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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Users will learn how to produce and interpret demand curves and calculate the price elasticity of demand. The concepts of revenue, costs, contribution margin, gross margin, and net income will be introduced to inform profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
about it, Ramanna continues. "We are dealing with something that is outside the price system, which makes accountants very uncomfortable. And outside the price system there is no common basis of... View Details
- August 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Teaching Note
The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for 711410. View Details
- 2013
- Chapter
The Design of Online Advertising Markets
By: Benjamin Edelman
Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it was clicked, the number of sales that... View Details
Keywords: Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Online Advertising; Price; Market Design; Measurement and Metrics; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web
Edelman, Benjamin. "The Design of Online Advertising Markets." Chap. 15 in The Handbook of Market Design, edited by Nir Vulkan, Alvin E. Roth, and Zvika Neeman. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
to lose money or power should the status quo be overturned." What kind of money and power stands to be lost, and by whom? How did we get to this homogenized pricing of the present insurance system in the first place? A: Homogenized... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
from the Working Paper.Ann Cullen: How is your system different than traditional mutual fund rating systems? Cohen: Our method takes advantage of a wealth of previously unexploited information about fund holdings. Standard metrics rate... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
dynamic capture of these metrics via our new electronic health record (EHR) was developed at our institution. Methods. Contemporary breast cancer literature on treatment options, expected outcomes, and potential complications was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
of eating at the restaurant, suggesting that a restaurant’s reputation was far more important than menu prices in determining ultimate survival. (On Yelp, the correlation between price and reputation is also... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
this category has lower performance along traditional metrics but offers new benefits around convenience, customization, and simplicity that fit squarely with a customer's behavior patterns and priorities. The business model supports... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
goals, strategies, operational plans, and metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of a culture of health effort. Coordination of the effort at the top can include chief human resources executives, chief medical officers, chief... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53530 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Asset Price Dynamics in Partially Segmented Markets By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Gordon Y. Liao Abstract—We develop a model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
successfully. Megibow's team investigated the reason for the failures, again using Web metrics data and server log files throughout the process. Apparently, the "Company" field under the customer's name was causing a problem.... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on management practices across the world? Read the paper: http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/611/index.html Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to take notice, prices for pieces... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
selection, and performance management. Pricing. Pricing is the moment of truth in most businesses. A lot of business strategy is, arguably, just talk until you do or do not extract a price with customers.... View Details
- 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
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
latent or explicit. It involves branding these products and services, communicating their benefits to intermediaries and end consumers, and distributing them. All of these activities involve value creation. In return, producers extract value through the View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
stock price doing OK? "It was a 10-minute conversation, and that was that," Kaufman says. These days, the assessment is usually much more wide-spread, taking into account both quantitative and qualitative View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace