Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,498) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,498) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 44 of 1,498 Results →
  • August 2015
  • Article

Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision-Making

By: Uma R. Karmarkar, Baba Shiv and Brian Knutson
Price is a key factor in most purchases, but it can be presented at different stages of decision making prior to a purchase. We examine the sequence-dependent effects of price and product information on the decision-making process at both neural and behavioral levels.... View Details
Keywords: fMRI; Retail Promotion; Purchase Decisions; Price; Value; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Product Marketing; Retail Industry
Related
  • 01 Jan 2009
  • News

William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952

Silicon Valley’s burgeoning venture capital industry. Founding U.S. Venture Partners in 1981 provided Bowes the opportunity to help create, rather than merely finance, initiatives at their earliest stages. The firm has shaped the software, health-care, e-commerce, and... View Details
  • July 1991 (Revised August 1991)
  • Case

Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (B)

By: Samuel L. Hayes III
Looks at the company's plans for a new debt offering under the Rule 415 shelf underwriting provision--in this instance from the vantage point of the lead investment banker for the deal. The decision-maker must assess the risks of the issuer, the tone of the market, the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Related
  • April 17, 2023
  • Article

Crypto-Influencers Give Poor Investment Advice—and the SEC Is Taking Notice

By: Joseph Pacelli
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Power and Influence; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Investment Return; Consumer Behavior
Related
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

would intrude ever more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to. Instead, the transformation is unfolding on a model of consumer empowerment, in which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • News

Accounting for Real Change

prioritize environmental or social benefits in addition to profit, he writes. “Yet investors, as well as consumers and employees, lack transparency on the impacts companies make through their products, employment, and operations.” The... View Details
  • June 2003 (Revised August 2003)
  • Case

Pension Policy at The Boots Company PLC

By: Luis M. Viceira and Akiko M. Mitsui
In early 2000, the trustees of the pension scheme at Boots considered a proposal to move 100% of the pension assets into a bond portfolio, which would be passively managed. The Boots Co. PLC was a leading retailer of cosmetics and toiletries in the United Kingdom, and... View Details
Keywords: Performance Productivity; Employees; Asset Management; Capital Structure; Investment Portfolio; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
Related
  • September 2007
  • Supplement

Corning: Convertible Preferred Stock (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
Keywords: Stocks; Consumer Products Industry
Related

    Jon Staff

    Point Foundation mentor, and a Harvard Business School Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He earned his AB and MBA from Harvard University and lives in Brooklyn and Boston with his husband, Michael. Jon can be particularly helpful with: - Brick-and-mortar businesses -... View Details
    • 2001
    • Case

    Value Pricing at Procter & Gamble (B)

    By: R. Lal
    Keywords: Price; Valuation; Consumer Products Industry
    Related
    • July 1991 (Revised August 1991)
    • Supplement

    Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (C)

    By: Samuel L. Hayes III
    Supplements the (B) case. View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Consumer Products Industry; United States
    Related
    • June 2014
    • Supplement

    Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (B)

    By: Mihir Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
    This case is meant to accompany Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A) and details the results of Apple's Q2 2013 earnings call. View Details
    Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Republic of Ireland
    Related
    • June 2014
    • Supplement

    Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 Student Supplement

    By: Mihir Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
    This is the student spreadsheet supplement to case 214-085, Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A). View Details
    Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Republic of Ireland
    Related
    • Web

    Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

    HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2013
    • News

    14 for '14

    consumer data, expect social platforms to grab media dollars from TV budgets and to drive e-commerce sales. Facebook continues to grow but look for Google to get more aggressive by leveraging YouTube and Google+." —Walter Delph (MBA... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
    • Profile

    Jennifer Hurford

    London, Frankfurt and Cairo, where she helped consumer brands and healthcare companies arrange short term financing for their suppliers, and at IDEO, a design consulting firm in which she designed new... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Services
    • 2011
    • Chapter

    How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
    We use an experiment to estimate the effect of the SEC's Summary Prospectus, which simplifies mutual fund disclosure. Our subjects chose an equity portfolio and a bond portfolio. Subjects received either statutory prospectuses or Summary Prospectuses. We find no... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Corporate Disclosure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics
    Related
    • July 1981 (Revised June 1987)
    • Case

    Hartmann Luggage Co.: Price Promotion Policy

    By: John A. Quelch
    The president and the marketing vice president are reviewing past Hartmann price promotions in order to decide whether to run one or more promotions in 1981-82. View Details
    Keywords: Price; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry
    Related
    • Web

    Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Visual Collections

    HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a... View Details