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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Mercadal “We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the United States electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups dominates despite modest... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
think about the transaction influences their behavior. "Exchange norms" are defined by reciprocity—I get this, you get that. It's the kind of interaction we have with business associates or when we are buying a house or a car.... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Xu Abstract—We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where price promotions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
started the company in 1982, one of the founding principles was that although we need the lowest price from our suppliers, we will make every aspect of the transaction as easy as possible. We pay faster than anybody else, we don’t pass on... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
software—is similar to constant social influence: it increases mean performance but decreases exploration Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54901 August 19, 2018 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
five-year term as chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest commercial bank. He had led SBI on a journey of transformation from an old, hierarchical, transaction oriented, government bank to a modern, customer focused, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
was recouped through a schedule of commission rates on stock transactions by the firm's clients. These commissions were regulated by the exchanges along with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The result was high commission rates and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
1960s. Nundy attended boarding school in India and later worked there during college summers. Her years in India have caused her to reexamine her priorities. "For me, closing a billiondollar merger transaction between two large corporate... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
and the Array of Things: A Fitness Tracker for the City No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-050 Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal This case explores a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
especially those that incorporate emerging forms of social media, support that shift. Equally important, though, is the emergence of cultural norms that favor dialogue over monologue. The benefits that accrue from conversational interactivity include lower View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
and news following insider trades, I also find a negative association between returns around filings of insider sales and SOX. Overall, the evidence suggests that the prompt public disclosures about insider transactions mandated by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
shared transaction costs among its multiple sides. Using a variety of illustrations, the framework is then used to formulate general principles driving MSP design and expansion strategies: choosing the relevant platform "sides,"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/05/how-to-negotiate-with-vcs/ar/1 2006 pub Real Estate Prices During the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression By: Nicholas, Tom, and Anna Scherbina Abstract—Using new data on market-based View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices in physical stores where most retail transactions occur. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously collected from the websites and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
transactions and vice versa. This paper estimates the effect of competition and service quality on mobile money demand. In this setting, service quality consists of service reliability (lower stockout and system downtime rates), pricing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
big-picture question for me is in how we interact with other people," she says. "It's hard to come up with any business transaction you can do alone." The Tipping Point Of Animacy Specifically, Looser is interested in what happens to our... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
Acquisition of Abbey: Banking Across Borders Harvard Business School Case 707-485 Banco Santander, Spain's largest commercial bank, announced in July 2004 the acquisition of Abbey National Bank, the fifth largest U.K. commercial bank. This View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
operations are not well integrated across media. As a consequence, a frequent shopper may be given first-class treatment in the physical store but receive marginal service on the telephone or via the Internet. Retailers need to tap into the same product, customer, and... View Details