traced back to fundamental properties of the underlying technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-144.pdf Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

negotiators thrive in the face of chaos and uncertainty. They don't trap themselves with rigid plans. Instead they understand negotiation as a process of exploration that demands ongoing learning, adapting, and influencing. Their agility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

apply across the region. Let me just highlight a handful of those: Demand for management and management education is growing rapidly. Management (and business) is seen as a major force for change, growth, and prosperity. All of these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

for learning about what works in digital health. Recently, we have witnessed developments that would have been difficult to imagine just a few years ago. In the United States, we have seen massive expansions in insurance coverage for... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 02 May 2008
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

from investment opportunities in developed countries. Nari Kannan suggests that it is a product of "thoughtless consumerism ... (the thirst for cheap Chinese goods) ... and dependence on foreign oil," particularly in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that much of that same capital be... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

Products German craftsmanship and quality are famous, and according to Fear, German companies generally compete as niche producers, particularly those that manufacture high-quality goods that demand a premium price. In 2004-2005 Germany... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

forthcoming Abstract Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

in captivity? Three professors in Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it's a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 12 Feb 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

domestic skills market is far more relevant to the future of American workers than potential job losses through expanded trade with other Pacific-rim nations. Signs of distress The long-term structural decline of American jobs began well before the Great Recession.... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

proliferation of strategies, from those aggressively demanding change at targeted companies to others that function more like conventional value investors searching for underpriced assets to buy. Some traditional asset managers, such as... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

world (South Korea: 2 percent vs. world: 7 percent). Even taking into account the country’s population, South Korea’s number of cases per capita is substantially lower than those of other countries. The United States (with more than 1.7... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 26 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

2008 hired a neuromarketing firm to look into how consumers respond to Cheetos, the top-selling brand of cheese puffs in the United States. Using EEG technology on a group of willing subjects, the firm determined that consumers respond... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 09 Dec 2015
  • Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

the competitive landscape of platforms, Zhu delved into data from Amazon.com, which serves both as the biggest online retailer in the United States and as a platform on which third-party retailers can sell their wares directly to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

not possible for all people to feel that urgency with the reduced amount of one-to-one contact that now takes place" under more liberal work-life policies. It's clear that these issues are not peculiar to the United States. Several... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • July 2025
  • Case

Designed for Purpose: “Never a Failure. Always a Lesson”

By: James Riley and Andrea Dorbu
In 2017, Rihanna launched Fenty Beauty under LVMH, disrupting the cosmetics industry with an inclusive 'Beauty for All' strategy that emphasized accessibility across skin tones. The brand’s success was followed by the launch of Savage X Fenty, a lingerie line upholding... View Details
Keywords: Cultural Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Luxury; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; United States
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Riley, James, and Andrea Dorbu. "Designed for Purpose: “Never a Failure. Always a Lesson”." Harvard Business School Case 426-008, July 2025.
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Sara J. Singer show that the commonly accepted "analysis" approach, wherein great attention is given to identifying and prioritizing a large number of problems, is not associated with success. Instead, an "action" approach is preferable. According to their research,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

means to issue an integrated report is not yet well defined. At least five US companies—AEP, KKR, Southwest Airlines, Pfizer, and United Technologies Corporation—declare that they practice integrated reporting. Natura, Novo Nordisk, and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
  • 28 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

lived. For Di Tella and his coauthors, the situation presented the ideal opportunity to research the beliefs of those who hold property rights versus those who do not, all other conditions being equal. "In the United States, there... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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