Price Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

B2B supplier exchange. 88 This new service was named Covisint. Issues have plagued Covisint since its inception. First, the Federal Trade Commission worried that the joint venture may lead to "...unlawful price signaling or... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

experiencing a threat to their abilities, individuals who misrepresent their performance as better than it actually is boost their feelings of competence. We situate these findings in the literature on self-protection. We show that this “counterfeit competence” View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

revenues. Those are generally backward-looking measures. Then there are share prices and market capitalization, which are forward-looking measures that anticipate the value of a firm. There may be some debate over what is important at a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

preventing managers from wasting or misallocating free cash flow and deters related parties, including host governments, from trying to appropriate it. But is this always effective in preventing such misappropriation? A: It is true that... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

hesitation to treat companies in an unequal fashion. In the cell phone market, the Turkish government sets both minimum and maximum prices. And the prices set for Turkcell are different than those for Turkcell’s competitors. That’s the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

realm. The idea is this: There is a market logic, which has rational economic calculations, and an artistic logic where one is doing something for self-expression. So how do you blend those two worlds? Noma does it by charging a high View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

who did the invasion on behalf of Cambridge Analytica. And I just think that's wrong. I think if you’re a leader, you have to take responsibility for everything that happens. Kenny: What kind of effect is this having on other people at... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

long-term relationships, not transactional relationships where immediate price (for employees, salary) and cost are the only factors in decisions. Q: You and your coauthors spoke with 36 CEOs based on three continents. Why did you choose... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

Moving on to the specific drivers at play in our sample cases, we identified two powerful utilitarian motivations: risk-management and competitive advantage creation. Risk Management A common reason for engaging in cross-sector collaboration has been to make use of it... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

November 2017
Teaching Note

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426. Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details