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  • 01 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

million, though the price may be negotiable. The other site, a former apple orchard of about one hundred acres, was acquired by a local bank through a foreclosure. The bank is preparing to list the property but has yet to set an asking... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business characterized by the infernal duo of low margin and high fixed cost. In such businesses, View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 10 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

the future of his home, Abu Dhabi, one of the emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny, sandy, and dry emirate with a population of 1.5 million, only 420,000 of whom were citizens, was nestled upon nearly 10% of the world's known View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Back to the Future

$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

that their ex post performance is lower. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50032 Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

system of Asian currency pegs that some commentators dubbed “Bretton Woods II.” In 2006 Chinese holdings of dollars almost certainly passed the trillion dollar mark. (Significantly, the net increase of China’s foreign exchange reserves... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

dichotomy between routinized exchange (where the terms of exchange are established by a program of pricing and distribution) and negotiated exchange (where the terms are set through coordinated decision making). Most consumer research has... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

Working Papers Debt Redemption, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

prices, both of which were beyond the control of MME. MME was aided by record gasoline prices and ethanol usage mandates in the 2005 energy bill. U.S. ethanol demand is projected to increase; however, corn and ethanol View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Publication:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk. There’s an incentive for the private entities to hold as little capital as possible against their own loan guarantees, and they would lobby to keep capital View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 01 Feb 2008
  • What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

advising on everything from the type of auction to run to where to set reserve prices. “Tech firms have also hired economists to solve challenges relating to the choice of outcome of advertising, such as pay-per-click versus... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

cut spending. As a businessman, I know the money you don't spend often representsyour profit. In a Wisconsin vein, I'm working to change the formula by which dairy prices are paid to farmers. We are a dairy state, and because of a law... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

scale, these alternative players have the potential to fundamentally change the way in which small businesses access capital, creating greater competition, price transparency, and a better customer experience. Emerging online players are... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Liquidity Dean Jay Light began his introductory remarks by characterizing the crisis and collapse of housing prices as a test that has exposed how fragile the recently evolved U.S. financial system is. "Leverage, transparency, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

with procedures that respect rights and afford subsequent accountability. Some critics fear that socially responsible corporate activity encroaches upon the role of government and usurps authority reserved for elected officials and bodies... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

A Place in the Sun

words of HBS professor emeritus Theodore Levitt. "He said, ŒBe unique, don't compete. If you can get yourself into a dominant position where you have price flexibility, do it, because you'll be a lot happier not having to worry about the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
  • 01 Feb 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

invest only a small proportion of total R&D money. They therefore charge higher prices and pay lower average wages. An analysis of census data by economists Erik Hurst and Benjamin Pugsley found that companies employing fewer than 20... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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