Price - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Dec 2016
News

It didn't take me long to realize I had won the birth lottery. Of course it would be satisfying to think that I landed at Harvard purely as a result of my own hard work. But the truth is, the financial and social capital I happened to inherit placed me on this... View Details

Lazy Prices

QuantCon NYC 2018 Quantitative Investing Confernece - Interview Video

Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995-2014,... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Perfection’s Price

MICHAEL KAPLAN (left, with brother and partner Nicholas) reflects on lessons learned and looks ahead to future growth. Michael Kaplan (MBA ’02) had a great idea for a start-up: a fashionable apparel company catering to plus-size women. But when an investor pulled out... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

18 Apr 2019
News

Mauricio Macri freezes prices

Profile

Hayling Price

For many fans of classic network television, New Rochelle, New York, will forever be the home of Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) Petrie, television's first upwardly mobile suburban sophisticates. But for Hayling Price, who is pursuing the joint MBA/MPP... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

January – February 2011
Article

The Price of Fairness

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis

In this paper we study resource allocation problems that involve multiple self-interested parties or players and a central decision maker. We introduce and study the price of fairness, which is the relative system efficiency loss under a "fair" allocation assuming that... View Details

Keywords: Price; Fairness

Citation

Find at Harvard

Research Summary

Product Policy and Pricing

By: Robert J. Dolan

Robert J. Dolan's continuing research on marketing issues focuses on pricing policy and new products. His research program encompasses the development of both cases and conceptual models. Dolan's focus is the proper utilization of customer input in the new-product... View Details

Fast Answer

Delisted securities: prices

Where can I find daily stock price data for delisted securities? US and non-US Stock price data for delisted securities can be found in the following databases: LSEG Workspace Enter a company name or ticker... View Details

19 Nov 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Lazy Prices

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy, and Quoc Nguyen; Financial Services

February 1976
Background Note

Pricing Policy

Citation

Find at Harvard

1998
Article

Alternative Models of Uncertain Commodity Prices for Use with Modern Asset Pricing Methods

By: Malcolm Baker, E. S. Mayfield and John Parsons

This paper provides an introduction to alternative models of uncertain commodity prices. A model of commodity price movements is the engine around which any valuation methodology for commodity production projects is built, whether discounted cash flow (DCF) models or... View Details

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Goods and Commodities; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Production; Projects; Cash Flow

Citation

Find at Harvard

1986
Working Paper

Price Competition with a Distribution of Switch Costs and Reservation Prices

By: Jerry R. Green and Suzanne Scotchmer

When there is a distribution of switch costs and of reservation prices for a good, and marginal cost of producing the good is zero, equilibrium in pure price strategies may (and sometimes must) exhibit price dispersion. Equilibrium may or may not exist, and there may... View Details

Citation

Read Now

Fast Answer

Producer Price Index / Consumer Price Index

Where can I find the Producer Price Index or Consumer Price Index for the U.S. and other countries? Producer Price Index (PPI) U.S.: Producer View Details

The Price of Fairness

We study resource allocation problems that involve multiple self-interested parties and a central decision maker. We introduce and study the price of fairness, which is the... View Details

June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
Teaching Note

Price Formation (TN)

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

Teaching Note to (2-205-076) and (2-205-077). View Details

Keywords: Price

Citation

April 1998
Article

Strategic Transfer Pricing

By: S. Datar and M. G. Alles

Keywords: Strategy; Price

Citation

Find at Harvard

Article

Pricing and Production Flexibility: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Automotive Industry

By: Antonio Moreno and Christian Terwiesch

We use a detailed data set from the U.S. auto industry spanning from 2002 to 2009 and a variety of econometric methods to characterize the relationship between the availability of production mix flexibility and firms’ use of responsive pricing. We find that production... View Details

Keywords: Empirical Operations Management; Flexibility; Pricing; Automotive Industry; Production; Price; Management; Analysis; Auto Industry; United States

Citation

Find at Harvard

Purchase

August 1993 (Revised May 1994)
Case

American Airlines' Value Pricing (A)

By: Alvin J. Silk

In April 1992, American Airlines launched "Value Pricing" -- a radical simplification of the complex pricing structure that had evolved over more than a decade following deregulation of the U.S. domestic airline industry. American expected that the new pricing... View Details

Keywords: Price; Marketing Channels; Consumer Behavior; Performance Expectations; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase