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  • May 1999
  • Article

Banks and Entrepreneurs in Porfirian Mexico: Inside Exploitation or Sound Business Strategy?

By: Noel Maurer
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Strategy; Behavior
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  • July 2023
  • Article

Before or After? The Effects of Payment Decision Timing in Pay-What-You-Want Contexts

By: Raghabendra P. KC, Vincent Mak and Elie Ofek
We study how payment decision timing—before versus after product delivery—influences consumer payment under pay-what-you-want pricing. We focus on situations where there is minimal change in consumer uncertainty regarding the product before versus after receiving it.... View Details
Keywords: Price; Behavior; Valuation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • November–December 2020
  • Article

Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency

By: Bhavya Mohan, Ryan W. Buell and Leslie K. John
Firms do not typically disclose information on their costs to produce a good to consumers. However, we provide evidence of when and why doing so can increase consumers’ purchase interest. Specifically, building on the psychology of disclosure and trust, we posit that... View Details
Keywords: Cost Transparency; Disclosure; Field Experiment; Cost; Trust; Consumer Behavior
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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

@Soldiers Field

IT’S A WRAP Above: In December, Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih (with Harvard Business Publishing’s Dave Di Iulio) filmed a video on the topic of digital transformation at the Klarman Studio soundstage—one of three studios used for creating and... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • News

Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

imperative for climate awareness,” says Oliveau. Other keynote speakers included HBS Professor Brian Trelstad, who introduced a finance panel with an overview of impact investing’s rise over the last decade; UC-Berkeley Professor Stuart... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira and Thales Teixeira
Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and even... View Details
Keywords: E-commerce; Online Retailing; Friction; Effor; Search Costs; Price Discrimination; Consumer Behavior; Price; Search Technology
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis

By: P. Tufano, Nick Maynard and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
This paper reports on a small-scale survey of the potential American demand for prize-linked savings accounts, an account that awards prizes as part of the saving product's return. In October 2006, Centra Credit Union launched a prize-linked savings pilot. As part of... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Income; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Investment Return; Banks and Banking; Clarksville
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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • 04 Oct 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

corporate treasuries for their self enrichment." To what degree will entrepreneurial capitalism be the antidote to both managers' and owners' capitalism? Are we about to see a rebirth of Schumpeter and his belief in the power of entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Article

Unhealthy Consumerism: The Challenge of Trading Off Price and Quality in Healthcare

By: Kate Barasz and Peter A. Ubel
Over the last decade, healthcare in many parts of the world has shifted toward a more patient-centric, consumeristic model, marked by an emphasis on choice and a proliferation of typical consumer-facing information (e.g., price and quality data). However, while the... View Details
Keywords: Medical Decision-making; Choice; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Price; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making
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  • 28 Jan 2014
  • News

The Good Jobs Strategy

  • May 2013 (Revised January 2015)
  • Teaching Note

H Partners and Six Flags

By: Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina and Jared Dourdeville
Teaching Note for #211090 & #211096 View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Bonds; Investment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Making Big Data Fashionable

get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual analytics platform that mines... View Details
Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October–November 2019
  • Article

A New Perspective on Post-Earnings-Announcement-Drift: Using a Relative Drift Measure

By: Michael Clement, Joonho Lee and Kevin Ow Yong
Prior research finds that there is a delayed reaction to both analyst-based earnings surprises and random-walk-based earnings surprises. Focusing on the market reaction from the post-announcement window, prior studies show that analyst-based drift is larger than random... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; Market Timing; Behavioral Finance
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  • 29 May 2017
  • Blog Post

The Diverse Community at HBS

Before I came to HBS, I worked at Disney in a consumer insights role with the Corporate Brand Development and Studio Marketing teams. Tracking evolving consumer behaviors in entertainment was part of my job and I was fascinated by the... View Details
  • Second Quarter 2008
  • Article

How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross-Section of Returns

By: Malcolm Baker, Johnathan Wang and Jeffrey Wurgler
Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that when an index of investor sentiment takes low values, small, young, high volatility,... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment; Investment Return; Attitudes
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  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

(Studies 3 and 4), we find that dishonest behavior increased moral disengagement and motivated forgetting of moral rules. Such changes did not occur in the case of honest behavior or consideration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail

Keywords: by Chaoqun Chen and Donald Ngwe; Retail
  • March 1999 (Revised October 1999)
  • Case

Tufts Health Plan

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Nancy D. Beaulieu
Describes the introduction of capitation by a managed care company and the challenges of managing financial risk in the Medicare population. Focuses on the relationship between the health plan and physicians. View Details
Keywords: Health; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Risk and Uncertainty; Insurance; Health Industry; Insurance Industry
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