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- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
to the unrealistically purist view that it was in the business of producing only high-performance footwear for competitive athletes. Nike has since changed its ways, but several years of less-than-stellar sales was the price the company... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
tool for domination. That's because Russia needs the money. It can't scare away its customers. If Europe decides to stop buying Russian gas, Russia will be in big trouble." Is The Price Right? With regard to Ukraine, Russia had been... View Details
- 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 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
company's pricing strategy, merchandising process, and product assortments to support its own competitiveness and overall customer experience. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/113004-PDF-ENG Nalli... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
(forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. An open-economy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
creation. What's often overlooked is the fact that such value creation also creates losers—the customers forced to pay the resulting industrywide high prices. Of course, companies are entitled to charge higher View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 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
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
Venturing for Nokia. The result is reduced innovation, an emphasis on hardware solutions over software, and not much market pressure on pricing for services, several panel members agreed. Miner, of Orange, foresees a trend toward... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
use of the strategic text sequence prompted the AI assistant to choose the targeted products for recommendation even though they didn’t always meet the consumer’s stated criteria. For example, one of the machines was repeatedly included in the results even though it... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
The track record is well known and sobering for any entrepreneur: 90 percent of all new ventures fail. It's not hard to see why. Start-ups often lack vital resources, must compete against established companies, and have little or no track record with which to woo View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
company to increase capacity, despite high consumer demand for its economically priced two-wheeler. For 15 to 20 years, the scooter had a ten-year delivery period, Bajaj recalled in his interview. To those not familiar with India's closed... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
whether, when, and for which type of customer the introduction of a new channel helps and hurts sales in existing channels. Our framework separates short- and long-run effects by analyzing underlying channel capabilities. It suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
to choose the ecofriendly bulb, but they also reported that price was the attribute they actually cared about most. Next, another group of participants simply observed the choice that other people made: the selection of the ecofriendly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
the Internet," he concluded. "This will favor the cheapest suppliers and keenest buyers and thus hold down prices and inflation while raising productivity." Ever-changing Demands In his remarks, the NYSE's Cochrane... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
needs, design new products to solve customer problems, and motivate purchase through attractive pricing and heavy advertising, with the occasional dose of built-in obsolescence. An example is Intel's... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
may benefit from limited developer access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the structure of access View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne