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- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
languages in many countries. We've been building that infrastructure ever since. Since we started, we've added a lot of technology to the marketplace over time and utilized the World Wide Web. And we've changed the pricing model quite a... View Details
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Product Management - Course Catalog
executive, this course aims to provide an introduction to product management and expose students to key product development and growth strategies so they can build, optimize and scale products following graduation. Product examples cover a range of technology products... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
country’s leafy greens are produced in Arizona or California, according to the states' Leafy Green Marketing Agreement, and transportation to New England can take weeks; FreshBox being able to offer Massachusetts consumers a locally grown... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
engaging in aggressive discounting, the price of butterfat had skyrocketed, and the CEO was coping with a brain tumor. Dreyer's senior executives decided that they needed to restructure the company financially. The day after they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
success, a story that has seen revenues multiply, share prices jump many times, and customer satisfaction become an industry benchmark. The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything by Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) (G.P.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
infrastructure in the world. What are the implications for their ability to leapfrog content and technical developments in this sector in the United States? Internet development in China. Online marketing and consumer behavior in South... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions about government policies and consumer attitudes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
regulation, consumer preferences, or technology change, managers in successful firms often respond with more of what worked in the past — a trap the author refers to as “active inertia.” When new realities call for new approaches, some... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012. In response to the announcement, its stock price fell 29% (its stock price had fallen from $77 to $11 in the past 18 months). The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences and to alienating consumers by... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
Innovations. His research focuses on consumer decision-making, especially in the areas of pricing and the adoption of innovations. How can a company balance creativity and innovation with the need for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
internal intranet, "thereby allowing customers to serve themselves through their own computers within their own organizations." Nolan also points to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's strategy of holding computer prices relatively constant... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
southern Africa, among the highest in the world. In addition, though South Africa is often classified as an emerging economy, it might be more correctly seen as having two economies—the normal economy of sophisticated consumers and firms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace